The Impossible, Beautiful World of William Schaff
William Schaff makes beautiful art. The Rhode Island-based artist and musician is best known for his album covers for bands such as Godspeed You! Black Emperor and Okkervil River, but he builds and shapes his distinctive firmament across prints, paintings, embroidery, wood cuts, sculptures, and…
Katie Hunt-Morr and Etsy: Cultivating Values-Based Culture
Etsy is a retailer in an unusual position. Although it was founded in 2005, Etsy’s value proposition harkens back to the older, more egalitarian promise of the Internet. The wild popularity of its marketplace has raised the discourse and connection around craft to levels probably…
Matt Lerner and Walk Score: Put a Number on It
In 2007, Walk Score appeared out of nowhere and built a way of looking at the world that was so useful and intuitive as to become, at once, completely manifest and familiar. By pulling the shapeless abstraction of “walkability” out of the sky and giving…
CEO David Howitt and the Journey for Purpose and Meaning
David Howitt is engaged with the stuff that’s hard to pin down. The Founder and CEO of Meriwether Group, a private equity, business accelerator, and advisory firm headquartered in Portland, Oregon, is known for helping brands such as Stumptown Coffee, Pendleton Woolen Mills, adidas, and…
Lance Bangs on Not Making the Same, Boring Thing
Lance Bangs, an accomplished artist, filmmaker, documentarian, producer, and music video director, mines intimate space. He collects ephemeral, essentially impossible to capture moments and turns them into artifacts. There’s surprise there. Humor. Sadness. Weirdness, too. His eclectic body of work includes television, comedy performances, music…
Danielle Dutton On Creative Practice and Reaching Beyond Your Grasp
Danielle Dutton is a writer, editor, publisher, and artist whose work explores the vital friendship between art and reality and the space that surrounds (and often collapses between) the normal, the bizarre, and the wonderful. She is the author of two novels, Attempts at a…
Kevin Allison and the Personal Power of Story
Listening to RISK! is like eavesdropping on a bunch of eclectic, courageous storytellers hanging out in front of a fire, where the curves — and there are always curves — arrive unexpectedly, deliciously, and hard. At its essence, RISK! is a live show and storytelling…
Julie Klausner on Hard Work, Making Stuff, and The Urgency to Be Heard
Julie Klausner, a performer, comedian, writer, and podcaster based in New York City, tells stories with an infectious joie de vivre and a commitment to entertainment. She is the author of I Don’t Care About Your Band, a funny and often heartbreaking dating memoir, and…
Andrew Dickson and the Astounding Art of Encouragement
It’s challenging enough to express yourself across one medium, much less two. Andrew Dickson, a Portland, Oregon-based artist, father, and polymath, however, has developed outlets of personal expression across multiple disciplines, including performance art, writing, auctioneering, storytelling, professional advertising services, filmmaking, life coaching, acting, voice-overs,…
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