May 25, 2026On CreativityOn LeadershipOn Making 5 Ways to Ruin a Collaboration I’ve had the pleasure of collaborating with some incredible people. Most of these individuals have been amazing collaborators — the…
May 10, 2026On CreativityOn Making Experiments with a Digital Camera I shoot on film. I have for almost 5 years. Before then, I was a commercial real estate photographer and,…
April 24, 2026On Leadership Leadership Is an Environment, Not a Position I keep encountering a misunderstanding about leadership. People tend to equate leadership with authority: being the person with the answers,…
March 10, 2026On Leadership Leadership Is Not Authority I’m often amazed at how people perceive leadership. I believe it gets misrepresented as dictating orders and telling others what…
December 12, 2025On CreativityOn LeadershipOn Making To be Creative is to Create Creativity isn’t a talent, it’s a practice. James Johnson reframes failure, iteration, and play as essential tools for innovation and…
September 4, 2025Creative WritingOn CreativityOn LeadershipOn MakingOn Theater Radial Generosity @ Make Santa Fe What if we don’t have to be afraid of failure? What if instead of judging ourselves and others for failing, we generously make space for it from the start? I’ve come to believe failure is essential—it’s the secret ingredient to creativity.
November 5, 2024On CreativityOn Making Does AI create art? As executive director of Make Santa Fe, I get to participate in fantastic conversations and thought explorations. Today, on our…
August 21, 2024On Making How the modern maker movement can be attributed to Vienna, Austria Make Santa Fe’s ethos can be attributed to the lost city of Vienna, Austria. Weird, I know, but here’s how….
August 21, 2023On Theater Reimagining the Theatrical Design Process The theatrical design process is broken, and I know how to fix it. I see four problems with the theatrical…
May 3, 2020Creative Writing The Year 3056 Back so many years ago, longer than recent, but not so long as to forget, there was a people, a…