Tilt West’s Roundtable, Deconstructing Creative Genius (Photo credit: Whitney Toutenhoofd)

In Consideration Of A More Ordinary Genius

T\LT WEST
T\LT WEST
Nov 6 · 8 min read

By Marina Eckler, in response to Tilt West’s Roundtable, ​Deconstructing Creative Genius

Several years ago, I interned at a printmaking studio that had been hired to produce prints for a multidisciplinary artist who had recently received a MacArthur Fellowship, commonly known as the Genius Grant. On a hot afternoon, the artist wandered through the print shop in shorts and flip flops. The…

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Tilt West is a new, nonprofit org based in Denver. Our mission is to promote critical discourse focused on arts and culture for our region and beyond.

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