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Looking for that one-of-a-kind piece of artwork to set off a lobby or make a lasting impression in your office suite – a sculpture, piece of architectural glass, or wrought-iron railing, perhaps? Toni Sikes, founder of The Guild and its successor, Artful Home, has a new venture called The Art Commission, which could make your search much easier. |
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Building on its reputation as a deep thinker’s paradise, Promega and the BTC Institute’s annual International Bioethics Forum, scheduled for April 25-26 in Madison, will focus again this year on human consciousness, zeroing in on human creativity and its role in forging new ideas, products, processes, and artistic expressions. Among the speakers at this year’s conference will be Wisconsin Institute for Discovery Director David Krakauer; Steve Paulson, executive producer of WPR’s To the Best of Our Knowledge; Promega Corp. CEO William Linton; author, Buddhist monk (and French interpreter for the Dalai Lama) Matthieu Ricard; and cartoonist and creativity maven Lynda Barry. |
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When it comes to the strange, inspiring history of Madison’s Raven Software, you can pretty much pick whichever story suits you: Either the company was a fantastic, head-spinning success right out of the gate, or it was the clear embodiment of Thomas Edison’s famous axiom that genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. For Brian Raffel, Raven’s studio head and one of its two co-founders (with his brother Steve), Edison’s recipe is probably closer to the truth, though there was plenty of luck and magic in the mix to help sustain this lifelong gamer’s dream. |
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