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The Whole World Is Awash in Art

October 28, 2015 by Scott Walters 9 Comments

Once you have successfully freed yourself from the Sinatra Imperative, you have taken the first major step toward artistic independence. Suddenly, all the world is available for your creativity, and all the world’s people as well. When you have stopped believing that certain people are more important than others, then you can begin to believe that […]

The Three Pillars of Artistic Independence

October 22, 2015 by Scott Walters Leave a Comment

In my opinion, there are three pillars to artistic independence: Life choices Attitudes Business LIFE CHOICES are about the choices you make about how you want to live that have an impact on your work: Where you want to live?  If you live in Manhattan, it is different than living in Des Mines and it impacts your […]

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Buckminster Fuller once said, "You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete." Creative Insubordination is … [Read More...]

Scott Walters

Scott Walters is a Professor of Drama at the University of North Carolina at Asheville. He currently writes the Interrobang?! column at The Clyde Fitch Report, and has written for the Huffington Post, … [Read More...]

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