the idea: at least once a week, every week, dedicate one hour of your time to creative activity This was written by my dear friend, Emily Schoenberg, who is an incredibly kind and creative person. Take her words to heart! Creative Hour with my Love – 1/28/13 As a full time employee in a very …
the idea: develop a creative method A lot of thought has been put into science and what it takes to create reliable scientific evidence. The scientific method was one of the outcomes of the Enlightenment, the 17th century intellectual revolution that has shaped our entire intellectual system. Like many others, I was taught the scientific method …
I recently saw an article by the Washington Post about the top 10 skills children learn from the arts. With the ever-constant arguments over fundings and how best to defend against funding cuts, I thought I would add this to the conversation. Valerie Strauss, the author, argues that these are the 10 top skills: 1.) …
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the idea: make a portrait of yourself making something I have always had this love of artists who make paintings of themselves/others painting or what in the art history world we would say, paintings of artists at work. One of my favorites, which I see every time I teach about the Daughter’s of Edward Darley Boit …
the idea: project-specific idea cans (make your own) As silly as this may seem, the idea of the idea can itself has sparked a lot of new ideas. I guess this is the problem when you’re an idea person and you start actually naming things “Idea _____.” It adds up fast. Ah well, as I …
the idea: don’t make art, just make something This idea is actually the title for the book and accompanying workshop that I am creating as my master’s thesis this spring. The seed for it was planted a little less than a year ago when I started thinking of developing a creativity training program that I could …
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the idea: invite a group of art professionals to start a circle Rather than write out a new explanation of this idea I’ll simply show you the email I sent out to a group of incredible women I happen to know. Our new circle is getting ready to form because that’s what happens when you have …
The idea: take a picture of your hand doing something everyday This idea was inspired by a section in Scott Belsky‘s book, Making Ideas Happen, about Noah Kalina‘s project “Everyday.” Everyday has been created twice. In 2006, Kalina uploaded a vide o on youtube with six years worth of pictures. He took one every night …
The idea: make business cards for books On Thursday the thesis seminar for my master’s degree will meet for the first time. For my thesis I plan to write a book and create a workshop that goes along with it. (More to come on that later!) I’m planning to create the whole book by hand …
It’s officially happened, the next big development: the Idea Can That’s right. I’m formalizing this blog. Since December 30th, 2012 I have been blogging a new idea everyday. It’s been over a month now and the habit is formed. Now it’s time to make these blog posts less rambling. You may be thinking, “how on …