by admin-eric | Mar 12, 2021 | Fine Arts America
For thousands and thousands of years the thing we call “creativity” has been in evidence. We take that word to stand for everything from cave paintings to dreaming up bread to dreaming up round wheels to creating cosmology myths to turning reeds into flutes. That is...
by admin-eric | Mar 5, 2021 | Fine Arts America
If you want to be a productive, prolific creative person, you need to get organized and stay organized. Your organizational scheme may not look like anybody else’s: to the outside world, your studio may look completely disorganized. But if you know where things are,...
by admin-eric | Feb 26, 2021 | Fine Arts America
You Aren’t Creative Until You Pick a Project I’ve been working with creative and performing artists and other creatives for more than thirty years, first as a therapist and then as a creativity coach. Among their many challenges is the following one, a challenge that...
by admin-eric | Feb 19, 2021 | Fine Arts America
At the core of a creative act like painting or sculpting is the effort to make meaning (and not beautiful objects or money). We are very happy if we make objects we like and if we make money, but what we are really after as we create is the experience of making our...
by admin-eric | Feb 12, 2021 | Fine Arts America
Dear Dr. Maisel: I’m wondering how important confidence really is to an artist—and if it is really important, what can you do if you’ve lost some of it—or a lot of it! Rachel L., Portland ** Thanks, Rachel. Yes, creativity requires confidence—and life can rob you of...
by admin-eric | Feb 5, 2021 | Fine Arts America
Dear Dr. Maisel: I’ve been painting for a long time but I have the feeling that I still haven’t found my own voice as an artist. Do you have any suggestions for how an artist can go about discovering what she really wants to say? Leslie T., Flagstaff ** Thank you,...
