ALR on Tour: Gel 2010 - Generating Creative Energy

I'm excited to announce that I will be once again be participating in the Gel Conference in NYC on April 29 & 30. This year I will be leading a Day 1 workshop called "Generating Creative Energy". Participants will meet at the Etsy headquarters and will take part in a hands-on exercise to experience the benefits I found in creating yearlong daily art project Skull-A-Day. For more information and to sign-up for the nearly sold-out conference go HERE.

And if you haven't seen it, here's my talk from the 2009 Gel Conference...


Noah Scalin at Gel 2009 from Gel Conference on Vimeo.

ALR on Tour: December

My December has unexpectedly filled up with travel related to my Skull-A-Day project. Since these are not really public events I've haven't promoted them, but in case you're interested here's what I'm up to:

• December 7th: speaking to design students at Syracuse University ’Äì Syracuse, NY
• December 9th: talk/workshop at the Intuit Experience Design (XD) Forum’Äì San Francisco
• December 11th: talk/workshop at the Virginia Museum of Fine Art's Art NOW Teen Symposium ’Äì Richmond, VA
• December 15th: talks for the New York Public Library's SmARTZ events for teens at two branches (Grand Concourse, Bronx & Grand Central, Manhattan). ’Äì New York City

Also you're interested in having me come talk with your group about generating creative energy through daily practice and my experiences creating a skull a day for a year, please drop me a line.

You can see a video of one of my recent talks for the Gel conference HERE.

ALR on Tour: Skull-A-Day at Gel 2009

Earlier this year I was invited to go to NYC to give a talk on my Skull-A-Day project at the 2009 Gel Conference. Each year Gel (which stands for Good Experience Live) brings together a really diverse range of folks to share what they do in just 20 minutes. The talks are usually very inspiring and guaranteed to get you thinking. While only a small number of people can attend in person, they kindly put the talks online as well for all to see. Definitely go check em all out, they're well worth your time. I was honored to be included this year and I'm already scheming about how to get back there next year by offering a workshop of some sort. I'm open to suggestions! Here's the video of my talk:

Noah Scalin at Gel 2009 from Gel Conference on Vimeo.

ALR on Tour: New York, Austin, Philadelphia, Richmond

I will be doing a lot of traveling this year, so I figured I'd share some of my upcoming public speaking dates. Please do come out and say "hi" if you're in any of these areas/attending these events...

February 26: James River Writers Writing Show panel "From Rags to Riches: The Art of Self-Promotion" with Jenny Block, and Slash Coleman. 6:30-8:30 at the Science Museum of Virginia. Richmond, VA

April 30: GEL Conference guest speaker. New York City

June 25: How Design Conference guest lecturer. Austin, TX

October 31: Mˆºtter Museum Day of The Dead event keynote speaker. Philadelphia, PA

I also enjoy giving talks at universities and for business groups about both my work as a socially conscious designer and my year-long art project Skull-A-Day. If you're interested in having me come talk to your group/school please don't hesitate to get in touch.

ALR on tour: Youth Peace Summit, Richmond, VA

One of my former students and I ran a workshop on media awareness this weekend for the Richmond Peace Education Center's annual Youth Peace Summit. We had a terrific group of kids who were not only familiar with what we were talking about (the power of media/corporations to influence their lives and their communities), but eager to work on a project deconstructing magazine ads. Thanks to RPEC for asking us to participate.

ALR on tour: Richmond, VA

OK it's not far from my office to the campus of Virginia Commonwealth University (where I also teach my own Design Rebels class), but it's still an honor to be asked to come speak there periodically about living & working ethically. Thanks to Dr. Mark Wood and his International Social Justice students for having me on the last day of class.

ALR on Tour: NYC

I just returned from a business trip in NYC (thus the lack of posts recently) where I also gave a talk at NYU's Tisch School of The Arts to students [shown left] in the Tech Track program (which was the program I was in, 15 odd years ago!).

Thanks so much to Wendy Luedtke for bringing me in to talk about my company and socially conscious design.