Richard Reiss studied political science and philosophy in the Directed
Studies program at Yale, then graduated with a degree in architecture. He
currently lives and works in New York, where he directs television
commercials for clients including MTV, ESPN, and New York State.

Blog Entries by Richard Reiss

Artist As Citizen: Judge Our Climate Contest

Posted September 23, 2009 | 12:22 PM (EST)


I'm the co-founder of a project first announced in Huffington Post, called Artist As Citizen. We connect art students with donors to help them create projects on social issues. There has been quite a gap in my posting here, but we have been busy.

Now, we have a project...

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Climate, Reality, and the Public Imagination

Posted December 10, 2007 | 07:39 PM (EST)


Having introduced the Artist As Citizen project in my previous post, I plan to use my next couple of entries to explore how, in a free market democracy, individuals and groups acquire beliefs and make choices. How does a free market democracy communicate? What's the difference between being a...

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Artist As Citizen

Posted November 6, 2007 | 04:09 PM (EST)


I'm the co-founder of a project called Artist As Citizen. We connect art students with donors to help them create projects on social issues.

Why?

I can answer this two ways.

One way: about a week before the invasion of Iraq, in March, 2003, I was walking...

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