ART…. 1. TEACHES US HOW TO RESIST FORCES THAT MUTE OUR LIGHT. Art shows us how to resist forces that teach passivity and acquiescence. 2. EXPRESSES IDEAS that can’t be expressed any other way. 3. TAKES US SOMEWHERE. We’re moved beyond where we were a moment before. 4. CREATES NEW WORLDS. Art allows us to [ Read more … ]
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5 secret gifts of the arts
Personal Growth: 5 Secret Gifts of the Arts 1. The arts give us experiences of depth and insight that we can’t get from other sources. 2. The arts teach us how to work within a material. All art forms employ some means through which inner images and visions can become real. 3. Through their capacity [ Read more … ]
For meaningful change we need the potency of the creative.
Artists have always been at the forefront of anything new. Freud confirmed this when he said that no matter where his research led, a poet had already been there ahead of him. When I work with clients, it’s so apparent that deep creativity is not of the head or thinking mind. It comes from an [ Read more … ]
Pay attention to the spaces
In music, the space between the notes is what creates the melody. The beauty of a piece is formed in the pauses, the spaces in-between. I’ve always been fascinated by these “spaces in-between” and have explored and written about them extensively in teaching (check out my book Getting Messy), art (check out my book Deep [ Read more … ]
“If there is no feeling, there is no great art.” – Ray Bradbury
When I wrote the art book Sky’s the Limit, I spent hours interviewing the gifted artist, Nancy Cawdrey. I adore Nancy’s work and I’m inspired by her artistic process. She emphasized to me how much training she’d had. But the women of Gee’s Bend blow the idea that artists need extensive training out of the [ Read more … ]