September 2, 2016

Events, How the Arts Influence Business

(Sun. 9/25) How Innovative Entrepreneurship Can Help Africans Tell Our Stories

Join Us on Sunday, September 25 @ 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm for Defining Our Time: Creative Entrepreneurship Panel at National Museum of African Art. For full details, click here.     Inspired by the exhibition Senses of Time, explore how members …

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Tags: '"Arts + Business", "creative engagement", "Creative Entrepreneurship', "National Museum of African Art", "Senses of Time", "Who tells your story", African Diaspora, art exhibition, Esosa E., Femi Ogunijinmi, Jacqueline Lara, Joy Spencer, ownership, Patrick Kabanda, Smithsonian, storytelling, Tsedaye Makonnen

July 19, 2016

My Happy Is Documentary, News and Artists

New Mini Doc-Series, My Happy Is Captures People’s Simple Pleasures

For Immediate Release                                                                                                          MEDIA CONTACT July 19, 2016                                                                                          Jacqueline Lara, [email protected]                                                                                                                                                                     240-305-2133   Washington, D.C., July, 19, 2016–Today, the ArtFullness Project and Time Traveling Media release their debut mini doc-series, My Happy Is, which explores how 40 people in the Washington, …

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Tags: "My Happy Is", Anacostia, arts, balloons, Baltimore, childhood memories, chocolate, dance, Dupont Circle, experimental documentary, friendship, happiness, happy fix, human connection, life, memorabilia, parenthood, relationships, sibling bond, Silver Spring, storytelling, Washington D.C.

July 14, 2016

Creative Process, News and Artists

Why Every Visual Artist Should be a Great Storyteller

By Jacqueline Lara (This post originally appeared on 99u) So you’re a visual artist and you rely on the visual element of your work to sell it and captivate viewers in a single glance. But while art does indeed speak …

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Tags: “Mama’s Day Our Way”, “power of storytelling”, “Start with why”, “Strong Families Foward Together”, “word-of-mouth marketing”, behind the scenes, Chucha Marquez, Creative Process, daily rituals, Don Rimx, Gwenn Seemel, Kirsty Elson, marketing your work, Mason Currey, Simon Sinek, storytelling, visual artists

June 20, 2015

My Happy Is Documentary

Happiness from a Stranger

This post originally appeared on LinkedIn In the words of Alice Walker, hard times require furious dancing, and I couldn’t agree more. Over the past year, the killing of unarmed black youth and the Charleston AME massacre that carelessly took …

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Tags: Anacostia, Baltimore, childhood memories, Creative Process, D.C., documentary, family, happiness, human connection, inspiration, love, Photography, relationships, Silver Spring, state of mind, storytelling, Time Traveling Media, video

January 8, 2014

Arts in the Workplace

Storytelling and Improv

Nanda Abella, one of our Improv facilitators, is an Argentinean actress based in New York City. Before deciding to become a full-time professional actress, she worked in the field of international relations and communications. As a professional actress, her credits …

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Tags: improv, storytelling, video