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Tag: creativity
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Art-Making is Your Birthright
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When it comes to the art community, I fiercely defend everyone’s right to create, explore, make mistakes, and share their journey. Creativity belongs to every single one of us. It’s a human birthright. From ancient handprints in the caves of France to weird contemporary art, the title of artist is…
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Process Over Outcome
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Last week, I went to a dress rehearsal for Enno Poppe’s musical composition Strom. The piece sounded like an orchestra tuning its strings, or a child’s first concert: discordant, uncomfortable, and strange. (Listen to a small sample of it here.) Poppe created the piece by stretching single intervals — the…
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Messy May 2023
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Over the weekend I took part in a Creative Hour conversation with Caylee Grey, Meg of Meg Journals, Claudette Hasenjager and more than 100 other art journalers. Caylee is the founder of Get Messy, and Claudette, Meg, and I are three of thirty artists leading this year’s Messy May, a…
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Hey, Artist
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I have heard from a number of people over the course of my own creative journey who’ve said something along the lines of “I’m not an artist, but I’m interested in starting an art journal [or painting, or exploring collage]. Where do I begin?” First up: yeah, actually, you are…
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Bird by Bird
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I just finished reading Anne Lamott’s insightful (and wickedly funny) Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life.