DSCS
Daniel SharpFieldnotes from a community strategist.
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Imbolc Part One: A Field Guide
Cotton candy by artist Kirby Shoote for Imbolc 2026. Image courtesy Daniel Sharp.
Preface One: this piece is slightly different than my usual essays. If you care about fighting the loneliness epidemic with art, care, and co-creation, read...
On stewarding fields
A quick aside!
Apart from writing this newsletter, playing on the Lot Radio, and doing client work (lately Michigan Central’s Art Program), I’m deep in fundraising mode for one of my quickly scaling projects, Imbolc. It’s a festival of mus...
On Physical Stuff
Two verbs—connect and retreat—seem to have flipped definitions lately. It’s as if they’re in a dance of doublethink: what was once seen as “connecting” with people online now means to retreat from the lived reality around us, superglued to...
Recipe 03: AI as juicer
If you’ve lived with me, you know I don’t stock juice in my kitchen. Most often I fill my fridge with half-finished condiments; leftover coffee (that I re-market back to myself as “iced”); a thing of milk; homemade stock; veggies from my CS...
Things That are Working Outside of My Inbox
I returned recently to Grace Lee Boggs. Everything in my inbox seems to be Not Working, yet everything beyond it Is Working, and I needed her help to understand why. As systems collapse and values evaporate, a significant portion of the onl...
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Artist and musician. I write about time, rituals, tech, and the creative economy. // Principal at DSCS, an art & tech consultancy that scales great ideas from 57 startups, artists, and social impact organizers // Ex-Kickstarter, 92NY, Whitney Museum.
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