We met in the morning for the US Artists Initiative closing session. Only about 25 of us remain, of a group that once numbered 60 with core participants, guests, and senior leaders. We went around and discussed what we would take away from the experience. Staying in touch and maintaining the community we have built was everyone’s first priority.

I said that I didn’t want the blog to die, and intended to check back in with all participants yearly with a short questionnaire – sort of a ripoff of this Atlantic-reported Harvard psych study. If this works, over the years, we’ll have an accumulated database of people’s responses to these questions over time. We can see what the long-term impact is of this project. I’ll be posting the answers to the Q’s on the blog each June. So this won’t be a daily active blog, but rather a growing archive. We’re also going to maintain an email list.

Some of these questions might be:
- What are you working on right now?
- What is a project you’d like to complete within the next 5 years?
- What, if anything, from the US Artists Initiative experience is meaningful to you right now?

M and M and others are going to help me think of good questions that will hold up over time. I think we should do an initial questionnaire now / this July, and then not do the next one till next June.

If response is good, I’ll also put more detail on our Bios page, and links to our companies / photos. It’d be nice to have this site be a more complete picture of us and our work.

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