Inspired by the HBR article, “Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail,” Nancy Koehn offers these nine planks (and their sequence) necessary for leading a successful change effort.
VUCA is an acronym used to describe situations or environments with high levels of volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity.
Ann Williams, Founder of Dallas Black Dance Theatre founder, offers advice to artists starting out.
Members of the International Association of Blacks in Dance founders, Joan Myers Brown, Lulu Washington and Cleo Parker Robinson, talk about community and collaboration.
In our last post of this series on community, Jordan Reeves shares his moving reflections…
Ready to dance? Taneisha Duggan shares her reflections on the power of community and invites…
How did the turtle cross the road? The answer according to Greg Milo: thanks to…
Laura Gisler shares a beautiful meditation on what community means to her through these drawings…
Naomi Even-Aberle introduces us to her community: her gym. She shares how impactful it can…
Jaclyn Roessel reflects on the first time she felt like a part of a community, when she was 12 years old and had her Kinaaldá ceremony, in which she became a woman and felt the kinship of not only her nuclear family, but a larger tapestry of community members.
What are the qualities of a rubber band? Flexibility: the ability to bend without breaking.…
Sometimes joining a new community can open up new, magical worlds that you never…
Erin Salazar, an artist, muralist, seamstress, public art curator and Creative Community Fellow, shares what community means to her in this time lapse video.
Our community was one of interest and history and the rural/urban exchange informed nearly all…
The next time you fail, you will know that you are never alone. You’re among creative…
Charting your path simply comes down to four questions: Where am I now? Where do I want to go? What are the obstacles in between? How do I overcome those obstacles?
While at the Creative Communities Fellows Impact House, we were learning about design thinking. We were into day one of this part of the curriculum, and one of the fellows likened himself to that of a service provider and said that we all provide the communities we serve with different creative services. I raised my hand and said, “I am not a service provider, and I don’t work for communities, I work with them.” There was much debate about this. Several people said that this was a case of semantics, that it was just a different choice of words. For me, this is beyond semantics. The way we talk about our work gives insight into the intention and aesthetic choices we make when working with communities. There are aesthetic differences in working for or with communities.
Md. Harun Sheikh (father) and Sahara Md. Sheikh (daughter) who participated at “Doodle with Dad”…
This month has been about all things place. Where is my place in this fellowship?…
I think about the types of values that we promote when we celebrate an outcome…
When asked to choose a problem for this Creative Community Fellowship, I chose an environmental issue. Living in an agricultural valley, ranchers buy hay that is bound by plastic twine. This twine accumulates quickly and the closest recycler of this material is 980 miles away (one way). Consequently, this plastic twine is everywhere: wrapped around farm equipment wheels, in burn piles, piled in corners of fields, in birds’ nests and left in ditches. Eventually, it ends up in landfills, burned into the atmosphere or just left out in the fields.
In the spring of 2011, I was working as a Teaching Artist for the San…
I have somehow stumbled across a group of people who, like me, are crazy enough…
Farming metaphors guide my creative mind Each spring, there’s a practice in growing stone fruit…
Not too long ago in our past, though, you knew your community. They were faces you’d…
“WHO WILL WE BUILD?” This is the cryptic conceptual question that I posed at the…
Holyoke, MA is a gateway city bursting with its potential for growth as much as…
I’ve been thinking a lot about how space influences interaction between people and communities. The…
Perhaps, like me, you have a mental model of how community development or creative placemaking works or doesn’t work. Let’s talk about these.
Jeff DeGraff, professor of management at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan, outlines what it takes to make innovation happen.
Jeff DeGraff, professor of management at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan, answers those who say they don’t have enough money to experiment.
Paula Caproni, professor of management at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan, outlines the keys to creating high-performing teams.
Why do the arts matter at all? For some, the special characteristic of the arts…
The arts are not accessed through a box office or the doors of a symphony hall in Togo, but rather are encountered in the business of everyday life.
For many, the power of arts lies in its ability to bring people joy. For me, art matters because of its ability to do just the opposite.
Why do the arts matter? I think everyone already has the answer to this question inside him- or herself. If the answer does not feel immediately obvious, then perhaps it is just time to reconnect with art.
We prepared a report that documents the ideas generated and some of the materials used to help participants frame the issues and work on the solutions at our Summit at Sundance.
Linda Wood, Senior Director of the Haas Leadership Initiative at the Evelyn and Walter Haas,…
Last weekend my daughter and I spent the morning at the National Zoo. She turns…
Editor’s note: As part of our online discussion around The Summit at Sundance, we have invited…
Editor’s note: As part of our blog event for The Summit at Sundance, we have…
Editor’s note: As part of our online discussion around The Summit at Sundance, we have invited…
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