At Catalyst Ranch, we’ve created an environment that stirs up inspiration and creativity, making corporate meetings infinitely more productive and weddings and special events wildly original.
Welcome to Creative Juice: the Catalyst Ranch blog, where you’ll find:
- our own insights into what makes creative magic happen at Catalyst Ranch
- activities and ideas you can use at home or with your colleagues, to juice up your imagination
- people, places and events around town that will feed your creative spirit
We’re glad to have you here. Now fill up your cup!
Our most recent posts:
SEPTEMBER: Find Inspiration Everywhere
It's really easy to have your blinders up when you're focused on a project. When struggling for an idea, sometimes it's best to take a breath, and be open to possibility. That's what happened for [...]
Local Feature’s THE INTERRUPTERS a smashing success!
Our film series LOCAL FEATURE debuted with The Interrupters last week and the event was a smashing success! Attendees arrived early to munch on some delicious snacks, including the scrumptious cupcakes provided by GiGi's Bake Shop. [...]
Dream Big…But Visualize The Reality
If anyone can attest to the joys (and challenges) of being a creative entrepreneur, it’d be our owner Eva Niewiadomski! In a recent interview with Womenetics, she said: “I worked at Quaker Oats for 15 years. My last year there was post the Pepsi merger with Quaker Oats. As is typical with mergers, the environment is stressful as the organizations try to meld together two disparate cultures. It was just not a good fit anymore for either of us. I took the severance package and decided to take this once in a lifetime opportunity and start my own business.”
SNEAK PEEK: “The Interrupters” special screening on 8/24
The award-winning Kartemquin Films documentary about violence prevention was the Chicago movie of 2011. In this stirring and powerfully insightful year-long journey through Chicago’s inner city, director/producer Steve James (HOOP DREAMS) and author-turned-producer Alex Kotlowitz [...]
Monthly Giveaway Prize – Cubic Fun Big Ben Puzzle
BIG BEN 3D Puzzle Hey there, sports fans! Are you disappointed that you were not able to be in London for the Olympic Games this year? Well, cheer up friends, because the Ranch is offering [...]
The inspiration behind “Local Feature” & “The Interrupters”
Chicago is a wonderful city with a flourishing arts scene. With so many aspiring filmmakers to pass through our ranks and having collaborated with established filmmakers on other projects, we were inspired this past [...]
Meet the inspiration for THE INTERRUPTERS
CeaseFire is the subject of the powerful documentary "The Interrupters," which is the first film in our film series LOCAL FEATURE. CeaseFire is an anti-violence program and initiative of the Chicago Project for Violence Prevention aimed at reducing street violence by using outreach workers to interrupt potentially violent situations. Check out this post from their blog:
Catalyst Ranch Designed Cubicle
From Drab to Fab... the Catalyst Ranch design team does it again. Dessa, our 2012 spring winner, now happily enjoys her newly improved desk. Dessa vocalized a desire that one wall of her long cubicle [...]
Interview with Jeff Marinucci, President of inerTRAIN &Executive Producer of Taking the Lunge
Our friend, Jeff Marinucci, wowed us with his innovative, customized and online training program that works with clients to create a unique fitness schedule. We asked Jeff about his business, inerTrain, and his new reality [...]
At Catalyst Ranch, we’ve created an environment that stirs up inspiration and creativity, making corporate meetings infinitely more productive and weddings and special events wildly original.
Welcome to Creative Juice: the Catalyst Ranch blog, where you’ll find:
- our own insights into what makes creative magic happen at Catalyst Ranch
- activities and ideas you can use at home or with your colleagues, to juice up your imagination
- people, places and events around town that will feed your creative spirit
We’re glad to have you here. Now fill up your cup!
Our most recent posts:
SEPTEMBER: Find Inspiration Everywhere
It's really easy to have your blinders up when you're focused on a project. When struggling for an idea, sometimes it's best to take a breath, and be open to possibility. That's what happened for [...]
Local Feature’s THE INTERRUPTERS a smashing success!
Our film series LOCAL FEATURE debuted with The Interrupters last week and the event was a smashing success! Attendees arrived early to munch on some delicious snacks, including the scrumptious cupcakes provided by GiGi's Bake Shop. [...]
Dream Big…But Visualize The Reality
If anyone can attest to the joys (and challenges) of being a creative entrepreneur, it’d be our owner Eva Niewiadomski! In a recent interview with Womenetics, she said: “I worked at Quaker Oats for 15 years. My last year there was post the Pepsi merger with Quaker Oats. As is typical with mergers, the environment is stressful as the organizations try to meld together two disparate cultures. It was just not a good fit anymore for either of us. I took the severance package and decided to take this once in a lifetime opportunity and start my own business.”
SNEAK PEEK: “The Interrupters” special screening on 8/24
The award-winning Kartemquin Films documentary about violence prevention was the Chicago movie of 2011. In this stirring and powerfully insightful year-long journey through Chicago’s inner city, director/producer Steve James (HOOP DREAMS) and author-turned-producer Alex Kotlowitz [...]
Monthly Giveaway Prize – Cubic Fun Big Ben Puzzle
BIG BEN 3D Puzzle Hey there, sports fans! Are you disappointed that you were not able to be in London for the Olympic Games this year? Well, cheer up friends, because the Ranch is offering [...]
The inspiration behind “Local Feature” & “The Interrupters”
Chicago is a wonderful city with a flourishing arts scene. With so many aspiring filmmakers to pass through our ranks and having collaborated with established filmmakers on other projects, we were inspired this past [...]
Meet the inspiration for THE INTERRUPTERS
CeaseFire is the subject of the powerful documentary "The Interrupters," which is the first film in our film series LOCAL FEATURE. CeaseFire is an anti-violence program and initiative of the Chicago Project for Violence Prevention aimed at reducing street violence by using outreach workers to interrupt potentially violent situations. Check out this post from their blog:
Catalyst Ranch Designed Cubicle
From Drab to Fab... the Catalyst Ranch design team does it again. Dessa, our 2012 spring winner, now happily enjoys her newly improved desk. Dessa vocalized a desire that one wall of her long cubicle [...]
Interview with Jeff Marinucci, President of inerTRAIN &Executive Producer of Taking the Lunge
Our friend, Jeff Marinucci, wowed us with his innovative, customized and online training program that works with clients to create a unique fitness schedule. We asked Jeff about his business, inerTrain, and his new reality [...]