When we hire someone, we are looking for solid written documentation about education and experience. How about raw creativity?
At an arts council fundraising dinner, groups bought each chair around the table for $100 each AND decorated the table the day in advance of the dinner. There were some amazing-looking tables. Talent seemed to ooze out of the woodwork.
Our entire group showed up to decorate our table. The tablecloth had been made to match an oil painting of a well-set table. The tablecloth dimensions and those of the table were not a good match. Artists, being the creative people they are, began to make suggestions about how to solve the mismatch. The suggestions just kept coming and coming. It was so much fun to realize how much creative brainpower was gathered around that table. These people were problem solvers of the highest order.
Are we checking for creativity and problem solving when we hire? I hope so. In addition, many times artists have to do with less. Their solutions have to be simple, cost-effective. Want something elegant, simple? Encourage the creative side of your workers or hire a starving artist…
Moonflower 