Innovating Through Artistry
How can imagination become creative productivity? How can artists fuse the work of creative theorists to their gifts to help others to innovate? So far both Basadur's Creative Problem Solving Profile and deBono's Six Thinking Hat Theory have provided a structure that is relatively easy to understand, adapt and implement. But with our next … [Read more...]
I spend a good deal of time dreaming up bold and unconventional success solutions for the arts. While these proposals typically receive serious consideration from some corners, there are others who emotionally shoot them down immediately without any rational thought whatsoever. It seems the closer someone is to a position, the more … [Read more...]
How can we turn our imaginations into productive creativity? How can we use the arts to activate others imaginations and help facilitate the transform of them into creative productivity? In my post Imagination, Creativity and Productivity I mentioned a long list of creative theorists who each have developed their own methodology for … [Read more...]
A few months ago, Lisa's Clarinet Shop was featured in Crain's Chicago Business. Crain's staff photographer, Stephen Serio, was assigned to take my picture. Besides the fact I totally enjoyed working with Steve, he is a really creative photographer, he and I really synched up around the importance of increasing the value of artistic … [Read more...]
Written by Lewis Whittington, appeared in Salon on Monday August 29th, 2011 Amid bankruptcies and closures, a handful of radical innovators are building a new future for the city orchestra. Strikes, closures, bankruptcies, record deficits -- the classical-music world has been rocked by troubling financial news in recent … [Read more...]
Press Release from The NEA, July 19th, 2011 Cultural industries are economic powerhouses and states have the data to prove it, according to a new analysis from the National Endowment for the Arts. Drawing on data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis, Arts and the GDP: Value Added by Selected Cultural Industries is a new NEA … [Read more...]
Written by Steve Hendershot, July 18th, 2011 appeared in Crain's Chicago Business. Email is so old school. These days, small businesses that are getting the most out of their smartphones and iPads are all about the apps: add-on programs that can help them do everything from process credit cards to sketch skyscrapers. Of the … [Read more...]
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