My Ramblings
Emerging Habitat for a Creative Economy Threatened by City Budget Cuts.
This is an excerpt from an email alert I sent to my networks in the creative community earlier this week. The 'troops' rallied and spoke eloquently on behalf of this keystone project, we continue to advocate and the decision is on Tuesday April 7 09 at the regular...
Alternatives to Creating “Yet Another” NonProfit Arts Organization
When artists and creative sector groups begin to face the need to fundraise and establish a more organized and permanent structure for the projects they want to develop, the question I am most frequently asked is: "How do we form a nonprofit society?" followed closely...
Artists are a renewable resource.
Artists are a renewable resource. They often produce so much out of thin air that it seems like photosynthesis to me. And they seem compelled to produce creative ideas and objects regardless of the outcome, unable to resist some cellular imperative – kind of like...
Do silos need busting?
As I sat in a room full of creative thinkers, stimulated beyond belief by feeling connected and understood – hearing about the innovative projects that represented "Silo-Busting Strategies" from different parts of the world – I realized once again that there were...
Advice to an overworked arts manager
Here’s the summary of a conversation I recently had with a member of an Artist-Run Centre’s management collective. I sit on the Board, and chair the HR committee:
More opinion on the Creative Class
(from a posting I made to the Sirolli Institute Public Forum on April 21, 2007, which generated a little bit of a buzz) ....I apologize in advance for the length of this rant, but here goes.. The coveted Creative Class referred to by Florida, is that 'class' of...
The Creative ‘Class’: Did I Pass or Fail?
There has been something bugging me amidst all the ballyhoo about the arts driving the economy, the rise of the creative class and the cult of innovation. I live in a city swimming in creativity, stuffed with artists, overwhelmed with visual stimuli, intellectual...
Money and mindset and the arts…
money issues…. It seems to me that the people who were least interested in math and science, and perhaps who suffered failure in these because the methods used to teach them were not effective with us creative types, are the ones now wanting to offload responsibility...
Leading your own life
Leadership and entrepreneurial qualities are very similar. And career self-managers must develop these qualities in order to lead themselves in their own lives and livelihoods…. Leadership is generally assumed to be a set of skills and qualities that are applied in...