the idea: add hot chocolate to a homemade chai steamer I’m out of honey. As a tea-drinker in the winter, this is a dangerous thing. Tonight while I was making a chai steamer (by which this culinary artist means meaning milk in a pan with a chai tea bag), I decided not to add any sugar …
the idea: have my current group of kids come up with their own project As one project for one of my many jobs at the MFA I am working with a group of kids to create something for the opening of their music clubhouse. This is a little different from what I normally do when …
the idea: start with a line, make a design Creating chaos is one of my favorite things to do in art. By chaos I mean a mess or a problem that you then have to sort out. That’s what is interesting. Often this means splatters of color, strange combinations of design that fill up a …
the idea: make a story out of Japanese symbols drawn with sumi ink I’ve been doing a lot of classes on Ancient Greek, Rome, and Egypt in my off-site after school groups recently. However there is one boy who has repeatedly asked to look at Asian art. I haven’t taught as much from the Asian …
the idea: capture the morning light in the morning just because it looks nice As the daughter of a technical theater woman, I have spent a lot of my life listening to my mother exclaim about how the light looks at a specific moment. Recently, she has developed the the ability to say exactly what gel …
the idea: sell Devil’s Trap Sticks at Harvard Station For most people who live in a city it’s practically second nature to walk past a street performer. Whoever they are, whatever they’re doing. Today I was getting off the T in Harvard to go teach an off-site art class and I passed a someone doing something …
the idea: write a post about a drawing but get distracted and play with photo inversions instead I’ve been submerged in completely redesigning my thesis. The core remains the same but Don’t Make Art, Just Make Something is being reworked, constantly questioned, and put through just about every mental exercise I can think of. As …
the idea: do three layers of tape drawings For MFA vacation week on Friday I was at the Tape Tricks area. In this activity we told kids to put down tape and then color on top with colored pencil. When they pealed the tape up it would leave behind precise white lines. While I was …
the idea: pull out all of the quotes I starred from my reading I’m starting to get to the serious part of my thesis. Past the fun “I have this brilliant idea!” part, even past the “I can’t wait to get started!” part. I’m in the “Oh crap, what am I actually saying?” part. Thus …
the idea: create a website/online community called Idenation So I’ve been thinking a lot about the Idea Can and I really want to go communal with it but I’m not sure how. Also, ideacan.com is taken so my creative brain is kicking in. Not that my creative brain should be focusing on this right now, …