Self-Coaching Question: What would make my life feel meaningful to me?
If Artists Had a Strong Collective Voice, What Could Change?
Communities could transform: art would not merely entertain or decorate, but inform, provoke, and unite.
Communities could transform: art would not merely entertain or decorate, but inform, provoke, and unite.
The Dilemma of Uncertainty
Self-Coaching Question: How can I live well without guarantees?
Self-Coaching Question: How can I live well without guarantees?
Belonging Without Conformity
A collective that encourages individuality rather than uniformity produces work that surprises, challenges, and inspires.
A collective that encourages individuality rather than uniformity produces work that surprises, challenges, and inspires.
The Dilemma of Choice
Self-Coaching Question: How do I decide what direction to take?
Self-Coaching Question: How do I decide what direction to take?
The Quiet Crisis Facing Emerging and Mid-Career Artists
It is a tension between passion and pragmatism, visibility and invisibility, resilience and vulnerability.
It is a tension between passion and pragmatism, visibility and invisibility, resilience and vulnerability.
The Dilemma of Freedom
Self-Coaching Question: What responsibilities are truly mine?
Self-Coaching Question: What responsibilities are truly mine?
What a Worldwide Community of Artists Might Look Like
By witnessing the work of others—thousands of individuals striving to bring something new into being—artists would be reminded that they are participating in a long human tradition of creativity.
By witnessing the work of others—thousands of individuals striving to bring something new into being—artists would be reminded that they are participating in a long human tradition of creativity.
Men and Meaning
Historically and culturally, men have often been encouraged to define themselves through what they do rather than whom they care for.
Historically and culturally, men have often been encouraged to define themselves through what they do rather than whom they care for.
The Precarious Arts: On the Financial Realities of Working Artists
Many artists live with chronic financial insecurity.
Many artists live with chronic financial insecurity.
The Pathway of Rebellion
Existential rebellion arises when a given individual refuses to consent to falseness, injustice, or mediocrity.
Existential rebellion arises when a given individual refuses to consent to falseness, injustice, or mediocrity.
Across Disciplines, the Same Struggles
Each artist confronts existential doubt about the significance of their form.
Each artist confronts existential doubt about the significance of their form.
The Pathways of Commitment and Fidelity
Fidelity solidifies the contours of a life by saying, again and again, “I am here, and I remain.”
Fidelity solidifies the contours of a life by saying, again and again, “I am here, and I remain.”
Creativity Is Not a Luxury: What Societies Forget at Their Peril
Survival comes first, we are told; beauty can wait.
Survival comes first, we are told; beauty can wait.
The Pathway of Wonder
Cultivating wonder is both a joy and a discipline.
Cultivating wonder is both a joy and a discipline.
The Hidden Loneliness of the Creative Life
The many roads that lead to isolation and sadness.
The many roads that lead to isolation and sadness.