Dec
07

20 Rules for Starting Your Art Licensing Business

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Written by Art Licensing Coach J'net Smith   Rule #3 Know your skills. Art talent isn’t enough to make it in the Art Licensing industry. Even more interesting is the fact that you may do very well in Art Licensing for any number of other reasons. For example, your art skills may be good; they may even be awesome!  But you … [Read more...]

Nov
07

Creative Productivity & The Creative Theorists- Part 3, Csíkszentmihályi

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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...]

Oct
24

Creative Productivity & The Creative Theorists- Part 2, deBono

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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...]

Jul
31

NEA Research on the Value Added By Cultural Industries

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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...]

Jul
17

Mobile Apps at Work for Creative Entrepreneurs

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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...]

Jun
29

Developing Community Through Creativity

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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...]

Jun
24

ETA Top 25 Most Read Posts in 2010

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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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