The Burntsienna Calibrations : Summer 2026 Cohort 🌞— registration now open through Monday 14 June. Cohort begins Wednesday 24 June (in person and virtual).
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For design-led studio practices, mission-driven orgs, fine art practices, and cultural enterprises.
The Burntsienna Calibrations is a ten (10) week cohort for founders to visualize internal values and calibrate outputs & offerings to match — bridging the gap between what is ‘known’, and what is integrated into practice & demonstrated consistently.
Thanks to hosting with @meadowhlp , sessions meet in person in Los Angeles (Highland Park) and virtually on Wednesday evenings 6:30p PST sharp.
Led by @jasonecwright of Burntsienna Research Society, each week will interrogate a specific segment of focus :
Session 1 - Introductions & Origins
Session 2 - Codes & Signatures
Session 3 - Audience & Community
Session 4 - Visual Language & Reference
Session 5 - Market Segment & Positioning
Session 6 - Offerings & Deliverables
Session 7 - Ethics, Viability, & Presentation
Session 8 - Org Chart & Operations
Session 9 - Copywriting & Conversational Prep
Session 10 - Closing Talks : ‘The Burntsienna Conversations’ (public panel)
Our Summer Cohort culminates in ‘The Burntsienna Conversations ‘— a group panel discussion & dialogue on our respective practices, with new verbiage, clear references and media practice.
Post-cohort, these research exercises can become revised internal manuals for SOP’s, organization, pitch decks and more, as well as becoming a member of an extensive, creatively diverse alumni network of peers for support and further growth.
Registration limited to 12 seats.
Enrollment link in bio.
burntsienna.org/calibrations
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We look forward to welcoming you to join us this summer of warm expansion.
#designstudios #fineartpractice #leadershipdevelopment #softskillsdevelopment #brandidentity
recent sessions | Burntsienna Research Library
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Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays | AM or PM Session Blocks
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reserve a session for independent research (individual) or design team offsite (up to 5). link in bio, or directly at burntsienna.org/research
This weekend, I’ll be moderating a few panels at @butterartfair LA, in the beautiful city of Inglewood.
If you’re familiar with our work at @burntsiennaresearchsociety , you know my affinity for origin stories and philosophy around the human element in art, design, and culture. And if you know me from Indy, well, you already know (shared stories later).
We look forward to having you all join us @butterartfair in the Listening Room; find schedule for our particular talks below.
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Saturday 28 February
3:00p — Creative in Motion: Move to Empower Motivational Coaching Session : in conversation with @angelamanueldavis
6:30p — Art, Beauty and Civic Transformation Ahead of the Olympics : in conversation with @destinationcrenshaw
Sunday 1 March
3:00p — Learning in Public : Imagination, Pressure, and Process : in conversation with @blenartistryllc , @israelsoloart , and @wcmtl
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tickets for @butterartfair LA at link in their bio.
we look forward to welcoming you in.
been thinking about what it means to be a light in the dark. not a beacon or a leader, but a lighthouse that either informs how close one is to the shore in a storm (caution) or proof that a shore still exists and is closer the one thinks in a storm (hope).
and I don’t know that I have any of the answers. for anything.
what I do have is a heart for humanity and a spirit of discernment and curiosity to always seek the better quality questions in any circumstance.
and I realize there is power in that.
peace within that. possibility within that. hope within that.
and I do not hold a monopoly on hope.
hope is for us all.
to paraphrase Krista Tippet, hope is muscular.
hope requires work.
hope requires effort.
hope requires motion.
yet it also requires stillness.
hope needs to be enrolled in. daily.
hourly.
chosen.
and in that choice, hope gets witnessed.
once witnessed, it can be emulated.
embraced. embodied. identified. acknowledged.
and once acknowledged, hope can spread.
I choose to be hopeful.
not out of idealism.
but out of the muscular effort required to keep walking to the tip of the lighthouse, polish the mirrors, light the torches, and keep the light shining wherever I am, however I can, including for myself.
because my favourite coping mechanism I have identified in metalled is that the worse I am feeling internally, the more I try to show up and be kind for others externally. in the hope I can vicariously see proof of what hope does go them and maybe experience a semblance of that same joy reflected back.
because once hope is witnessed, it spreads.
so I’ll keep showing up.
where I can. when I can. how I can.
because sometimes when we are in the dark
and can’t find the light, we are the one holding it.
