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ARTIVATE: A JOURNAL OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN THE ARTS 
VOL. 8, NO. 2, SUMMER 2019 

Editors’ Introduction to the Summer  Issue 

Paul Bonin-Rodriguez  
University of Texas at Austin 

Neville Vakharia  
Drexel University 

Welcome to the Summer issue of Artivate: A Journal of Entrepreneurship in the Arts. This issue 
marks an exciting step forward for our journal’s growth, reach, and impact.  

We are extremely pleased to announce that we have moved. Beginning with this issue, Uni-
versity of Arkansas Press assumes the role of publisher, supporting our journal’s technical in-
frastructure and managing our production workflow under the guidance and expertise of David 
Scott Cunningham. They have also given us a new look. Artivate’s co-editors and its editorial 
board will continue to serve as the editorial voice of the journal while the University of Arkansas 
Press will provide an online open journal web presence, copyediting/typesetting, enhanced 
communications, and more.  

We also welcome some additions and changes of title in our support structure. With this 
issue, University of Arkansas faculty member Adrienne Callander joins the editorial board. 
Adrienne is assistant professor of art and entrepreneurship cross-appointed to the J. William 
Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences and the Sam M. Walton College of Business. Our found-
ing editor, Linda Essig, will remain on the editorial board and serve as our editor/publisher 
emeritus, continuing to provide her valuable insights and wisdom. Finally, Jesse Hixson, who 
has long served as the copyeditor for Artivate, now assumes the role of editorial assistant.  

In this issue, we feature four articles each addressing relevant theoretical and practical as-
pects of arts entrepreneurship. In “Art and the Blockchain: A Primer, History, and Taxonomy 
of Blockchain Use Cases in the Arts,” Amy Whitaker demonstrates how blockchain, a technol-
ogy often associated with cryptocurrency, is emerging to become a viable tool for artists and arts 
entrepreneurs. Jason White’s article, “A Theory of Arts Entrepreneurship as Organizational 



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Attack in Artworlds,” uses grounded theory to explore how arts entrepreneurship results from 
organizational attacks on social structures and aesthetic beliefs. In “Artmaking as Entrepreneur-
ship: Effectuation and Emancipation in Artwork Formation,” Adrienne Callander examines 
how a key tenet of entrepreneurship – effectuation – combines with emancipatory practices in 
the creation of socially engaged artwork. Jeffrey Taylor, Mayela Cardenas, and Stephanie Ed-
wards draw on tax and labor data to propose a method for measuring commercial arts markets 
and micro-enterprises not subject to public reporting requirements. Applying their methods to 
the Colorado art market, their findings demonstrate the impact of arts entrepreneurship on a 
local economy. Finally, Mark Mitchell reviews the book “Artists Re:Thinking the Blockchain,” 
a series of essays exploring how this new technology proposes to affect artists and arts entrepre-
neurs. 

We wish to thank the Arizona State University for shepherding our journal since its incep-
tion. 

We also wish to thank our Editorial Board, who remained available to us throughout the 
summer as we worked simultaneously on this issue and Artivate’s move.  

Special Issue: Winter  Call for Papers: Detroit’s Cultural Renaissance: Re-
search on the Impact of Culture in Urban Revitalization 
The next issue of Artivate will be a special issue highlighting the role of arts entrepreneurship 
in Detroit. Artists, cultural organizations and creative entrepreneurs have been critical to De-
troit’s recovery from bankruptcy. The highly publicized rescue of the Detroit Institute of Art as 
part of the “Grand Bargain” is but one example of entrepreneurial work that has built up the 
city’s creative infrastructure in support of a vital city. Featured essays will be focused on, but not 
limited to workforce development, repurposed buildings, innovations to the city’s arts educa-
tion programs, and creative placemaking. Guest editors of this special issue are Susan Badger 
Booth, Professor of Arts Management at Eastern Michigan University and Mark Clague, Asso-
ciate Professor of Musicology and Arts Entrepreneurship & Leadership at the School of Music, 
Theatre & Dance at the University of Michigan. Submissions are currently being accepted 
through December , . See our full call for papers listed below in this issue. 

 
 
 
 
 

 
Issue Cover Image: Dancers by Jonathan Borofsky. 

Photo by Wally Gobetz, CC BY-NC-ND ., 
https://www.flickr.com/photos/wallyg/. 


