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Art Hub LAST CALL! Sign up for a summer session art class or workshop today!

If your sticking around the Arlington area this summer why not warm up your creative hands and register for an art class or workshop.  Check out our summer schedule www.arthubnews.blogspot.com can be found online at ART HUB or www.arlingtonva.us (you can register online also!!).  Many classes to choose from for all… Continue

Added by Art Hub on June 20, 2011 at 11:04am — No Comments

Cindy Ann Coldiron New Book: Sculpture and Design With Recycled Glass

This is my first book and was the result of 2 years of research.

 

Click here.

Added by Cindy Ann Coldiron on June 13, 2011 at 5:00pm — No Comments

Art Hub Call for Children’s Art Instructors

Arlington County Community Arts Unit is recruiting new art instructors for children’s classes.  Specifically searching for (but not limited to) art instructors to teach in our new afterschool art enrichment program which will travel to various schools in Arlington (pilot program begins March 25th).  Must be available weekdays 2pm-4:30pm.  Ideal candidates are those who are working artists or college art/education students, love working with children and have knowledge of many…

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Added by Art Hub on March 3, 2011 at 5:28pm — No Comments

Erica Kraus A Creative Company Benefiting Arlington Non-Profits

Talk about the triple bottom line - Deals for Deeds' Groupon-eque marketing model delivers exclusive offers in a new way, intertwining neighborhood growth with social responsibility. It’s a powerful digital commerce platform with charitable giving at its core. The site brings together local businesses, consumers, and non-profits in a mutually beneficial way.



And now, through their… Continue

Added by Erica Kraus on November 1, 2010 at 11:05pm — No Comments

Erica Kraus Creativity: not just for the arts

We now understand the question is not, "Are you creative?" but "How are you creative?"

Check out this great Business Week article about creativity in business.

Added by Erica Kraus on September 13, 2010 at 12:01pm — No Comments

Erica Kraus Where will jobs be? According to Richard Florida, we're doing the right thing here in the for D.C. area!

Check out the Washington Business Journal and Daily Beast Coverage and photo gallery.

Added by Erica Kraus on September 3, 2010 at 9:41am — No Comments

Ted Bilich Follow Creative Arlington on Twitter

If you are on Twitter, please follow Creative Arlington at CreateArlington. As we get more sophisticated (or magically find ourselves with more time), we will no doubt use the service more. You can also find me (Ted) on Twitter at TBilich.

Added by Ted Bilich on April 27, 2010 at 11:16am — No Comments

Ted Bilich CoZone Website Is Up - Coworking Opportunity at the New Artisphere

The Artisphere has just gone live with its new website devoted to CoZone, its new co-working space. Check it out at http://cozoneva.com/.



As most readers here know, the Artisphere is Arlington County's new cultural center, located in Rosslyn. It's scheduled to open on 10.10.10, and when it does, it plans to have co-working space as part of its offerings.



Creative Arlington has long advocated for the new cultural center, and also worked to… Continue

Added by Ted Bilich on April 22, 2010 at 2:00pm — 1 Comment

Neil Takemoto Creative coworking space being crowdsourced in the Artisphere!

These are proposed guidelines for the CoZone creative coworking space in the Artisphere, scheduled to open 10/10/10. It's 500 s.f. of core shared working space, with access to a separate conference room, additional individual workspaces and casual meeting areas. The… Continue

Added by Neil Takemoto on March 17, 2010 at 5:00pm — No Comments

Ted Bilich Artfest '10 Promises to Be Another Great Event

The Arlington Artists Alliance's Artfest '10 begins this weekend, March 19, and will run through March 26th. More than 30 Arlington artists will show their work at the festival, along with demos, workshops, and a lot of other interesting and fun activities.



The opening reception, at Fort C.F. Smith, 2411 N. 24th Street, Arlington, runs from 6 pm to 8 pm this Friday night, March 19th. This is a great party, a great chance to meet local artists, and a terrific chance to interact with… Continue

Added by Ted Bilich on March 16, 2010 at 6:33pm — No Comments

Ted Bilich What's in a Name? Plenty, So Weigh in on the Cultural Center!

