Kevin Goradia, the owner and founder of Crux Climbing Center, is super passionate about climbing. He’s climbed his whole life, and he worked as a route setter when he was younger. But when you talk to him about his business he mostly talks about creating a community.Since I am obsessed with trying to understand the creative process people go through when they are building things, meeting Kevin got me to wondering about the creativity behind building a business that is focused on community.

Kevin Snipes is an subtle anomaly. He is soft spoken and laughs easily. His porcelain sculptures are populated by hand-drawn cartoon-like characters, that gently poke and prod at issues of love, race and communication in the modern world.

Dotan Negrin is one of those people who thought of something kinda crazy and just did it. In 2008, Dotan had just gotten out of college to find the economy in a tailspin. He decided to take his Piano Around The World.

I’ve always loved exploring in the woods. When I was a kid I built lean-tos and forts in the little wooded park in our neighborhood. These are exactly the kind of memories that came up walking through Patrick Dougherty’s new sculpture in Austin. Patrick knows this, and he talks about weaving peoples’ fantasies into his work – fantasies about native cultures, the Garden of Eden and kissing under a lilac bush.