Innovating Through Artistry
We have lost our imagination. That's what's wrong with America. The leaders (or want to be's) of our great country have no vision or language to help us reimagine our world. Our founding fathers envisioned what America could be and devised a language- our constitution- for it. It was a brave imaginative act. It was through new shared … [Read more...]
What kinds of new jobs in the arts can we create? What combination of skills do we need to unlock new economic opportunities for us and to change society's perceptions of what value the arts deliver? How can we add more to GDP by building hybrid careers that transmit and translate all of our skills across all sectors and … [Read more...]
Long ago, so it seems, I met Barry Moltz for lunch at Wishbone in Chicago. I was on my own hunt and seek mission to figure out who I wanted to be when I grew up. Having sold my businesses and trying to figure out which dragon I wanted to slay next, I asked to buy serial entrepreneur Barry Moltz lunch and found a new hero. Barry is an … [Read more...]
Written by Aimee Groth | Jul. 3, 2011, 6:08 PM | From Open Forum: With all the press coverage devoted to new high tech company founders, you'd think that young entrepreneurs are the only successful entrepreneurs. But the latest research suggests otherwise. According to the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, people over … [Read more...]
There is an unspoken social contract the world has made with artists. It goes something like this: "We love what you do, you inspire us. But you don't live in the "real" world so you couldn't possibly economically revive us." If your an artist reading this post, and you truly wish to enter into other sectors of society in meaningful ways … [Read more...]
This video was created from a workshop on developing community through creativity at The Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at The University of Illinois. This is a very worthy 7 minutes. http://youtu.be/OfrRd5IMRVs … [Read more...]
Our 2010 most read posts are interestingly some oldies but goodies. From our top 25, 14 are from 2007 through 2009. Our oldest post from 2007, which also happens to be our #1 post, is about my journey writing a book. So for all you writers out there, this list just goes to show you that it's important to get your writing our there … [Read more...]
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