Artists are natural entrepreneurs. In general, they are innovative, enthusiastic, hard-working, highly intelligent, and resourceful. That last attribute is the subject of this post…resourcefulness.
Entrepreneurs come up with a great idea, then go out and find the resources or develop the capabilities to “make it happen.” Or, they look at what they already have available and [...]
Founded in 2002, Flying Art provides opportunities for youth from around the world to share their culture through the exchange of their own artwork. Similar to the idea of pen-pals, Flying Art matches three schools from different countries per exchange to create and share artwork with one another, thereby inspiring an open exchange of ideas and cultural backgrounds.
Natalie Angier writes in the Science section of this morning’s NY Times about the evolutionary origins of art. Specifically, she highlights a “sweeping thesis” proposed by scholar Ellen Dissanayake. I’ve always been drawn to searches for root causes, so this kind of stuff fascinates me:
What might that deep-seated purpose of art-making be? To contemporary [...]
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