Things Get Messy
My presentation today at the College Art Association’s annual conference was called “Financial Basics for Entrepreneurial Artists.” But in the spirit of improvisation and, dare I say, impulsive artistry, I added the subtitle: “Things Get Messy.” Messy is all around […]
SECAC Recap
I’ve spent the past few weeks gathering my thoughts from the 2013 Southeastern College Arts Conference gathering in Greensboro, and my brain continues to percolate with new ideas. I met tremendous people, we shared fantastic ideas, and I benefited from […]
Education of the Brain
I’ve had education of the brain on my brain lately. It is, in fact, a tangled and fascinating web to study, and it represents worlds colliding for me. I am authoring a paper for to present later this fall on […]
Drumroll Please…
What an incredible evening I had at The Collective last month, where I led a master class on Arts & Numbers for musicians, mostly drummers. I spoke amid drum sets, keyboards, and production equipment and answered questions from the 30 […]
Contradictory Goals
Sometimes I’m a writer; sometimes I’m a CPA; sometimes I’m a CPA talking to writers. Sometimes I’m an artist; sometimes I’m a finance nerd; sometimes I’m a finance nerd teaching finance to artists. Sometimes the contradictions collide beautifully. And they […]
Business Tips for Designers
Yesterday my final blog post for We Blog Design went live. It is the fifth in a five-part series, which covers business tips for designers. In crafting the posts, I sought the insights of three of my favorite designers, Jim […]
Crafting the Script for a (Financially) Fulfilling Life
Scene One: Stage lights rise on a conference room setting. The center table is full of playwrights, twelve of them, who have just completed a two-day financial literacy boot camp. The organizers of the event stand at the front of […]
Arts in Memoriam
I love Memorial Day. It is one of my favorite holidays, and not simply because it marks the unofficial start of summer. I love spring, I love the fresh, clean air of the outdoors. I love a holiday bike ride. […]
A&N Extras Added
I’m so excited to announce that I’ve posted a number of Excel and PDF files from Arts & Numbers to this website. The are free and available for anyone to download. Those of you reading the e-book will be linked […]
IGNITE Program Keeps Growing
Footage from a presentation I gave in January was used as part of a story on NBC last week about IGNITE, the initiative started by Math Plus Academy to encourage girls to pursue STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) subjects […]
