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Seawall: Responsible Developers for Baltimore's Artists and Educators
Eric Bos | July 23, 2010
It’s not often that a development company is talked of fondly.  They have a history of being the bad guys in everything from made-for-TV movies to real life, but in the last few years Seawall Development Company has made its mark as a developer actively seeking to do good by the community and environment.
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Books, Jazz, and Neighbors Fuse at San Francisco's Bird and Beckett
Contributing Writer | June 30, 2010
Story contributed by Polina Selyutin.
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3rd Ward Builds a Space for Urban Creative Professionals to Work, Learn, and Play
Scott Ballum | June 28, 2010
Nestled in between vacant warehouses and bustling industrial yards, 3rd Ward offers both a playground and a serious workshop for creative professionals in Brooklyn, NY. The space houses photo studios, professional wood & metal shops, a fully loaded digital media lab, office space, and an interdisciplinary art education program. Co-founder Jason Goodman talked to us about getting people to 'get it', and the sometimes harsh realities of relying on beer money.
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Google and Sheepless.org Seek Out Community Makers
Scott Ballum | June 14, 2010
Sheepless.org champions the small businesses that make our communities more sustainable, accessible, creative, and fun.
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Kyle Abraham is Keeping His Dance Company in Motion
Scott Ballum | June 8, 2010
Kyle Abraham's company, indeed his work is unlike most others. He's a young and talented dancer and choreographer from Pittsburgh, PA, who performs regularly around the country. He recently presented his latest piece, The Radio Show, at Danspace Project in New York. The title refers to a popular radio station that Kyle grew up listening to, WAMO, that shuttered last year. He uses dance to explore what this loss does to an urban community that listened together and collectively connected to the station as a kind of therapy.
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Greenlight Bookstore Tells a Different Story
Scott Ballum | May 12, 2010
Jessica Stockton Bagnulo and her partner Rebecca Fitting opened Greenlight Bookstore in the Fort Greene neighborhood of Brooklyn, NY. We talked to her about the place for independent bookstores in today's world, their inspiring funding model, and about creating a community space that people want to spend time in.Video not loading correctly? Watch it here on the Sheepless.org Vimeo Channel.
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Guest Editorial: Groundswell Gains Through Independence--and Collaboration
James David Morgan | April 11, 2010
What is it that Groundswell does?  We're so happy to say that we don't yet know.
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Transmodern: Radical Culture and Accessible Art Through Interaction
Eric Bos | April 9, 2010
For the past 6 years, the Transmodern Festival has been the premier gathering of interactive and avant-garde art and performance.  The event serves to both highlight women and GLBT artists, and bring modern art—what is in many cases thought of as haughty, cerebral, and un-relatable—to the feet of everyday people and artists alike.  The thing that sets Transmodern apart from other art events is interactivity, the back and forth between artists and observers.  “If you go to a show and watch a band it’s a one way street, even if you go to a gallery and see a show its still a one
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Space for the Creative Entrepreneur in Brooklyn's 3rd Ward
Scott Ballum | March 31, 2010
Those in creative cultural centers like parts of New York and Brooklyn might take for granted the community of artists and designers around them, and the opportunities for networking and collaboration that they create. We sometimes forget the blood, sweat, and tears of people who pulled these centers together, not to mention a region's history that opened the possibility for such a neighborhood and space to exist.
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Guest Editorial: Networking and the Artist Entrepreneur
Erin Loechner | March 29, 2010
I hate networking. I know, I know. Total heresy. Let me explain…Networking, in the traditional sense, makes my stomach churn. You know the scenario. Business cards, three piece suits, Las Vegas conferences. The norm. Sure, it may work, but it lacks one key ingredient in a successful personal relationship: sincerity.I’m a firm believer that if you can’t offer sincerity, you can’t offer much. And as creatives, if our heart isn’t in our work, it can get pretty ugly. And I’m not talking metaphorically here. Really, it’s ugly.