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Oklahoma: A New Frontier for Arts, Culture, & Innovation
Price Tower Arts Center One of the wonderful things I’m re-discovering about Oklahoma is that art, culture, and innovation aren’t just thriving in OKC, but all across the state! Tulsa, the state’s...
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Looking for Examples of Innovation Outside the Arts
Jaime Austin ZER01 is an arts organization based in Silicon Valley, a place renowned globally as a hub of entrepreneurship and innovation. So lately I’ve been pondering the questions: How can the arts...
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Growing Future Artists (& Vegetables): Lessons from a Community Garden Project
The 53rd Street Community Garden The goal of the 53rd Street Community Garden was to create a sustainable community garden with colorful artistic components and outdoor classrooms. Students would...
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Entertainment is Survival (and a crowbar?)
Robbie Q. Telfer I often encounter so-called “serious” artists who scoff at the idea that what they’re doing is entertaining. Art should raise up its audience, not stoop to meet them. I certainly agree...
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The Nexus of “The Arts” and “Entertainment”
Angela Harris I read Robbie Telfer’s insightful post about the tie between the arts and entertainment. I am reminded of a conversation that I recently had about the effect that So You Think You Can...
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Why I Do the Work: Virtues, Bones, & Tolerance
Naomi Natale Last September, I went to East San Jose Elementary School here in my hometown of Albuquerque, NM. While there I spoke with over 200 fourth and fifth grade students in six classes. For the...
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Diversity: Not Just for White Guilt Anymore
Robbie Q. Telfer An important principal to the Encyclopedia Show is diversity. I had mentioned earlier diversity of artistic genre – we try to get not only poets, but solo performance artists, visual...
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From Art Auctions to Art Lotteries: A Better Way to Fundraise?
June Rogers Reading the blog entry by Stephanie Evans Hanson that focused on the beginnings of new methods through close observance of our conversations reminded me that changes employed by Fairbanks...
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The Simplicity Approach
Shelby Morrison Hello again! It’s been so exciting to participate in this blog salon; to connect, to engage, and to exchange. Writing and thinking about innovation is interesting. I think on an...
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Leadership: Through the Eyes of Youth
Angela Harris Prior to starting my company, I worked at a couple of places, which will remain nameless, where leadership meant ruling the company through one set of eyes. On one occasion, I was told by...
View ArticleHaving a Girl Living in a Bubble Inside My Apartment for a Week Changed My Life
Art Really Can Change Your Life! from The Pink Line Project on Vimeo. “For one week, artist Agnes Bolt moved into the home of the very sociable and curious Philippa Hughes to playfully explore the...
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Blog Salon Reflections: Art, Enterprise, & Equity
Ebony McKinney “We are witnessing new practices and challenges to old assumptions.” ~ Ben Cameron during the closing keynote at this year’s Americans for the Arts Annual Convention. A sector...
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Blog Salon Wrap-Up: Leading Through Innovation
Stephanie Evans Hanson Innovation happens at the local level. Despite budget cuts and debt ceiling debates that currently seem to take over our news media, we have seen strong examples of impactful...
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Conversations with a Curator: Douglas Laustsen (Part 1)
Ian David Moss In the spirit of the recent conversation on ArtsBlog, Emerging Ideas: Seeking and Celebrating the Spark of Innovation, I thought it would be interesting to talk to a curator about how he...
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Conversations with a Curator: Douglas Laustsen (Part 2)
Ian David Moss In the spirit of the recent conversation on ArtsBlog, Emerging Ideas: Seeking and Celebrating the Spark of Innovation, I thought it would be interesting to talk to a curator about how he...
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