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An inspiring interview to add to your holiday reading, a conversation with Ursula K. Le Guin:

“Fifty years ago, science fiction and fantasy were marginal genres. They weren’t respectable. In 1974, you gave a talk entitled “Why Are Americans Afraid of Dragons?”

There’s a tendency in American culture to leave the imagination to kids — they’ll grow out of it and grow up to be good businessmen or politicians.

Hasn’t that changed? We seem inundated with fantasy now.

But much of it is derivative; you can a mash lot of orcs and unicorns and intergalactic wars together without actually imagining anything. One of the troubles with our culture is we do not respect and train the imagination. It needs exercise. It needs practice.”

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/writing-namele

Writing Nameless Things: An Interview with Ursula K. Le Guin - Los Angeles Review of Books "One of the troubles with our culture is we do not respect and train the imagination. It needs exercise." An interview with SF great Ursula K. Le Guin.

This week Creative Santa Fe's blog 'Three Questions with...' features our very own Yazmany Arboleda. The piece includes inspiring stories from at Yale School of Management and Carnegie Hall as well as other projects from the past 10 years of his career. Click below to read on:

Yazmany Arboleda - Creative Santa Fe I had the great pleasure of meeting Colombian American Artist Yazmany Arboleda at the Abu Dhabi Culture Summit last April. Like his work, Yazmany radiates optimism, élan, and wonder in a world that increasingly seems bleak, fractured, and hostile. He has been engaged in the practice of creating what...

Yale School of Management "uses art to cultivate community leadership skills among its crop of future CEOs." 👍
cc: Yazmany Arboleda, Gayla B., Elizabeth Thys, Elaine Dang

Yale School of Management Embraces Art With 'Espejismo' | artnet News A project opening at Yale School of Management today invites viewers to submit personal objects and narratives that reflect who they are.

"ESPEJISMO: A Festival of Borrowed Reflections" by Yazmany Arboleda, will be on view at Yale School of Management, Bekenstein Atrium through to April 30.

The project was realised thanks to the students and faculty of the School of Mangement and the participation of a comunity that shared their reflection.

Read more about the project on artnet: https://news.artnet.com/exhibitions/yale-school-of-management-art-espejismo-934583

When People See You, What Would You Like Them To Know? ESPEJISMO – A Festival of Borrowed Reflections An installation of mirrored art, will line the floors of the Bekenstein Atrium of the Yale School of Management, from April 24th to the 30th. It…

We believe that art is an instrument for peace and where we as people should focus our energy.

Americans for the Arts Action Fund | Petition to President Trump Following a tumultuous election, the arts community is asking what they can do. With so much change coming so quickly, arts advocates need to

Have a look at the video from our workshop with the Lower Eastside Girls Club! What would your puppet look like?

Paper Puppet Workshop with limeSHIFT This is "Paper Puppet Workshop with limeSHIFT" by Lower Eastside Girls Club on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

So excited to share our photoshoot from the co-creating workshop we did with at the Lower Eastside Girls Club! Here are some photos of the puppets we made with the girls. Video to coming soon.

"There is a fighter that lives within every [one of us...]

Illustrator King Owusu on London, diversity, and creativity

Our newsletter this month focuses on the importance of diversity & inclusion and what it means in business, art and community engagement?
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In Diversity, there is Beauty and there is Strength: February 2017