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In a recent pilot workshop, the SMFA, in partnership with MIT’s Sloan School of Management, offered MBA students an experimental one-day workshop on the visual arts designed to boost creative problem solving and promote new ways of approaching business problems. In 21st Century Visual Arts Workshop for Business Leaders, MFA candidates and faculty members from the Museum School introduced 12 MIT Sloan students to key visual arts skills through a series of exercises. The MBA students worked with animation, cartoon story boarding, and color collage creation using various digital, analogue, and hard copy techniques. “Artists in the past few centuries have utilized knowledge and skills beyond the traditional ‘media’ myth,” said David Kelley (Dip ‘70, FY ‘71), the SMFA faculty member who led the workshop. “It is with this spirit that the SMFA and MIT collaborated on this pilot project to stretch the meaning of cross- and interdisciplinary, acknowledging existing skill sets in an MBA program as the raw content materials from which to develop artistic statements.” 21st Century Visual Arts was offered through MIT’s annual Sloan Innovation Period, which provides students and faculty the time and flexibility to experience classes outside the boundaries of ordinary classrooms and course schedules. “The MIT Leadership Center is committed to innovative initiatives at the cutting edge of leadership education,” said MIT Sloan Professor Deborah Ancona. “We’re proud to be partnering with the SMFA and enabling today’s business students to have hands-on experience with new perspectives, skills, and ideas.” To learn more about this innovative partnership, read BusinessWeek’s “Creativity Comes to Business School” or “Sloan students explore art of business.“
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