In 1968, NASA hired George Land and Beth Jarman to assess the imagination and creative potential of NASA engineers and rocket scientists. After developing an effective test for NASA, Dr. Land gave the test to children ages 4-5.                98% of those children scored at the genius level of imagination and creativity. Surprised and inspired, Dr. Land tested the same children five years and ten years later. Five years later however, only 30% of the same children displayed a genius level. Ten years later, when they were about 15 years old, it was down to 12%. Then he tested a group...

CZT Family Tree We always say that the Zentangle Method attracts really awesome people. We have had the pleasure of working with wonderful Certified Zentangle Teachers (CZT) all over the world and we are excited to share these wonderful people with the entire Zentangle Community. Through our series, CZT Family Tree, we will introduce individual CZTs.   Today, we are excited to introduce Paige Scheinberg! -----+----- Name: Paige Scheinberg                                         CZT#: 17 Hometown:  Memphis, TN          Favorite tangle: Drupe (it’s a mandala, of course!) Favorite place to tangle: Anywhere with a cup of coffee or tea and a pouch of tiles and...

In 2007, we started BLOG Zentangle and began our enjoyable series of conversations within our Zentangle community. In reading through these blog posts with their insightful comments, we decided to bring a few of them to your attention from time to time. It is easy, for me anyway, to sometimes think of old information as stale information. But these insights and conversations are anything BUT stale! We invite you to go back to the Twilight [Zen]Zone with this post from 2013... Begin previous post . . . Maria writes: My thoughts were wandering recently (actually they wander quite often, without...