10-12-07

CREATIVE FITNESS - ORDINARY CREATIVITY - PERSONAL CREATIVITY

These are the interchangeable terms I am using for a series of workshops that stem from the book I'm writing, The Wayward Artist. Each workshop is focussed on a different "portal" into the area of creative fitness, ordinary creativity, personal creativity--- that middle world between the conscious work of daily living and the self-conscious work of making art.

Ordinary Creativity is something we all already practice to some degree.  We have to. We were born "makers" We make a life for ourselves, we make families, friends; we make deals, dinner, mistakes and trouble. Humans Make... and in the tradition of Animism: Things get made through humans. Everything Matters.  Again, Mattering is what humans help the rest of reality do.  There is a language of Mattering.  Things can speak for us. you can learn to listen betterand be a better Maker

Blah, blah, blah.     

If this twisted form of Jungian Archetypal Psychology and Practical Animism is really true, then I should not need words, words and more words to make it so.  This is why I am doing a series of short, 2-hr, introductory workshops...     I find that 2 hours is just enough time to start people off on this crooked path.

Courses, Workshops and Seminars, 2007-08 

• Imaginal Trading Cards:   a form of a growing popular art form called Artist's Trading Cards, or sometimes, Tag Art.  It's small --- 2 1/2" x 3 1/2" cards, often old playing cards.  I use the word "imaginal" to help keep it aimed at certain themes I have found more powerful than others.--usually at the shadow side of living, the unspoken, the whispered.  We try to catch that spark into these little cards.  But on a simple level, you make ---and trade--- just small collages.

                 Saturday, November 3, 4-6 pm at at Dan's Warwick Studio   $35, 9 people max

                    Saturday, October 26,  10-noon at at Dan's Warwick Studio  $35, 9 people max

                Saturday, August 18, 2-3pm at at Dan's Warwick Studio  at Woodlanders Gathering   

• Tool Making: practical and hyperpractical.  Here we explore the making process of spoons, forks, knives and well as other tools for directing energy, often called "wands".    In Tool Making, we repair old hand tools and make new ones. 

                    Saturday, November 3, 1-3pm at at Dan's Warwick Studio 

                    Saturday, October 26, 1-3pm at at Dan's Warwick Studio 

• Introduction to the Wayward Artist in us all 
  • August 17, 9-11 at Woodlanders Gathering
  • July 9, 7-8:30 at Dan's Studio as part of the Warwick Arts Festival . Cost $30

Introduction to Alchemy:    "as above, so below"            Revisiting alchemical principles and processes as they are relevant to the work, the research, the healing of the Wayward Artist today.  (and, boy, are they!)                    Sunday, August 19, 9:30-10:30 at Woodlanders Gathering