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How Building Theme Park Attractions Led Welder Jay Ryatt to Embrace His Inner Creativity

09/27/19

By Justin Sanders

It’s a quiet day at Infinity Arts Studio, where owner and proprietor Jay Ryatt recently completed a project for one of his aerospace clients. His slate is clear – which means it’s time to get creative.  “So now I’ll be out there,” he says, “building this big old tornado a customer... Read more

How Slamdance Winner Nienke Deutz Used Innovative Animation to Create a Powerful Short Film on Female Friendship

08/28/19

By Justin Sanders

Puberty is not for the faint of heart. We know this. We remember the hormones and the emotions, and the changes in our bodies that sometimes made us feel like strangers to ourselves. It’s a challenging, discomforting rite of passage that we all go through – and yet rarely does... Read more

How an 88-Year-Old Former Architect Bucked Convention and Sexism to Live Her Best Creative Life

06/26/19

By Justin Sanders

Spotlighting the vital contributions of the creative community is part of our mission at CreativeFuture – especially when those contributions might not be so clear to everyone else. That’s why we’re delighted to now present 88-year-old Marilyn Kagan, whose lifetime of creative output represents the epitome of flying under the... Read more

American Dreamer: The Remarkable Rise of Undocumented Filmmaker and Creative Director Samantha Ramirez-Herrera

05/29/19

By Justin Sanders

Even for the most well-adjusted among us, high school is a time when it’s easy to slip into loneliness, depression, and even despair. For Samantha Ramirez-Herrera, whose family moved to Arizona from Mexico when she was six years old, such feelings were a foregone conclusion. “High school was when I started... Read more

How to Finish Your Passion Project (Even if it Takes 7 Years) – a Conversation with Filmmaker Michael Sucsy

04/25/19

By Justin Sanders

The word “passion” came up a lot during our interview with filmmaker Michael Sucsy, and for good reason. If ever there was a career origin story attesting to the power of following’s one passion over the easy path, it’s his. Sucsy’s Grey Gardens (HBO, 2009) dramatized the real-life story made... Read more

How a Trombone Player Became a Sought-After Hollywood Composer – A Conversation with Jeff Morrow (Video)

03/27/19

By Justin Sanders

Every creative working in film has a different story for how they got their break. For Canadian film composer Jeff Morrow, it began with a Google search. “One day, I just decided I was going to drop off a CD of my jazz compositions to someone in the entertainment industry,”... Read more

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