This morning, as Arlo and were making our way around Ann Arbor, I cut through an ally next to Community High, where I found three filing cabinets. Not being one who can just walk by a discarded filing cabinet without opening it, I slid the drawers out one by one, looking inside. The first few […]
I wasn’t aware, until reading this article in Newsweek just now, that we had an accepted scientific way in which to evaluate and measure creativity. I also didn’t know that, since the 1990’s, the creativity scores of American students have been steadily inching downward. I’m not surprised, of course, given the trend in education toward […]
My friend Ruth Marks is launching an incredibly cool children’s art program in Ypsi called FLY, and I had an opportunity this weekend to ask her a few questions about it… Here’s the interview: MARK: So, what’s FLY? RUTH: FLY Children’s Art Center is a non-profit organization that makes meaningful art making experiences accessible to […]