The County is asking for citizen input on a proposed name for the new Cultural Center, which we've been following for the past year with interest. (See the posts here and here, and the event we hosted here.) I hope you will take a few… Continue

Added by Ted Bilich on December 29, 2009 at 4:55pm — 7 Comments

Ted Bilich Creative Arlington "Co-Working Group" to Follow Through on Co-Working

On December 10, 2009, Creative Arlington hosted its latest meeting, a gathering of entrepreneurs and others at the headquarters of Arlington Economic Development. Almost 30 people braved bitter cold to listen to Tara Miles from AED describe co-working opportunities and participate in brainstorming. This brief post reports on the night's highlights, including data from the flip charts generated at the meeting.



The group created a Creative Arlington Co-working Group to spearhead the… Continue

Added by Ted Bilich on December 20, 2009 at 6:36pm — 2 Comments

Art Hub Art Sampler Workshop - Thurs., Nov. 19 6:30-8pm

Are you 20 or 30 something? Want to relax after work and try something totally new or brush off the dust on dormant artistic skills? Sign up for the "20 Something Art Sampler" workshop on Thursday, November 19th at Fairlington Art Studios... (inside Fairlington Community Center), 3308 S Stafford St, Arlington, VA. Great way to try out a variety of art materials, explore your creative side, network and socialize with like minded peers. To register go to… Continue

Added by Art Hub on October 21, 2009 at 11:31am — No Comments

Andrew Media Convergence Video

Here's an informative video on the changing nature of the media landscape. Part of a series called "Shift Happens" that discusses convergence and new vs. traditional media, it was created by XPLANE in partnership with The Economist and a few individuals.… Continue

Added by Andrew on October 10, 2009 at 1:45pm — No Comments

Art Hub Interested in Jewelry Making / Lost Wax Casting? Sign up for this unique class with a talented instructor!

Added by Art Hub on October 8, 2009 at 1:24pm — No Comments

Christopher "Kit" Slitor Looking for Arlington, VA songwriters and musicians

I am an amateur song writer. Mostly I write music, but can create some lyrics. Looking to meet with, play with and collaborate with other local songwriters. I'd particularly like to find some talented people who can help me musically script my music so I can submit it for copyright. Once I copyright some of my tunes, I'd like to refine them further, with improved lyrics. I would love to find people who know about musical notation, musical scripting, computer know-how and software to assist in… Continue

Added by Christopher "Kit" Slitor on September 13, 2009 at 4:38pm — No Comments

Ted Bilich Books on Brains -- and Why We Must Learn from Them

A number of people have asked me the title of the book I mentioned at the Arlington Arts Center event last night (September 10, 2009), when I referred to the Funniest Joke in the World, the social nature of laughter, and the importance of face-to-face interaction as one portion of the Creative Arlington model. That book is Mind Wide… Continue

Added by Ted Bilich on September 11, 2009 at 11:29am — No Comments

Ted Bilich Work in the Conceptual Age

This blog post from the blog Creative Generalist provides some excellent links about how the nature of work is changing. Good reads. The TED Conference talk by Pink (also linked to the same post) is also very useful. Let me know what you think. As a number of us were saying at last night's event at the Arlington Arts Center, one of the core purposes of Creative Arlington is to provide new… Continue

Added by Ted Bilich on September 11, 2009 at 11:14am — No Comments

Ted Bilich New Media Initiatives -- Talk of the Town?

Seems that everywhere I go these days I'm talking with people about how Arlington can foster new media initiatives. The topic (which I've been following for a while) came up at a conference I attended about a month ago, where I heard a a powerhouse panel including people like Ezra Klein from the Washington Post and Nathalie Applewhite from The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. I had a long discussion about the… Continue

Added by Ted Bilich on July 30, 2009 at 12:42pm — No Comments

Ted Bilich Arlington: Committed to the Creative Class

Make no mistake: Arlington County is committed to building a community of knowledge workers -- what we here call the Creative Class. I was struck by this again as I reviewed the final, approved copy of the Arlington Economic Development Commission's Strategic Plan, which is available here.



In particular, take a look at Goal Three (of four): "Arlington will be an inclusive and interconnected… Continue

Added by Ted Bilich on July 16, 2009 at 11:52am — No Comments

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