Conversations with working artists, curators, and cultural figures on practice, funding, and creative life.

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Using artificial intelligence to write your grant application will probably backfire.

Getting rejected by a grant does not mean you are a bad artist. Most elite grants reject almost everyone. Keep trying.

Most stress comes from trying to control things you were never able to control in the first place.

Most artists misunderstand how public art commissions actually work. This conversation with curator Edi Muka explains what public art institutions are really looking for.

Most art grants are not rejected because the work is bad. They get rejected because the portfolio, writing, and application system are weak.

Most artists try too hard to impress curators. In reality, long-term opportunities usually come from being reliable, easy to work with, and staying in touch over time.

Artist Laura Wee Láy Láq speaks about clay, spirit, language, ancestral memory, and the transformation stories that shape Stó:lō culture. A powerful conversation on art as prayer, earth as teacher, and culture as living presence.

Artist Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun speaks with uncompromising force about colonialism, climate destruction, Indigenous sovereignty, and the sacredness of the earth. A raw and urgent conversation on art as witness, protest, and historical record.

Artist Connie Watts reflects on masks, potlatch, family memory, Indigenous knowledge, and the living force of Northwest Coast art. A moving conversation on ancestry, healing, design, and the power of bringing cultural works back to life.

Early Work and Influences (1980s–1990s) Fred Wilson’s formation as an artist was deeply informed by his early, behind-the-scenes experiences in museums. After earning a BFA in 1976, he worked in the education departments of major New York museums – including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the American Museum of Natural History – where he…

Why do people follow trends, trust viral content, and copy what others do? This article explains how social proof shapes everyday decisions — from social media and shopping to politics and the art world.

Introduction Edward Kamau Brathwaite (1930–2020) stands as a towering figure in Caribbean literature, a poet-scholar whose work revolutionized the region’s literary voice. Over six decades, Brathwaite produced an expansive body of poetry and criticism that chronicles the African diaspora experience and boldly experiments with form and language. From his early days in the 1960s crafting…

Most people underestimate how strongly the need to “return the favor” shapes their decisions. This article explores the hidden psychology of reciprocity, generosity, obligation, and manipulation.

What happens when people stop trusting their own perception and begin outsourcing judgment to Artificial Intelligence? From weather apps to ChatGPT, cognitive offloading is quietly reshaping memory, attention, and independent thought.

When the machine thinks, you think less. That’s not a moral failure. That’s just what happens. The tool doesn’t decide which version of you shows up. You do.

Save time and protect your credibility. I give you the exact method, the exact prompts, and the exact verification steps to use AI research tools without embarrassing yourself in a grant application.

Grit is overrated. Strategic quitting is underrated. Most people stay trapped in bad projects, careers, and goals not because they are rationally valuable, but because sunk costs, identity, and fear make walking away feel like failure.

The struggle for time is real. After sleep, eating, and exercise, you have only a few hours for work. By identifying two or three Most Important Tasks each day and completing them before email and messages, you reclaim control of your time.
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