Art West Agency Launches the Employee Arts Program to Help Employers Foster Innovation

While traditional theory would point to math and science as the basis for quantitative thought, a growing number of today’s educators, entrepreneurs, and business owners understand that art fosters creative problem solving, visualization, and a push-the-envelope mentality. With a paintbrush, an instrument or a pencil, you could evolve the corporate culture, strengthen teamwork, improve business insight, foster emotional intelligence, and ultimately stimulate the next wave of products, clients and revenues. 

According to Harvey White, former president of Qualcomm, “…The humanities, and the arts in particular, stimulate, exercise and train the innovative side of our brains…without that exposure to the stimulus from education in the arts, we do not fully develop use of the innovative power of the brain…”

The San Diego-based Art West Agency believes in art’s ability to enhance the workplace and improve the workforce - thus they've launched the Employee Arts Program to help businesses harness this power. The "Employee Arts Program" is based on artistic work made by employees in conjunction with training seminars and demonstrations specifically geared to provide a corporate context to examine creativity and innovation. Instructors are carefully chosen and are on site to provide guidance with a variety of art and music techniques, discuss the basis for creativity, and recover the creative spirit for meaningful work. Exhibitions are held in corporate and public galleries to demonstrate talents and visions of the employees.

The program is designed to promote corporate sustainability and employee engagement. The enhanced corporate landscape will foster public relations between profit and nonprofit entities, and employ talented artists and musicians. We strive to bring continuity to divergent thinkers, bridge the gap between those who think artistically and creatively, and those who possess a more linear approach to problem solving.

Art West Agency’s "Employee Arts Program" was created by Thomine Wilson, a San Diego artist who holds a masters degree in psychology, and has extensive background in academic, medical, and biopharmaceutical research. She has worked with San Diego thought leaders such as Patricia Frischer, coordinator of the San Diego Visual Arts Network, Felena Hanson, president at Hera Hub, a collaborative workspace for entrepreneurial women, and Terry Williams, a scientist, web designer specializing in web sites for artists and musicians, and music producer at Groove Pie. Together with affiliated artists, instructors, and galleries represented by Art West Agency, Thomine is working to promote the "Employee Arts Program" in San Diego.

For more information, visit Employee Arts Program or contact info@employeeartsprogram.com.