Giving Compass' Take:

• Rosemarie Truman argues how nonprofits are actively working to bring both artists and art-inspired design into the high-tech startup world.

• How can nonprofits encourage the arts? 

• Here's an article on embedding art and artists in the bureaucracy. 

When I think of artists, I think of performers, visual artists such as painters, and applied artists such as designers.

Now, more than ever before, startups are becoming something more than just Silicon Valley businesses that improve smartphones, let your car brake for you and give Alexa something witty to say. Instead, nonprofits are actively working to bring both artists and art-inspired design into the high-tech startup world.

Here are two organizations that are on the front lines of injecting artists into high-tech startups:

The Walton Family Foundation

Since the Walton Arts Center opened almost 30 years ago, it has been a strong supporter of all types of artistic endeavors in the region. The community of artists in the Northwest Arkansas region continues to grow every day, and the diversity of that community grows, as well. In 2011, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art opened. It provides exhibits, programs and a world-class level of architecture. Alice Walton was the visionary behind it.

CODAME

Another example of a nonprofit that is injecting art and artists into the high-tech world is actually a partner of ours: CODAME. This organization conducts events that blend art and technology in systematic ways. That means cultivating artists and technology gurus and showing them how a blending of their worlds can offer more to both of those worlds. The whole is more than the sum of the parts when technology and art are merged. Answers are not required at CODAME, but questions are encouraged. By valuing these questions, the organization creates spaces that encourage discovery and exploration.

Read the full article about injecting artists into high tech startups by Rosemarie Truman at Forbes.