{"id":61,"name":"Beck Tench","url":"","description":"Beck tench is an independent educator living in Durham, NC. \r\n\r\nShe was formally trained as a designer and journalist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill\u2019s School of Journalism and Mass Communication and has spent her career since helping people and organizations of all types to embrace risk-taking, creativity, and change.\r\n\r\nHer work has been mentioned in the New York Times, National Public Radio, Scientific American, Quantified Self, Independent Weekly and several books and blogs.  Some of the projects she was instrumental in making and facilitating include Library Space Camp, Experimonth, Project FeederWatch: Sketch, Is the Library Open?, Name That Zoom, and The SmartWool Experiment. \r\n\r\nSome of her favorite work was done in partnership with the Museum of Life and Science, Exploratorium, Science Museum of Minnesota, Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, Michigan State University, University of Washington, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, and Illinois State Library. \r\n\r\nBeck has learned that small things add up to big things over time, especially change. She\u2019s presented around the country and also in her neighborhood about taking risks and how she manages to not be afraid to be afraid. She writes and draws about fear, failure and change on her blog, Swimming with Sharks.","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/author\/beck-tench\/","slug":"beck-tench","avatar_urls":{"24":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f0184dcbcc5de93728a705b3202aa4b0b4d62bdef4c968f68736b3b6f111fbda?s=24&d=mm&r=g","48":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f0184dcbcc5de93728a705b3202aa4b0b4d62bdef4c968f68736b3b6f111fbda?s=48&d=mm&r=g","96":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f0184dcbcc5de93728a705b3202aa4b0b4d62bdef4c968f68736b3b6f111fbda?s=96&d=mm&r=g","128":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f0184dcbcc5de93728a705b3202aa4b0b4d62bdef4c968f68736b3b6f111fbda?s=128&d=mm&r=g"},"meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users"}]}}