Leverage the Crisis for Creativity!

"I do believe that sometimes it takes these terrible difficult environments to allow us to be more creative rather than less creative." -- Michael Kaiser

A great short little interview with Michael Kaiser on NPR. The highlights of his advice to arts orgs:

- Do new things, adventurous things, not just the old chestnuts.

- Be creative. Do more for less. Collaborate to cut costs.

- When you cut programming, you cut your revenue source and your ambitions

It begins...

I'll begin by posting the Richard Florida material that sparked this particular bugaboo.

The On Point episode.

The article from the Atlantic.

An interview with Florida from the same issue of the Atlantic here, and a multimedia feature here.

And finally, a visual aid of Florida's theories from the graphic design firm Alphachimp Studio and their PopTech program.