- merging the art process with the business process Copyright 2005, please contact for permission to copy/use in any form. Gallery 202, Partners in Art, Inc.
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Your job right now is to
-While enjoying your lunch, casually ask your neighbor what they do to encourage their creativity.
-Find five words that describe their creativity in adjective form.
-I knit funky scarves, I sweat profusely, I cultivate giant weeds - funky, profusely, giant
-Choose one and write it down on the piece of vellum paper.
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Gallery 202, Partners in Art, Inc.
-1994 - or since 8
-Once a gallery now community focused
-Patrons, businesses and artists driven
-All ages
-Non-profit - entry fees and donations
-Goals
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HEY YOU-pay attention!
-Do you have access to a computer to get on the internet.
-If yes, then go to www.artsline.info to get this syllabus.
- If no, well I guess I can copy this off for you, hmmmmm.
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Women are Perfect
-We can do it all
-But maybe not
-Work vs. play vs. self care!
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-What is the definition of work/self care
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-Play
-Do you really know how to play creatively!?
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-Live life this way!(from an email blast)
-Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body (or mind or business plan)
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-But rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, red wine in the other, body (and mind and business play thoroughly used up, totally worn out and
-Screaming WOO HOO what a ride!
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What does it mean to be creative
-Talent
-Technical
-Inherited
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How to be an artist/Sark-*
Stay loose~learn to watch snails~plant impossible gardens~invite someone dangerous to tea~make little signs that say "Yes!" and post them all over your house~make friends with freedom and uncertainty~look forward to dreams~cry during movies~swing as high as you can on a swingset, by moonlight~cultivate moods~refuse to "be responsible"~do it for love~take lots of naps~give money away~do it now~the money will follow~believe in magic~laugh a lot~celebrate every gorgeous moment~take moonbaths~have wild imaginings, transformative dreams and perfect calm~draw on the walls~read every day~imagine yourself magic~giggle with children~listen to old people~open up~dive in~be free~bless yourself~drive away fear~play with everything~entertain your inner child~you are innocent~build a fort with blankets~get wet~hug trees~write love letters.
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Imagination-*
-Imagination is an essential function in all human consciousness. Our ability to use language, to think through forms, patterns, shapes, metaphors, etc. and our unique kind of consciousness that allows us to transcend time and place, all grow from our imagination. So liberating, rescuing, nurturing and education the imagination is essential if we are to do more than repeat yesterday's patterns.
- That is the function of the arts process.
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Expression -*
- Human expression through the arts is an innate part of what makes us human. Primitive cultures find it important to make something special, whether by music, dance, poetry, color etc.
- Images, patterns, music, emotional intonation and emotion in general are as much a part of human experience and knowledge as language.
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Business vs Artist
-Businesses are more often linear, logical, quantitative.
-Leaders are often paid to find solutions, get results. Often quickly without seeing all the sides
-The arts help to see the problems/opportunities differently
-Tools what doesn't belong! Table activities
-Brainstorming Exercise
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Business Brainstorming
- Identify the problem
-Generate alternative solutions
- Evaluate these
- Decision making
-Implement
- Follow up
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Artist approach
-Learn the rules
- Learn why the rules
- Use the rules
-...........if it makes sense
-Break the rules
- ...........if it doesn't
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Artist brainstorming
- Avoid clenching on to an idea, concept a schedule
- Let them move in your mind,your hand
- Enjoy them as they morph into more
- Store them in an easy place.
- Do it alone first
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blank
- Start with a blank wall, canvas, stone from the same point.
- Everything must be taken into account to create.
- Choose how to fill the void.
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- Become a curiosity junkie learned to be amazed.
- Lighten up and play with your tools
- There are endless forks in the road
- The first step is..........
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Begin
- At some point you simply have to take the plunge!
- Creativity is a process not an end product!
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Creative process
- The creative process is often uncertain, messy, scary, frustrating yet often pleasantly disruptive.
- The creative process is one of guiding, embracing ambiguity, risking taking and team building.
- The creative process is lifelong explore and express discoveries
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Creativity in business
- Arts processes are used as vehicle
- But not just for effect pictures on walls, special events, oneshot work shops
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ARts allow you to
- Think differently creative reframing see the gap between aspiration and reality
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Arts allow you to
- Discontinuous stepby expanding viewpoints while developing a new way of seeing
- It takes time to build trust from the unfamiliar.
- Must see as a regular part of the program
- It must come from within
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- Learn from risk taking takes courage
- Experience failure or show a new side actually break the rules
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ARts process enourage you to
- Question values enhance emotional/intuitive responses
- Artists put their soul into their art and their emotions on the line.
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Using art process for businesses
- Apply different viewpoints - hero
- Become the object- apply human tendencies to an inanimate object
- Select topics by different authors
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Apply a different vehicle
- Dance to your report
- Write only in code
- Sing out your demands/goals
- Draw your needs
- Create an art space
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Enjoy a different environment
- Rehearsals with you laptop.
- Enjoy a toy
- Don't use paper to write on (lists)
- Use a crossword puzzle with your own answers.
- Look beyond the picture
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Apply a different question
- What is "# 25?"
-Revisit the question re: the tools?
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Apply a different language
- Artspeak, kidspeak, sign language
- Describe with out using the obvious
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Apply it to a team
- Creativity is not a process that is successful alone.
- Sharing may be stressful but teaches how to work with others
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Take a break/force quit
- Go to the worse task you have to do
- Set the timer for 15 minutes
-LEAVE WHEN THE BELL RINGS NO MATTER WHERE YOU ARE AT. STOP and go to the good stuff.
- Repeat for several days.
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detour
- Oh the guilt
page 228 in Create Sparks
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- Down time does not mean that you are being uncreative. Vegging is revitalizing yourself.
- Constant activity does not equate to creativity.
- It's ok to sit and stare in your little cubicle.
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Creative ways!
- People need a spur to help them see things new fear, loss, money, time
- Relearn how to absorb, discover and solve problems in childıs way
- Realize control isnıt always possible
- Be wary of the linear outlook
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- Recognize that you can't have a firm structure - especially at the start
- Adapt as you go along not three steps ahead
- Others perspective solutions from other sources
- Practicing is important
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- Einstein played the violin or piano when frustrated with physics
- When you are frustrated what do you do what creative form do you do!
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Homework try one
- The Corner Stop at a regular "stopping place" take a good look around and what new to you find
- Hit and Run "See, Compliment, Don't look back"
- Secret Art Activity "Show it to someone"
- 15 minute timer - Force Quit
- www.artsline.info and give me your results
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Permission
- Permission to create
- Permission to make a mistake
- Permission to your own space
- Permission to break the rules
- Permission to laugh at yourself
- Permission to show others
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Thank you
- Tools
- What is #25
- Presentation
* Resources: (Re) Educating for Leadership: How the Arts Can Improve Business, by Ted Uswick, Alastair Creamer and Mary Pinard. Online Article
Jim Krause, Creative Sparks, How Design Books, Cincinnati, Ohio 2003
How to be an Artist, Poster by Sark
Conversations with friends, business associations/associates and living life.
