Arlene Goldbard, Art and Public Policy, Artist as leader, Author: John Cimino, Cultural Renewal, White House Cultural Policy
In Art, Author: John Cimino, ENTREPRENEUR THE ARTS, Leadership on November 7, 2009 at 10:51 pm
More than sixty activist artists, community artists, and creative organizers took part in a conversation with the White House.
The public dialogue on the arts and our national economic and cultural recovery is one in which all of us should and can have a voice. Some of our most thoughtful cultural leaders have been bringing this public dialogue directly to the White House. The exchanges there and elsewhere have fermented the drafting of new frameworks document for the arts in the context of what is being called “The Public Purpose”. The document is authored first to last by a brave contingent of artists and cultural leaders committed to the arts and the potency of their survival their value to all of us in a democracy.
Chief among these arts voices is Arlene Goldbard, author of The New Creative Community, and whose own blog site is richly steeped in this public dialogue. For my money, she is one of our most gifted and incisive voices for the arts, creativity and community to be found anywhere. I am, therefore, handing over the remainder of this blog entry to Arlene’s own eloquence.
Do consider adding your name to those endorsing the New Framework and, by all means, forward it through your personal networks to get the word out. Working together, we can make a difference!
John Cimino
Creative Leaps International
CS Lewis, personal, professional, resources, stress managment, time
In Author: Gwydhar Bratton on November 7, 2009 at 4:10 am
I got into an argument yesterday with one of my fellow Blue Damen team members about how many projects we should be scheduling for next year. We didn’t really resolve things straight out, but it did get me thinking about where the line is between doing enough and doing too much.
The first part of this argument is where do you draw the line between projects from your personal life vs projects from your professional life? For instance, this coming year I will be planning a wedding. A wedding is a Big Deal that will take up a lot of time and resources. In fact producing a film and producing a wedding involve largely the same resources and the same kind of time commitment. The only difference is that a wedding is a personal project while a film is a professional project.
The problem is time. As C.S. Lewis says: ” The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is. “ There is only so much time in the day and only so many days in a year. Do I choose to commit that time to a personal project or to a professional one? If I choose to only work on a personal project such as a wedding I lose my professional momentum from having films in production or in the festival circuit. On the other hand, if I commit myself entirely to a film and neglect my personal life then who am I but a sum of my work?
Is it really too much to ask to have both? Are personal projects and professional projects mutually exclusive? At what point do you begin to sacrifice one for the other? I don’t have answers for these questions. I would like to think that the line between professional and personal is not as distinct as we like to think that it is. I would like to think that my profession is part of who I am personally, not just something that I do during the 9 to 5. I would like to believe that my personal life is equally important to my professional work as the films I produce.
So how much is too much? To work in a creative industry is to reach deep down inside your personal self and to develop something expressive and innovative and sincere through hard work and collaboration. To separate the personal from the professional is what makes work overwhelming.
Money Education, The Green Stuff of Life
In Author: Lisa Canning, ENTREPRENEUR THE ARTS, Emotional Intelligence, Money on November 6, 2009 at 9:37 am
Money. Money. Money. We simply can’t live with out it, and we wouldn’t want to either. Money is simply in every fiber and fabric of our lives. It is that basic and deep to us as human beings. It’s something we need to survive.
Think about the things that only money can buy—a better education for you or someone in your family; medicine to bring health of comfort to a parent who is gravely ill, or maybe a beautiful ring for the girl you want to marry. Are these things possible without money—99 percent of the time, the answer to that question is no. Too bad no one has invented a “money tree” just yet. Sure would make life easier, wouldn’t it?
Yet as important and vital as money is in our lives we often don’t stop to consider the long-term effect our values and beliefs about money will have on the outcome of our lives and our careers.
Let’s face it; to a great extent, our financial resources determine what our lives will be like. The amount of money you earn effects most options and choices that are available to you: where you live, the number of children you can afford to raise in the way you envision, how much you can save for your retirement, where you travel, and what kind of car you drive.
Lisa Canning
David Cutler
John Cimino
Gwydhar Bratton
Melissa Snoza
Barbara Kite
Adam Shames
cyrielkortleven
Michael Gold
Tommy Darwin
Kate Siner Francis
Amy Frazier
Whitney Ferre
James Hart
lindaessig
