by admin-eric | Jul 24, 2019 | Fine Arts America
Rituals provide a simple way to shift energies as you move between creating or performing and daily life or from one type of task to another. Ritual is not a word we use often in the 21st century. We’re too busy juggling our different commitments, multi-tasking,...
by admin-eric | Jul 19, 2019 | Fine Arts America
Our creative process is an ever-evolving, living being. It requires just as much attention, care and love as we do. Most of us create because we have an unquenchable inner desire. When that desire is muted it can cause stress, anxiety, low mood, fractiousness and...
by admin-eric | Jul 12, 2019 | Fine Arts America
The following is another exercise in the Creativity Exercises That Work! series. This one is offered by Litza Bixler: THRESHOLDS is an exercise meant to help creative people acknowledge, embrace and utilize liminality. WHAT is liminality? The concept of liminality was...
by admin-eric | Jul 5, 2019 | Fine Arts America
Forge Ahead Create Every Day (F.A.C.E) By Natalie Dadamio Forge Ahead Create Every Day, or F.A.C.E. for short, is a method that helps you turn towards the self instead of running, hiding, or suppressing emotions. F.A.C.E. focuses on checking in with ourselves and...
by admin-eric | Jun 28, 2019 | Fine Arts America
Vanquish Your No’s, Overcome Procrastination, Own Your Process By Jude Walsh Many creatives struggle with procrastination, sometimes to the point where we never actually start our work, much less finish it. When we procrastinate, what we are really doing is telling...
by admin-eric | Jun 21, 2019 | Fine Arts America
Mind-Movie Muse By Stephanie Bianchi I call this exercise Mind-Movie Muse. It is adapted from a method I use in my Music Therapy practice called The Bonny Method of GIM (Guided Imagery with Music). If you’re feeling blocked, uninspired, or just need to bust out of the...