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:
Pop Art with Pogo
When Warhol first exhibited his thirty–two canvases in 1962, each one simultaneously hung from the wall like a painting and rested on a shelf like groceries in a store. The number of canvases corresponds to [...]
Catalyst Ranch Ranchware
Found and Repurposed by Catalyst Ranch Maybe you had a great brainstorming session here at Catalyst Ranch and want to continue in that creative direction but need some help keeping the energy going? Or maybe [...]
March Giveaway Prize- Tang Lady Statue
Would you like a chance to add a little piece of the Ranch, along with some international flair to your home? Well, the Ranch is offering just that with our latest giveaway prize for the [...]
Stunning animal sculptures created from shattered CDs
Here is a collection of work that just breathes new life into something old. Exactly what we like to see! Artist Sean Avery has come up with what is without a doubt an amazing use [...]
Interview with Erica Hawkinson from Open Books
Tell us about Open Books and the organization’s history. Open Books is a nonprofit social venture that operates an extraordinary bookstore, provides community programs, and mobilizes passionate volunteers to promote literacy in Chicago. Every time [...]
William “Pogo” Shakespeare
Get your copy of our March calendar HERE! The Catalyst Ranch mascot has been transformed into William “Pogo” Shakespeare for this month’s calendar page. He’s not too happy about being bald but “Thou shall be [...]
5 ways to say “Happy Birthday Chicago!”
The City of Chicago celebrates its 175th birthday on March 4, 2012! The celebration falls on the day Chicago's charter was approved by the State of Illinois and became an official city in 1837. At [...]
Collaboration Spurring Creativity in Writing
While crowd sourcing is a hot concept in almost all businesses at the moment, one realm it hasn't touched is the mystical world of novel writing. But a San Francisco-based author came up with an [...]
Interview with WBEZ’s Shannon Heffernan on Making Your Own Job
Freelancers and one-person businesses are a growing part of the workforce. And it’s just not just the journalist and artist we typically associate with freelancing. Educators, miners, construction workers, and cooks—they all have a growing [...]
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:
Pop Art with Pogo
When Warhol first exhibited his thirty–two canvases in 1962, each one simultaneously hung from the wall like a painting and rested on a shelf like groceries in a store. The number of canvases corresponds to [...]
Catalyst Ranch Ranchware
Found and Repurposed by Catalyst Ranch Maybe you had a great brainstorming session here at Catalyst Ranch and want to continue in that creative direction but need some help keeping the energy going? Or maybe [...]
March Giveaway Prize- Tang Lady Statue
Would you like a chance to add a little piece of the Ranch, along with some international flair to your home? Well, the Ranch is offering just that with our latest giveaway prize for the [...]
Stunning animal sculptures created from shattered CDs
Here is a collection of work that just breathes new life into something old. Exactly what we like to see! Artist Sean Avery has come up with what is without a doubt an amazing use [...]
Interview with Erica Hawkinson from Open Books
Tell us about Open Books and the organization’s history. Open Books is a nonprofit social venture that operates an extraordinary bookstore, provides community programs, and mobilizes passionate volunteers to promote literacy in Chicago. Every time [...]
William “Pogo” Shakespeare
Get your copy of our March calendar HERE! The Catalyst Ranch mascot has been transformed into William “Pogo” Shakespeare for this month’s calendar page. He’s not too happy about being bald but “Thou shall be [...]
5 ways to say “Happy Birthday Chicago!”
The City of Chicago celebrates its 175th birthday on March 4, 2012! The celebration falls on the day Chicago's charter was approved by the State of Illinois and became an official city in 1837. At [...]
Collaboration Spurring Creativity in Writing
While crowd sourcing is a hot concept in almost all businesses at the moment, one realm it hasn't touched is the mystical world of novel writing. But a San Francisco-based author came up with an [...]
Interview with WBEZ’s Shannon Heffernan on Making Your Own Job
Freelancers and one-person businesses are a growing part of the workforce. And it’s just not just the journalist and artist we typically associate with freelancing. Educators, miners, construction workers, and cooks—they all have a growing [...]