{"id":44416,"date":"2015-12-02T02:10:46","date_gmt":"2015-12-02T02:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=44416"},"modified":"2015-12-02T20:18:59","modified_gmt":"2015-12-02T20:18:59","slug":"keep-it-simple-at-tedxindianapolis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=44416","title":{"rendered":"Keep It Simple at TEDxIndianapolis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Keep It Simple at TEDxIndianapolis<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The Indianapolis Star<\/a>
\n2015-10-21<\/p>\n

Leslie Bailey<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWhen asked how he created his masterpiece, Michelangelo<\/a> said, \u2018It was easy. You just chip away that which does not look like David<\/a>.\u2019 What if our lives are our masterpiece? What if we chipped away all that was unnecessary, all the clutter and the busyness, and focused on that which really mattered \u2014 our passions and our relationships.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is the \u201cbig idea\u201d Maura Malloy will share when she takes the stage at TEDxIndianapolis<\/a> on Tuesday. Malloy, 36, is among approximately 20 speakers who will present their ideas at the conference with the theme of \u201cKeep It Simple.\u201d Other speakers include a homeless advocate, an origami artist, a musician and a handful of professors…<\/p>\n

…In her talk, Malloy will share her journey to a minimalist lifestyle<\/a>, as well as tools on how everyone can create their own \u201cmasterpiece\u201d life. For Malloy, the spark ignited during a semester studying in India<\/a> during her sophomore year at the University of Notre Dame. She was allowed one 40-pound bag of belongings for the semester. \u201cIt opened my eyes to how little you need to be joyful, especially when it comes to children,\u201d said Malloy, who is expecting her first child in November…<\/p>\n

…Malloy, who grew up in South Bend<\/a>, moved to New York City<\/a> when she was 25 to pursue a career in acting. She ultimately turned to screenwriting, which she continued doing after moving back to Indiana<\/a> with her husband, Rory Collins, 2012.<\/p>\n

She currently has two projects in development with actress Tessa Thompson<\/a> attached to both films. The first, \u201cAn Illuminated Life\u201d [See: An Illuminated Life: Bella da Costa Greene\u2019s Journey from Prejudice to Privilege<\/em><\/a>]\u00a0is a biopic about Belle da Costa Greene<\/a>, an African-American woman who lived as a white woman<\/a> while working as J.P. Morgan\u2019s<\/a> right-hand woman at the turn of the century.<\/strong> The other project, \u201cOur Rebels,\u201d is a smaller, independent film Malloy describes as a \u201cplatonic love story.\u201d…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Keep It Simple at TEDxIndianapolis The Indianapolis Star 2015-10-21 Leslie Bailey \u201cWhen asked how he created his masterpiece, Michelangelo said, \u2018It was easy. You just chip away that which does not look like David.\u2019 What if our lives are our masterpiece? What if we chipped away all that was unnecessary, all the clutter and the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,8,6462,20],"tags":[1428,22145,1429,22143,22146,19672,22144],"class_list":["post-44416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-usa","tag-belle-da-costa-greene","tag-indianapolis-star","tag-j-p-morgan","tag-leslie-bailey","tag-maura-malloy","tag-tessa-thompson","tag-the-indianapolis-star"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44416"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44425,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44416\/revisions\/44425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}