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Trends in US Job Market Salaries for 2013

Great news for techies! According to the 2013-2012 Salary Survey from Dice, one of the leading career sites for technology and engineer professionals, job market salaries focused on technology in the U.S jumped higher than they have in a decade, with techies earning a more than five percent increase in average annual wages. The numbers [...]


Are Creative People More Temperamental and Sensitive than Others?

Are Creative People More Temperamental and Sensitive than Others?

Research studies have proved that creative folks are usually more temperamental and sensitive than a lot of us and more sensitive too.  Shyness is a common trait of Highly Sensitive People (HSP’s). HSP’s find it difficult to deal with being around people, especially over an extended length of time. They also can be easily overwhelmed [...]


Student Debt Update: Two Reports Show Increasing Struggles

Creative Arts Job Markets and Salaries

In January 2013 there were two new reports showing how Americans are struggling to repay student loan debt.  This has caused economy issues, and is also and wasting the taxpayers’ dollars. One of the reports details an analysis of 10 million credit files from Fair Isaac Corp. (FICO) finding a 58 percent increase in the [...]


How the MBTI Test Proves How Creative Students are Different

MBTI Personality Types

It has been said many times that the arts and media student is different from other students. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI®) personality assessment, which has been used by many business professionals for more than 20 years, is a psychometric questionnaire designed to measure psychological preferences focused on how people make decisions and perceive the [...]


The Educational Statistics and Outcomes in Top Five U.S. States – The Mega States

Recent news published by the National Center for Education Statistics on February 20, 2103 touts the Mega-States — California, Florida, Illinois, New York, and Texas – to be the states that enroll close to 40 percent of the nation’s public school students. Around 19 million students attend schools in these Mega-States. California enrolls nearly 1.5 [...]


The Art of Coaching Creative Leaders

Carole Hodges - The Art of Coaching Creative Leaders

The coaching profession is growing. If you are old enough to remember 20 years ago coaching was used primarily as a remedial tactic for poor professional performers, whereas today, most coaching budgets focus on developing high potential leaders. Now the industry has an estimated 47,500 professional coaches generating close to $2 billion (USD) in annual [...]


Creative Genius: The Challenge for Creative People to Thrive in the Real World

Creative Genius: The Challenge for Creative People to Thrive in the Real World

If you look at a photo of Albert Einstein, the most influential composer of all time, or Steve Jobs who founded Apple, you might  immediately  think of the phrase “creative geniuses.” These are people who, in essence, changed the world as we knew it.  Geniuses break new ground with their inventions or even with music [...]


Do the Arts and Media Have First Amendment Protection?

The Bill of Rights

Historically artists and the media have always challenged authority, and even as it can be shocking at first, many times, its relevance over time comes to be revered as important for either social or art history. Often times, controversial art focuses on religious, political or sexual controversies. This brings to mind the actual meaning of [...]


Interview with Figurative Painter and Art Teacher Niels Jeffrey Miller

Four Leaf Clover by Niels Jeffrey Miller

Through the centuries, the Master artists have mentored many hundreds of thousands of students in the arts. Today, a teaching philosophy, also called a teaching statement, is becoming a more common part of academics for faculty and graduate students alike. In fact today many universities request statements from applicants for faculty positions, and the existing [...]


When Does Being Creative Constitute Madness?

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–Schizotypes who are able to be both creative and mad, and navigate the world with no issues. – Many times we have heard the expression that “there is a fine line between creativity and madness.” For some people creativity means they often can’t thrive in a structured or rules oriented environment – school, home, the [...]