Art Incubators as Tools of Cultural Entrepreneurship: Ten Years On

This work employs a review of recent literature to determine if arts incubators continue to be an important tool for fostering cultural entrepreneurship in the US. It also brings up to date the author’s 2014 typology of arts incubators by examining the current state of the 43 organizations used to develop that typology. That assessment indicates that as the impacts of the Great Recession waned, so too did interest in publicly funded arts incubation programs and that the longevity of arts incubators is correlated with a community-engaged mission and strong leadership.