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From McCombs Director of Communications David Wenger and ID University

“There is nothing like Glasstire in Texas. There’s not anything like Glasstire in most of the country.”

With those words Rainey Knudson begins a video interview about Glasstire, her online journal of Texas art, recently recognized as a finalist for the National Arts Journalism Summit, the theme of which was “New Models in Arts Journalism.” I view the arts, journalism and non-profit worlds as three environments ripe for fresh, entrepreneurial thinking, so naturally I invited her to chat about these topics here.

Her arts initiative began as a Moot Corp project called Bone & Company when Knudson was an MBA student at McCombs (’97). Moot Corp has a reputation as a high-intensity refiners fire turning budding b-school-entrepreneurs into market killers. In her case the entrepreneurial flame fused her dreams and ambition into Glasstire, now celebrating nine years of relevancy in the Texas arts world. To sum it up in her words, “If you are excited about something and you feel like there’s a real need for it, you should go for it. Life is short.”

To listen to the full interview or read an edited version, click here.