Museum of Outdoor Arts
Greenwood Village, Colorado
MOA is an outdoor museum. It has an outdoor art collection of nearly 100 pieces of art, ranging from sculpture to murals. We also host a variety of art events.
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Artist: Todd Siler (b. 1953)
Dr. Todd Siler is the founder and director of Psi-Phi Communications, an Englewood, Colorado based company which develops new creativity and communication tools for accelerating breakthroughs and innovations in companies, schools, communities and individuals. In 1999, Dr. Siler was invited to present his artwork and Think Like a Genius program at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland; he will be returning again this January to continue his program which helps people think, create and perform at their highest level to achieve their goals and dreams.
Todd Siler is a visual artist, author, inventor, educator, and consultant who received his Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Studies in Psychology and Art from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1986. He was the first visual artist to receive a doctorate from the Institute.
Dr. Siler's books include, Think Like a Genius (Bantam, 1997) and Breaking the Mind Barrier (Simon and Schuster, 1990 and Touchstone Books, 1992), which was nominated for the 1994 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Education for "a work of outstanding educational achievement with potential for worldwide impact." Both books have been translated into many languages. Dr. Siler's cartoons, "Truizms," and column, "Everyday Genius," appear weekly in the Denver Rocky Mountain News.
Dr. Siler is a recipient of and I.B.M. Thomas J. Watson Fellowship to Paris, France (1975-76), a Fulbright Fellowship to India (1985-86), and a Meitec Fellowship 1989-91), awarded by the Meitec Corporation in Tokyo, among other fellowships and awards. He received the 1995 11Artist of the Year'' Award from the New York City Teachers Association and United Federation of Teachers. In addition, he holds a number of patents on a wide range of inventions.
Todd Siler has been exhibiting his artworks internationally in major museums and galleries since the early 1980's and is represented by Ronald Feldman Fine Arts in New york City. his artworks are in numerous private and public collections, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (20th Century Collection), the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, the Pushkin Fine Arts Museum in Moscow and the Belsar Verlag Print Archives in Stuttgart and Zurich. His sixth solo exhibition at Ronald Feldman Fine Arts in 1997 included an original composition and performance by the pioneering jazz composer and musician Omette Coleman.
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