Program Director Lynn Book
Lynn Book is Director of the Program for Creativity and Innovation with the Office of Entrepreneurship and Liberal Arts and Visiting Associate Professor with the Department of Theatre and Dance at Wake Forest University. She is an innovative educator, performance artist, entrepreneur and creativity specialist who relocated from New York City to Winston-Salem, North Carolina in the fall of 2005. During her time at Wake Forest, she has developed exciting new courses, organized several dynamic public forums and events that conjoin diverse disciplinary areas and WFU campuses with greater regional and national communities. She has won several awards that include the Archie Fund for Faculty Excellence, The Creativity and Innovation Fund of the Pro Humanitate Center and two Ethics, Leadership and Civic Responsibility awards to assist with launching the Program for Creativity and Innovation and the national symposium, “Creativity: Worlds in the Making” slated for March 18 – 20, 2009. She was awarded the first “Excellence in Entrepreneurship” award for the development of the initial “Foundations in Creativity and Innovation”, 2006.
For over twenty years Book has inspired students, professionals, businesses and institutions in a broad range of settings to venture new models of creative engagement and innovation. Her belief in a critical creativity as the most essential ingredient in the vitality and sustainability of contemporary culture has led her to develop dynamic initiatives based on her vibrant interdisciplinary approach. Book founded Voicelab, an educational and cultural center, in New York City in 1999 through which she taught, coached and produced multifaceted events featuring innovative approaches to performance and new media. She has taught at Sarah Lawrence College, Barnard College, New York University, Columbia College in Chicago, among others.
Lynn has been a change maker and an important voice in the navigation of new interdisciplinary practices and hybrid forms of cultural production and entrepreneurship. She has contributed to the development of groundbreaking programs that foster innovations in performance and new media in Chicago: The School of the Art Institute (1985-95), in New York City: The Sidney Kahn Kitchen Summer Institute (2000-05) and in Austria at the Transart Institute, Europe’s first low-residency MFA program for new media, where she continues as an associate since it’s inception in 2005.
To read an interview with Lynn Book for the Art Entrepreneurship Educator's Network: Preserving America's Arts Capital see: http://www.ae2n.net/page5/page16/page16.htm
For more information on her professional artistic output see: www.lynnbook.com
For more information on Transart Institute see: www.transartinstitute.org
