Category Archives: Creativity

Architect for Change

What a joy to attend the Inaugural.  The frigid cold instantly gave everyone something in common–staying warm–and conspired with Obama’s message: We were one, and how! Everyone in that ocean of humanity knew that the stranger pressed up against us was a source of warmth.  I’d say it was a good start.
Seeing the Mall fully activated, fully [...]

Art increases the sense of our common humanity

Author Michael Chabon, a member of Obama’s Arts Policy Committee, describes the critical importance of the arts at this moment in our nation’s history:
“Every grand American accomplishment, every innovation that has benefited and enriched our lives, every lasting social transformation, every moment of profound insight any American visionary ever had into a way