| By Art Works, 253 contributed posts About the author: Art Works is the official blog of the National Endowment for the Arts by Andrea Grover, Lead Author, New Art/Science Affinities, Curator, Intimate Science, Curator of Programs, Parrish Art Museum For four months in the fall of 2010, I worked at a cozy desk in the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) as a curatorial research fellow, hosted jointly by the Miller Gallery and the STUDIO. [...] Continue reading New Art/Science Affinities By Art Works, 253 contributed posts About the author: Art Works is the official blog of the National Endowment for the Arts May 3, 2012 By Josephine Reed Jonah Lehrer. Photo by Nina Subin This week’s podcast is a conversation with Jonah Lehrer, who wrote Imagine: How Creativity Works, a book that has gotten people talking and thinking. Creativity and innovation are getting a lot of play these days. Everyone seems to agree these are the engines [...] Continue reading Art Works Podcast: Jonah Lehrer By Art Works, 253 contributed posts About the author: Art Works is the official blog of the National Endowment for the Arts  by Marina McDougall, Director, Center for Art & Inquiry White Light © The Exploratorium, www.exploratorium.edu Physicist and educator Frank Oppenheimer founded the Exploratorium in 1969 as a museum of art, science, and human perception. A hybrid between a laboratory and a public museum, the Exploratorium’s roots lie in an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the world. [...] Continue reading Art & Inquiry at the Exploratorium By Art Works, 253 contributed posts About the author: Art Works is the official blog of the National Endowment for the Arts  by Roger Malina, Distinguished Professor of Art and Technology and Professor of Physics, University of Texas, Dallas and Directeur de Recherche au CNRS, Aix Marseille Universite Making Science Intimate Earworm (node) by Deborah Aschheim, 2008, speakers, LED’s, plastic, copper tubing. This sound sculpture translates the musicians’ improvisation on the word “node,”(which brings up associations of [...] Continue reading Making Science Intimate: Translating and Integrating the Arts and Humanities with Biology and Medicine By Arts Action Fund News, 94 contributed posts About the author: Arts Action Fund is a 501(c)(4) nonprofit membership organization affiliated with Americans for the Arts. We are the nation's leading nonprofit organization for advancing the arts in America. Launched in 2004, the Arts Action Fund seeks to engage citizens in education and advocacy in support of the arts and arts education. President Obama’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities leads the way in improving struggling schools with unique arts intensive curriculums. Continue reading Turnaround Arts Initiative: Arts Education is Education Reform By Americans for the Arts News, 104 contributed posts About the author: Celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2010, Americans for the Arts is the nation's leading nonprofit organization for advancing the arts in America. Americans for the Arts is dedicated to representing and serving local communities and creating opportunities for every American to participate in and appreciate all forms of the arts. Our first Animating Democracy Blog Salon of the year will showcase expert practitioners and innovative thinkers as they attempt to answer the question:How can we validate the benefit of the arts and culture in terms of social impact… Continue reading Join Our Social Impact & Evaluation Blog Salon (April 30-May 4) By Art Works, 253 contributed posts About the author: Art Works is the official blog of the National Endowment for the Arts April 30, 2012 by Bill O’Brien, Senior Advisor for Program Innovation “Signals,” a collaboration between Casey Reas and Ben Fry, depicts an image where each graphical cluster represents signals between networked proteins in a cancer cell as they change over time. “The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious—the fundamental emotion which stands [...] Continue reading The Imagine Engine! or Art and Science—a True Story By Art Works, 253 contributed posts About the author: Art Works is the official blog of the National Endowment for the Arts  April 27, 2012 By Adam Kampe Jimmy Owens, center, and his band perform The Monk Project at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola inside Jazz at Lincoln Center. Image by Frank Stewart I’ll never forget the moment I met Jimmy Owens in the back of Dizzy’s Club a few months ago. The man who often dons a hat [...] Continue reading NEA Jazz Master Jimmy Owens on Thelonious Monk By Art Works, 253 contributed posts About the author: Art Works is the official blog of the National Endowment for the Arts April 26, 2012 By Josephine Reed Delfeayo Marsalis. Photo courtesy of the musician Meet Delfeayo Marsalis, one of the top trombonists and producers working in jazz today, and the third son in the acclaimed Marsalis family. (And for you trivia lovers, the Marsalis family has received the one and only group NEA Jazz Masters Award.) [...] Continue reading Art Works Podcast: Delfeayo Marsalis By Art Works, 253 contributed posts About the author: Art Works is the official blog of the National Endowment for the Arts April 26, 2012 By Josephine Reed Delfeayo Marsalis. Photo courtesy of the musician Meet Delfeayo Marsalis, one of the top trombonists and producers working in jazz today, and the third son in the acclaimed Marsalis family. (And for you trivia lovers, the Marsalis family has received the one and only group NEA Jazz Masters Award.) [...] Continue reading Art Works Podcast: Delfeayo Marsalis |  DISCLOSURE: SOAR/Art Matters! has affiliate relationships with the providers of great products and services below. If you make a purchase from one of the sites below, it helps defray the cost of promoting Southern Oregon Artists, so please use our links!   Utrecht's online discounts have been updated, though the graphics remain the same. The link above saves 40% off your highest priced item (coupon code AP1), the one below gets you 15% off any order of $100 or more AND Free Shipping! (coupon code AP3)    Ashland artist Pegi Smith sells her art on Yessy.com - View her Yessy gallery hereNow thru April 30: 
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