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Sebastien Paquet writes eloquently about and practices powerfully many skills of the social artist though he doesn't call it that. He talks about "networked cocreation."

It appears that Barbara Ganly is interested in so many topics that I love to learn about. I'm glad she has joined our social artistry group and I'll have a chance to learn more from her. "After all, a healthy community is a basic premise through which deep learning and meaningful work come to life.  And yet it has been the messiness, the shifting, emergent nature of geographic communities and online communities outside the structure of semesters, grades, classes, disciplines, departments and majors that has really brought home for me how and why we need story to make sense out of the maelstrom of sensation and information-to slow down the rush of impressions, to make us confront our biases and fears and habits, and how we need storytelling to connect us and to build trust and curiosity and to push us past the façade of what we think we know so we can immerse ourselves in meaningful, creative work to bring better worlds into being".

Hans Rosling is the Co-founder of the Gapminder Foundation. The way he presents data is astounding. I'm able to understand (to a point) complicated issues that would take me years of study to comprehend. I think his social artistry skill is his ability to use visualizations of data to quickly bring greater awareness to people.  Gapminder is a non-profit foundation based in Stockholm. Our goal is to replace devastating myths with a fact-based worldview. Our method is to make data easy to understand. We are dedicated to innovate and spread new methods to make global development understandable, free of charge, without advertising. We want to let teachers, journalists and everyone else continue to freely use our tools, videos and presentations.

Wow, Hans Rosling's data presentation is mind blowing! Here's a link to one of his TEDtalks http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/hans_rosling_shows_the_best_stats_you_ve_ever_seen.html You've found a beautiful example of social artistry making data visible in ways that tell a story - Thank you Brent. I am inspired!