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A Bright New School
Check out this video from GOOD that explore a new, creative type of education. Imagine receiving an electric drill to use at school—and the freedom to learn and explore while building things with it. That’s what happens at Brightworks, a year-old nonprofit private alternative school located in San Francisco’s Mission District. The school is tiny—just 20 students between 6 and 13 years old—but it's ...
Funding the Arts
Do participate in this interesting conversation on arts funding happening over at The Huffington Post... Early this year, Yancey Strickler, one of the founders of the crowd-sourced funding site Kickstarter, made a big claim. In an interview repeated across the internet, Strickler said Kickstarter expects to distribute more money in 2012 than the National Endowment for the Arts' entire fiscal budget for the ye...
Art Nature Walk
Check out this article from GOOD on an inventive artistic experience... Last weekened, on a perfect day in New York City, Jon Cotner led a small group of participants on the second of two interactive walks through Central Park. Cotner is an artist whose work centers on walking and talking. He’s co-written a book of dialogues conducted while strolling around the city, and in past projects, he’s linked lines of...
Are Musicians More Empathetic?
Check out this article by Tom Jacobs from the Pacific Standard via The ArtsJournal... Music education produces myriad benefits, strengthening kids’ abilities in reading, math, and verbal intelligence. New British research suggests it may also teach something less tangible, but arguably just as important: The ability to empathize. The kids in the music group joined weekly ho...
Engaging Audiences...a new concept or imperative?
Check out this article by Michael Kaiser from The Huff Post Blog via Arts Journal. The new (renewed?) focus on audience engagement appears to emerge from the sense that conventional arts organizations are losing their audiences to other forms of entertainment. Our audiences have the opportunity to be entertained at home on their personal computers and on television, to experience astonishing special effects at the ...
"Beer Is Culture" The Sixpoint Art and Design Exhibition
Beer Is Culture The Sixpoint Art and Design Exhibition Beer is Culture is inviting you to create an original design or illustration that successfully taps into this theme, "Beer Is Culture" and upload it to their wall. You may also submit your design by sending it in a private email to beerisculture@sixpoint.com. Tell your friends to "Like" your image, or simply click "Like" on your favorite am...
Cardboard Arcade
Check out this special treasure I found on KOTTKE... Caine is nine years old, lives in LA, and built his own arcade out of cardboard boxes in the back of his father's auto parts store. watch the video here--->http://vimeo.com/nirvan/cainesarcade...
