The Language of Creativity: A Visual Art Workshop
Have you ever had the experience of not making your art because you felt creativity wasn’t speaking to you? We all have had this, but the fact is, creativity is accessible to us every time we go to our studios. We don’t have to depend on a spark or inspiration. It is there if we invite it. This workshop is about developing a closer relationship with creativity so it shows up when you want it to. It is about understanding the language of creativity, how it operates in our minds and our hearts. We will use guided exercises that demonstrate how creativity functions. And since your artmaking is unique to YOU, so is this workshop. While making new experimental work, we will teach ourselves to keep creativity present in our studio practice every day.
“If I want Creativity to join me, all I have to do is ask. But I have to be ready, because she’s going to be an interactive collaborator in my art from the time she comes in, until I ask her to leave.” Fran Gardner
This workshop welcomes artists of all mediums. However, if your process is very slow like pieced quilting, or needs space like welding or large sculpture, you might consider using this time and process to develop ideas for later work. If you have taken one of Fran’s creativity workshops before, come back – every workshop offers new information on accessing creativity.
Objectives
- To analyze the type of images to which you are intuitively drawn, helping us to understand your creative language
- To create art that looks at new ways to build on your established voice and deepen personal expression
- To leave the workshop with an understanding of how to stay engaged with creativity in your own studio
- To experiment with the exercises to see which ones you can use in your studio
Supplies
Fran will bring LOTS of supplies, but she also knows artists need their own stuff. Artists need to bring supplies to work on a minimum of 3 projects in any materials you wish. If you tend to work fast, bring more supplies. Fran is available to consult with you on materials prior to the workshop. Please bring materials with which you are familiar, and you work with regularly. Or you can rely solely on what she brings and lighten your load.
She will provide paint, paper, markers, pencils, pastels, brushes, and other studio staples.
The minimum that each artist needs to bring: scissors, 10 pages of images to which you are attracted, torn from magazines