Resources

VIDEO & MULTIMEDIA

• *John Maeda: Talk on Redesigning Leadership :)
• "What can we learn from artists and designers about how to lead?"
• -->"Artists and designers have a lot to teach us, I believe."
• http://www.ted.com/talks/john_maeda_how_art_technology_and_design_inform_creative_leaders.html
• *Ben Cameron: "The True Power of the Performing Arts"
• http://www.ted.com/talks/ben_cameron_tedxyyc.html
• "The means of artistic production and distribution have been democratized for the first time in all of human history" :)  "The number of arts participants... is exploding!"
• "Ultimately, we live in a world defined now not by consumption but by participation" :)
• "The rise of the professional hybrid artist... who works not primarily in the concert hall, but around women's rights, or human rights, or around global warming or around AIDS relief, or more" :) "...the work that he or she wishes to accomplish -cannot- be accomplised in the traditional hermetic arts environment" :)
• *Thelma Golden: "How art gives shape to cultural change"
• http://www.ted.com/talks/thelma_golden_how_art_gives_shape_to_cultural_change.html
• She's the curator of Studio Museum in Harlem
• "Understand the Art Studio as a Laboratory; Reimagining the Museum as a Think-Tank"
• "Curator as a Catalyst for Dialogue"
• "Ask: Can a museum be a catalyst in a community?"
• "Think about the role that artists can play in innovation and change."

TEXT & PDF

Arts & Civic Engagement Toolkit PDF

Switch Book

Viktor Frankl - Man's Search for Meaning


NYTimes Article - Outside the Citadel


Out of the Spiritual Closet

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