Live your creativity. One dose at a time.
Earlier this week I had the opportunity to check out the latest exhibition at the Heights Arts Gallery. Layers features 11 artists who work in collage and exploit this medium in interesting ways.
Some of my favorite pieces in the show were created by Karin Bartimole. Her collaged books are like mini sculptures. Don’t you agree?
Images Heights Arts and Karin Bartimole
After reading Jack’s Notebook, I’ve become more interested in creative problem solving (CPS). It’s definitely a tool worth checking out for solving problems in both life and work with many applications.
Do you know a creative and innovative student in grades 5 -8? Sealed Air and the National Museum of Education are challenging young inventors to find a new use for Bubble Wrap. Entries are now closed and the grand prize was $10,000.
That’s the question Michael Fallon asks in his article How Creativity is Killing the Culture. Fallon explores the relationship between the rise of do it yourself creativity and what he believes is the watering down of culture. Explaining that as interest increases in YouTube and crafting, audiences for “good art” and “real creativity” decline.
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
– – – Pablo Picasso
(Akron Art Museum)
As museum budgets and staffs get smaller, their buildings surprisingly expand. Usually designed by cutting edge architects, they are an to attempt to lure visitors through unique design. Unfortunately, it seems like they are all looking the same; glass and steel structures twisted in contorted shapes. Where is the creativity?
Later this month, I’ll be visiting the new Akron Art Museum. Stay tuned for my review.
A friend, who attended a workshop led by Gregg Fraley, lent me a copy of Jack’s Notebook. I admit I was a little skeptical about the concept: a business novel about creative problem solving (CPS). After reading countless books on creativity, most of them boring or redundant, I was ready for something new.
Jack’s Notebook was just the book I’d been looking for. A cross between Way of the Peaceful Warrior and The Da Vinci Code, it tells the story of Jack, an aimless young man, who meets Manny, a mentor, who teaches him creative problem solving (CPS) which he uses to change the direction of his life.
Fraley outlines the steps of CPS in the introduction:
Then, he goes on to incorporate them into Jack’s decision making, which ultimately leads to him starting his own business – among other thrilling adventures.
You’ll never look at color in the same way after viewing this interactive site that presents an entertaining lesson in color symbolism. It will inspire the way you create.