The Creativity at Work Blog

Consider buying art this holiday season. Click on the pictures for details.

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Why the arts matter

When times get tough and choices must be made, it is often the arts that lose. Why is this so? When compared to health or human service needs, the arts are often viewed as less important and therefore more discretionary in nature. But this line of thinking misses the [...]

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New research shows musical training sharpens the ability to sense emotions.
Makes sense to me. Music, especially classical, conveys many subtle emotions. Music and other arts help us develop our sense perceptions. Our perceptions shape our perspective and vice versa.
According to Dana L. Strait and a team of researchers at Northwestern University in Illinois, years of musical [...]

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In today’s environment, career resilience is an essential attribute for success, even for survival. “If you identify with your job or career, you’re in trouble, because that changes,” says Ms. Naiman. “But if you know who you are and can take a stand for what you believe in – your values – you have a ‘north star’ to guide you.”

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Have you got a solution for arts funding in your community? If so, I’d like to hear from you. I’m looking for solutions that help foster the arts in communities, (beyond government grants and traditional corporate funding)  that I hope will inspire my government, and yours, to take action, and contribute in innovative ways to [...]

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Saturday  Nov 28, 2009
Time: 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
Venue: Unity Church, 5840 Oak Street, Vancouver
Cost: $79.00 each day (includes art supplies, tea, coffee and cookies )
Registration: Please contact Bob Gault at ergault@telus.net  or call 604.941.2770
Facilitated by Linda Naiman
Explore the process of painting as a means of slowing down, becoming present to the moment, listening to music with all [...]

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Here’s a charmer: Animation using Post-it notes. You’ll notice the guy takes a few naps in between a flurry of activity. I wonder to what extent productivity is improved by taking naps.

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I’m amazed you can create art with an iphone:

From the New Yorker Magazine:
Jorge Colombo drew this week’s cover using Brushes, an application for the iPhone, while standing for an hour outside Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum in Times Square.
“I got a phone in the beginning of February, and I immediately got the program so I could entertain myself,” [...]

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