TY - JOUR
T1 - “I Don’t Take My Tuba to Work at Microsoft”
T2 - Arts Graduates and the Portability of Creative Identity
AU - Lindemann, Danielle J.
AU - Tepper, Steven
AU - Talley, Heather Laine
N1 - Funding Information:
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: The Strategic National Arts Alumni Project (SNAAP) has received funding from the Surdna Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Houston Endowment, the Barr Foundation, the Educational Foundation of America, and the Cleveland Foundation. One author’s work on this project was made possible by a postdoctoral fellowship from the Sociology Department and the Curb Center at Vanderbilt University. The project “Double Majors and Creativity: Influences, Interactions, and Impacts” was undertaken by Richard Pitt and Steven J. Tepper at Vanderbilt University’s Curb Center with support from the Teagle Foundation.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2017, © 2017 SAGE Publications.
PY - 2017/11/1
Y1 - 2017/11/1
N2 - Drawing on data from the Strategic National Arts Alumni Project (N = 13,581) and the Teagle Study of double majors (N = 1,736), we examine how arts alumni and students view their creative skills as transferable across contexts. Based on these preliminary analyses, we find that people with similar training interpret the relationship between their creativity and their work differently. We postulate that variations in creative identity may be one compelling explanation for these differences, which are not attributable solely to job type or to workplace context. Our results suggest, furthermore, that creative identity has both “portable” and “salient” dimensions. We conclude by discussing the implications of our findings for future research on the identity dimensions of creativity.
AB - Drawing on data from the Strategic National Arts Alumni Project (N = 13,581) and the Teagle Study of double majors (N = 1,736), we examine how arts alumni and students view their creative skills as transferable across contexts. Based on these preliminary analyses, we find that people with similar training interpret the relationship between their creativity and their work differently. We postulate that variations in creative identity may be one compelling explanation for these differences, which are not attributable solely to job type or to workplace context. Our results suggest, furthermore, that creative identity has both “portable” and “salient” dimensions. We conclude by discussing the implications of our findings for future research on the identity dimensions of creativity.
KW - artists
KW - arts graduates
KW - creativity
KW - education
KW - identity
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U2 - 10.1177/0002764217734276
DO - 10.1177/0002764217734276
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85037610802
SN - 0002-7642
VL - 61
SP - 1555
EP - 1578
JO - American Behavioral Scientist
JF - American Behavioral Scientist
IS - 12
ER -