Sorry all! I didn't change the subject line so you would know this was a new message. Apologies for clogging mail boxes!
C
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From: Poulson, Chris
Sent: Wed 7/02/2007 9:37 AM
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Subject: RE: Art Leadership and Nancy Adler
One more thought after a few more slugs of coffee and a few more pages of Nancy's article ;
Nancy quotes Rob Austin: "Managers and management students don't understand how to create on cue, how to innovate relaibly on a deadline....." I had a student about my own age, here in Tasmania a few years back, say to me "You actually want us to wriote what we think??? We're not allowed to do that!!!" We have generations of students, faculty, and managers who have been punished for independent, creative thinking, and who cringe at the thought of a "peer critique" (certainly my own experience as student, manager, and faculty) -- Perhaps a year or two in the art school should be required for everyone!
When I told my father (a reknowned geneticist and Yale professor) that I wanted to go to photography school, he said, very gently, "You are going to college son." When my own son said he wanted to get a fine arts degree in ceramics I said "Go for it!" It is amazing how easily he takes feedback and critique and how often he incorporates those comments into his own work. How different from the student just recently, who after getting a list of questions from which the final exam would be taken, asked for a list of "standard answers!"
Now to finish my coffee!
Chris
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From: Aesthetics, Creativity, and Organisations Research Network on behalf of Poulson, Chris
Sent: Wed 7/02/2007 9:11 AM
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Subject: Re: Art Leadership and Nancy Adler
Hi All,
I've been lurking about this thread for a bit and have been reading Nancy Adler's lovely piece in AMLE. What strikes me is the irony that THE Academy published this after killing AcademyArts (the successor to the Art & Poetry section which Nancy cites) as it produced no revenue but incurred costs. The same fate befell The Fringe Café which too was on its way to becoming an Academy institution and partner to AcademyArts. Our last year in the Academy was in Honolulu in 2005.
Perhaps the time has come for the Art and Business Academy as Pierre has suggested. I'd sure come out of retirement to work to make that happen!
Chris Poulson
(Chair of Academy Arts for 3 of its 6 years)
University of Tasmania
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