How to Have a Creative Life that "Pays the Bills"

How to Have a Creative Life that "Pays the Bills"

Mel Fords Medalta Artist Residency in Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada

Mel Fords Medalta Artist Residency in Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada

"If you want to learn how to sell your skills, your ideas, your creations or your business more effectively, then come join me for this important presentation."

"If you want to learn how to sell your skills, your ideas, your creations or your business more effectively, then come join me for this important presentation."

“I’m inspired to make art because I want to express and communicate ideas about human interaction and society. Being dyslexic I look at images in an attempt to understand what I can’t read. Creating art has become my way of communicating and expressing my opinions and feelings.”

Zoe Knighton – Janet Law Scholarship Recipient 2016

“I’m inspired to make art because I want to express and communicate ideas about human interaction and society. Being dyslexic I look at images in an attempt to understand what I can’t read. Creating art has become my way of communicating and expressing my opinions and feelings.”

Zoe Knighton – Janet Law Scholarship Recipient 2016

“When I was there milling about between artists and the corporate world I just kind of wanted to be at home,” she says.

“When I was there milling about between artists and the corporate world I just kind of wanted to be at home,” she says.

Vanessa Patea spent most of her summer holidays travelling cross country to the very top of the South Island. The highlight of this trip was a week’s ‘artist in residency’ at Lochmara Lodge, which is located within the Marlborough Sounds (just a 20 minute boat ride from Picton).

Vanessa Patea spent most of her summer holidays travelling cross country to the very top of the South Island. The highlight of this trip was a week’s ‘artist in residency’ at Lochmara Lodge, which is located within the Marlborough Sounds (just a 20 minute boat ride from Picton).

The Innovation Imperative: Where the arts, business, education and community come together

The Innovation Imperative: Where the arts, business, education and community come together

Wake up!—Be the process!—Learn the flavours!—Follow the fractals! Chaos and complexity theory offer insights (metaphorical at minimum) into change and emergence (“whole is greater than sum of its parts”).

Wake up!—Be the process!—Learn the flavours!—Follow the fractals! Chaos and complexity theory offer insights (metaphorical at minimum) into change and emergence (“whole is greater than sum of its parts”).

Creativity Crosses Community Boundaries

Creativity Crosses Community Boundaries

From Te Po - The Darkness, to Te Aro Marama - The World of Light

From Te Po - The Darkness, to Te Aro Marama - The World of Light