Creativity

Opera and Monsters

My research associate, Rob Newell, recently coined the term "Art in Action", when we were brainstorming about how to integrate more of the arts into our research. This video shows another different integration of opera and street art, tackling the tough social issue of bullying by uncovering the monster in all of us. Vancouver Opera's promotion of Stickboy commissioned street artists to bring to life their own inner bully, and their life size murals are now curated throughout the city.

The Art of Action

In an earlier blog, I talked about naturalists, birders, researchers and gardeners networking to reverse the species decline just announced by the WWF. Similarly, this artists collaboration, Pathways to Paris, was just announced at a climate change concert in New York, featuring Patti Smith, Rebecca Foon, Thurston Moore, to name only a few. Bill McKibbon opened the concert and framed the science of climate change for the audience.

Paint the City

Hoping to ignite a new era of art enthusiasts now able to experience and contemplate art in the city in their daily lives, this project created Canada's largest outdoor public art gallery, using electronic outdoor billboards in three cities.  The power of collaboration is also shown through Paint the City, a partnership between Artists in Canada and painter David Tycho,  Every community should implement this program, reconnecting aesth