EDITOR'S NOTE: This article originally appeared in the June 2008 issue of HOW.
BRINGING ART TO LIFE
Seeing your ideas through another’s eyes is a fundamental part of MasonBaronet’s Jams. Jerde took this a step further and asked his colleagues to see the strengths of their co-workers embodied by an existing work of art.
An afternoon outing to the Nasher Sculpture Center’s gardens helped structure the exercise. Jerde provided simple instructions. “Everyone drew a name of someone else and then they found a sculpture that they felt represented that person. Each person sketched the sculpture and talked a bit about the qualities of the person they had selected.”
“We learned that we have a lot of regard for each other. We raised each other up and saw ourselves in a new way,” Jerde says.
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