Daily Creativity Tips

Beginning in the new year I’ll be offering daily creativity tips to folks in my private gathering space on creativ.com. I’ll also be chatting with folks, answering questions, and being of general help <smile>. Please come join my gathering! Here is the place to...

Creativity in Business

What does “creativity in business” really mean? The word “creativity” tends to have three rather different meanings in a business context. Sometimes it stands for “innovation.” Sometimes it stands for “problem-solving,” Sometimes it stands for “manifesting human...

Safe Art or Engaged Art?

Many artists do not recognize the extent to which they are silenced, in their life and in their art, by the unconscious injunction not to make waves and by the corollary injunctions not to speak, not to have a point of view, not to have a voice, not to lead, not to...

5 Simple Tactics for Creating in Recovery

This first appeared on Recovery.org: 5 Simple Tactics for Creating in Recovery 5 SIMPLE TACTICS FOR CREATING IN RECOVERY Many ghosts, demons, and new challenges confront a creative person when he first enters recovery. On top of all the common challenges that any...

Handling Art Deadlines

Deadlines provoke anxiety! Learn from how working artists deal with the anxiety of deadlines. Jerry explained: The thing that works best for me is to have a written calendar that I can look at all at once with all the year’s deadlines written down.  If I need to...