Innovating Through Artistry
While it is easy to look at this cartoon strip created by Norwegian artist, Ida Eva Margrethe Neverdahl, and see it for its "face" value, I would encourage you to look deeper. Ida shares a great visual story, in my opinion, about how we discover our "emotional" elephant and learn to ride it. ( For more explicate training instructions … [Read more...]
So often you'll hear an artist say.. "becoming an artist wasn't a choice but a gift". And yet, with as short as life is, sometimes we need to be reminded why this particular gift was selected for us to receive in the first place. Our gifts were not given to us for our self serving pleasures. Nor to torment us. Or to use for the sole … [Read more...]
How can we improve the chances that productivity will flow from our imagination or our creativity? For starters we need to think of imagination and creativity as distinctively different. These two words should not be used interchangeably. Think of it like this. If you can visualize something in your mind- the famous person you hope … [Read more...]
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...]
This list was posted on Don Griesmann Nonprofit Blog on 7/12, 2011 How can the arts grow outside into other sectors and strands of society? One way is by finding new sources of funding from new sectors outside of the arts who can appreciate and understand the value we can bring to other subject matter. The parameters for inclusion … [Read more...]
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