Julie Burstein: Spark - Spark Blog - How Creativity Works

Julie Burstein: Spark - Spark Blog - The Four O'clock Problem

Biography

I'm a writer, media producer and host with a passion for creativity in everyday life. In 2000 I created Studio 360, public radio's premiere program about pop culture and the arts, hosted by Kurt Andersen (www.studio360.org). We won a Peabody Award for our American Icons show about Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, which you can listen to here: http://www.studio360.org/americanicons/episodes/2006/08/18. Studio 360 is produced by Public Radio Internatonal and WNYC.

Over the years, I've also worked as a producer and arts reporter at National Public Radio and with Terry Gross at WHYY, I often… Read more

http://www.studio360.org/2011/feb/18/spark-getting-work/

Spark: How Creativity Works In the book, scores of America's greatest filmmakers, writers, musicians and artists give readers an inside look at their creative processes and inspiration.

This week Kurt and Julie look at the methods artists have for actually getting to work and getting that work done. They revisit Kurt's conversations with novelist Isabel Allende, painter Chuck Close, playwright Tony Kushner, and sculptor Richard Serra.

To hear our original full-length interviews with those artists go here.