Prof wants to bridge business and art worlds
For much of her 30 years teaching at º«¹úÂãÎè,
management professor Nancy Adler kept her artistic side to herself
and, when she donned her painter's cap, she was discreet about
letting her creative colleagues know about her day job.
Today, Adler, who holds the S. Bronfman Chair in Management at º«¹úÂãÎè's Desautels business school, is openly working to combat the unflattering stereotypes that businesspeople and artists still hold about each other.
She is a pioneer in the growing trend to integrate the arts into business education and management training.
An exhibition of about 50 of her works, mostly figurative watercolours on nature themes, is currently at Galerie MX, 333 Viger St. W., sponsored by the management faculty.
As its title, Reality in Translation: Going Beyond the Dehydrated Language of Management, suggests, the goal is to throw cold water on the notion you can't run a business if the sight of a delicately brushed flower touches your soul.
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