Elizabeth Stevens has been researching Jim Henson’s unique style of artist-entrepreneurship for the past two years. You can read some of her findings here:
Weekend at Kermie’s | The Awl
Is It Muppetational? | Rolling Stone
Three Muppet Conflicts | Electric Literature
Big Bird Is History | The Millions
Thank you to the editors of Wired, Longreads.com, Longform.org, IMDB, Readers Digest, Brainpickings, Mother Jones, The Rumpus, Explosion-Proof, IFC, Rolling Stone, Electric Literature, The Millions, and The Awl for getting so many eyes to see this work
Elizabeth Stevens is writing a book
From Publisher’s Marketplace:
Professor of “Muppets, Mickey, and Money” at Boston University Elizabeth Stevens’s MAKE ART MAKE MONEY: How Jim Henson’s Uncommon Entrepreneurship Can Inspire a Generation of Creatives, a new kind of business book for artists, innovators, and anyone who uses creativity in their work, taking Gen X hero Henson as a model for the successful Artist-Entrepreneur, to Julia Cheiffetz and Carly Hoffmann at Amazon Publishing, at auction, by Jason Allen Ashlock at Movable Type Management.
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