Join the IAE and WBEZ @ Catalyst Ranch to Celebrate Self Employment

January 16th, 2012 | No Comments

Join us here at Catalyst Ranch next Thursday, January 26th, as we celebrate self employment. The Institute for Arts Entrepreneurship (IAE) will be teaming up with WBEZ’s Front & Center to host a resource fair for the self employed, small businesses, start-ups, and freelancers.

Perfect for those creative professionals that are no longer working in traditional [...]

Outtakes from “You Meet the Coolest People at the Ranch” episode 5

October 26th, 2011 | No Comments

We are very lucky to meet some cool people at the Ranch and equally lucky that they let us profile them every now and again. You can check out some of those videos here. Often a lot of fun and humorous tidbits end up on the cutting room floor. Our new friends, Rick and Susan [...]

Realize Your Next Big Idea this Thursday- Create. Innovate. Repeat.

October 19th, 2010 | No Comments

  We all are innovators in our own ways. We know how creative you can be, we have seen it over and over again from focus groups to ideation sessions, you all bring the “sky is the limit” to the ranch. Now here is a chance to gather with like minded friends both new and [...]

Vacation All I Ever Wanted, In A Tree

August 3rd, 2010 | No Comments

Looking for a break this summer, somewhere to “vanish” for a little vacation? Well here is a hotel that literally is invisible to the surrounding forest. This hotel just recently opened a few weeks ago and looks like its straight out of a sci-fi story, the perfect place for the Jetsons if they moved into [...]

Advertising the Green Way

July 12th, 2010 | No Comments

“Going Green” is nothing new to us and has become common lingo for promotion. A little while back I shared with you a company who create eco-friendly advertising “clouds,” Flogos- Logos that Fly. New concepts come up everyday, well recently I ran across a photo of an ad for Shredded Wheat looking a lot like [...]

“Here You Go!”

July 2nd, 2010 | No Comments

Random Acts of Kindness. They happen every day. Sometimes we are so busy and caught up in our own lives we may not see them. We may not realize how many and how often these wonderful random acts of kindness happen throughout any given day. Some acts are huge, generous and very noticeable while others [...]

Watch out daydreamers, there may actually be images in the sky!

April 26th, 2010 | No Comments

As kids, most of us spent time lying in the grass, watching clouds roll by and imagining the shapes we could see in the fluffy white masses. Special effect inventors Francisco Guerra and Brian Glover aimed to bring to life these daydreams with their invention of Flogos – Logos that Fly! They can make “clouds” [...]

Interview With Lisa Canning – Entrepreneur the Arts

February 10th, 2010 | 1 Comment

Our friend Lisa Canning of Entrepreneur the Arts was interviewed recently in Crain’s Enterprise City Blog. Lisa has taken a different perspective on applied creativity by starting the Institute for Arts Entrepreneurship.
The “starving artist” stereotype thrives even during economic boom times, so it makes sense that the recession would [...]