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arts & business council®
Creativity Connection
News
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University of Pittsburgh Teams Up with Carnegie Art Museum and The Andy Warhol Museum
July 2007—Through the recently launched Art and Medicine program, medical students at the University of Pittsburgh will hone their visual thinking and observational skills by studying art at Carnegie Museum of Art and The Andy Warhol Museum. The four-week course will introduce students to a systematic process for approaching a work of art for the first time and determining its story by examining point of view, context, and the effect of framing or presentation on analysis and practice. The museum/medical school partnership was inspired by similar collaborations between Yale Center for British Art and Yale University Medical School, and the Frick Collection and Weill Cornell Medical School. Visit the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center website for more information.
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Conductor and Composer Rob Kapilow joins Creativity Connection!
July 2007—Rob Kapilow—nationally recognized composer, conductor, National Public Radio and television commentator, and creator of the "What Makes It Great®" brand—brings with him more than 15 years of experience in creating interactive programs that make the listening principles behind great music applicable to diverse corporate settings. For more information, please visit the creativity resources section of our website, or visit http://www.robkapilow.com/.
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Creativity Connection Showcased in Arts and Business Event
November 2006—Creativity Connection partnered with the Entrepreneurs Organization, a unique community of highly successful entrepreneurs, to present an Evening of Arts and Business on November 15th at the historic Players’ Club in New York. The event provided a select group of entrepreneurs and business leaders the opportunity to engage in a variety of hands-on, arts-based learning workshops, and revealed how learning programs based in music, film, drawing, theater, and dance can help businesses surface creativity and foster innovation. The event culminated with an interactive panel discussion on the burgeoning field of arts-based learning in business, accompanied by short films and artwork created by participants earlier in the evening.
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Creativity Connection Launches New Partnership with The Second City
October 2006—Creativity Connection and Second City Communications, the corporate services division of the world’s most famous improvisational theater company, The Second City, announced their new partnership that will offer American businesses custom-designed training programs to help them meet a wide range of their organizational learning and employee training needs. In this alliance, the two groups will complement and leverage each other’s strengths to expand a growing business market interested in arts-based learning as a tool in addressing development objectives. Creativity Connection will also market the unique services of Second City Communications to meet growing demand for innovative learning and development methods by corporate clients.
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Creativity Connection Now Offers Exciting Film-Style Teambuilding
September 2006—Creativity Connection welcomes aboard award-winning producer/director Joel Leskowitz to its roster of acclaimed artist trainers who are working to bring arts-based learning and creativity training programs into corporate culture. Through his internationally recognized “15 Minutes of Fame” workshops, Leskowitz and his team of film industry veterans challenge business professionals to flex their right-brain muscles and uphold creative visions under pressure as they make short films. During these hands-on, experiential workshops, business participants are responsible for everything from scripting to shooting, acting, and directing - and at the end of the sessions, the films are screened in a gala-awards banquet. Beyond breakthroughs in personal and team communication skills, executives from companies like Boeing, American Express and Bank of America have reported benefits in the area of creativity, leadership…and fun!
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New Guthrie Theater Launches Art Of Business Institute
September 2006—With a state-of-the-art Education Center now a part of the Guthrie Theater’s new and improved home on the Minneapolis waterfront, the Guthrie Learning Center is excited to launch the first semester its Art of Business Institute (ABI) in September. As the latest program of the Learning Center, which has been bringing arts education to the public since 1963, the ABI will inspire new methods of business practice in the region’s corporate community by offering arts-based education programs designed to help business professionals weave creativity into their work. Developed and taught by the leading artists of American theater, ABI will offer such courses as “Theater Strategies for Attorneys” and “Leadership Skills Through the Eyes of Shakespeare” that cover everything from presentation and performance skills to the power of language. Visit the Guthrie Theater’s website for more information.
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