Trade School at the Whitney

If you're in New York this Friday, March 25, don't miss Trade School at the Whitney Museum of American Art. To quote from Trade School's website:

Trade School is a non-traditional learning environment that offers classes on techniques and tactics in exchange for a variety of goods and services. For one night only, Trade School will hold 16 classes inside the Whitney Museum. As payment for the class, students bring objects they’ve made, to be prominently displayed.

One of the sixteen classes being offered is "Monday Painter/Sunday Banker" taught by our very own Amy Whitaker. Though her class is full, there looks to be a lot of other intriguing options. Reading and weaving anyone?

Learn more and sign up here!

Legs

Author-extraordinaire Amy Whitaker is on the final leg of her national book tour for Museum Legs. For those of you in Pittsburgh or anywhere near it, Amy will be giving a lecture and book signing at the Warhol tomorrow night at 7pm. Amy's spent the better part of two and a half months driving an enormous loop around the country, and though the trip itself is almost over you can catch up and follow along on her blog, where it's still joyfully only early October and she's only in Arkansas.

As much as about museums, Museum Legs is also Amy's exploration of, and paean to, creativity in everyday life. Her tour was no different. Much more than a standard issue slog from bookstore to bookstore, Amy also visited schools, museums, foundations, and corporate headquarters (including Google) and spoke as much about her unique vision of the creative, art-full world as she did about the specifics of the words on the page. I wish I could have been there throughout, but as a publisher and of course one of Amy's biggest fans, it's a joy even to watch (or at least read) from afar.