Her 10 years teaching Creative Startups: From Idea to Impact (MET AR 789) in the BU Metropolitan College MET Arts Administration program made Wendy Swart Grossman curious: What had become of the many students that had come and gone through her classroom? What do the more than 170 people who have taken it remember from the class, and what lasting impact did it make?
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I visualize the Social Innovation Forum’s (SIF) Social Innovators walking around with big sacks slung over their backs. Inside the sacks are their organizational stories, as well as their individual skills and tricks they have accumulated throughout their professional and personal lives. As one of eight SIF Consultants assigned a different Innovator each year, I am in the trusted position of digging through the sack with the Innovator and together deciding to get rid of the sticky old candy bar wrappers, acknowledge the shiny-but-useless-pennies, and polish and organize the treasure trove of precious gems.
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Jeannette Guillemin and Wendy Swart Grossman—who co-designed MET AR 789 Cultural Entrepreneurship, an elective in the MET Master of Science in Arts Administration program—have authored an article that explores the role corporate and university resources can play in creating social impact-minded art. In the December 2017 volume of Social Innovations Journal, the College of Fine Arts faculty members and MET instructors explain that business, collegiate, and artistic institutions can flourish through collaboration, and the way they have seen that potential realized here at Boston University.
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Creativity in its many forms is integrated into the tapestry of greater Boston -- from the Rose Kennedy Greenway to the innovation districts in the Boston Seaport and Dudley Square, to the universities and arts organizations throughout the city. Social impact work-spaces, incubators, accelerators, and makerspaces expand opportunities for artists and creative professionals to work with biotech, technology, healthcare, design, and higher education to address societal issues.
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