1. title CREATIVITY FOR CREATIVE MINDS An Interdisciplinary Look at Creativity Dr. Lori Kent

2. INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION Paul Chan “My birds…trash…the future” (2006) detail

4. Who are we as creative people… how do we function ?

5. GOALS GOALS

10. SOME DEFINITIONS SOME DEFINITIONS

11. What is creativity ?

12. cre • a • tiv • i • ty From the Latin creatus meaning “to make or produce” or literally “to grow”

13. cre • a • tiv • i • ty The term did not come into popular parlance until…

14. The 1950s when it was popularized by psychologists

15. cre • a • tiv • i • ty “ [human’s] capacity to produce new ideas, insights, inventions or artistic objects, which are accepted of being of social, spiritual, aesthetic, scientific, or technological value.” - Dictionary of Developmental and Educational Psychology (1986)

17. What are some common misconceptions ?

21. General Views of Creativity

32. Who is the creative genius? Picasso? or Braque?

33. Was Picasso an innovator…?

34. … even though Cezanne broke the illusion of the Renaissance window many years before the invention of Cubism?

35. Continuities Discontinuities Weisberg’s Creativity: Beyond the Myth of Genius

37. W.A. Mozart C.P.E. Bach

38. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3i-SzzhUtws

39. The Seven Year Rule Weisberg’s Creativity: Beyond the Myth of Genius

40. Michelangelo Buonarroti (aged 12-13)

41. CREATIVITY THRU THE AGES CREATIVITY THROUGH THE AGES

42. Not much is known about prehistoric conceptions of creativity… Some things must have been perceived as creative such as the creation myths that were passed from one generation to another.

43. Some argue that the invention of time caused an awareness in mortality that made art particularly important. Art and creative acts were a means of being immortal. Ancient art forms were linked to spiritual practices. In addition, creative objects added beauty to otherwise harsh lives and improved things in other ways…

45. Throughout early Western history… certain motifs, stylizations and themes must have been perceived as beautiful or valuable because they were perpetuated.

46. It can be argued that some artists exhibited breakthrough thinking…

48. Today , we look at models of creative behavior from many years ago despite the fact that we live in very different worlds .

49. CREATIVITY THRU THE AGES CREATIVITY IN A CONTEMPORARY CONTEXT

50. Today, we live in a (post) postmodern age.

51. Today, we live in a (post) postmodern age Contemporary art reflects the cultural context(s) of postmodernism

52. postmodernism is pluralistic eclectic reflexive de-constructed and de-centered

53. which makes cultural production much more complicated

54. Contemporary Creation

55. Vik Muniz

56. Vik Muniz

58. Tom Friedman

59. Tom Friedman

60. Tom Friedman

61. Tom Friedman

62. Tara Donovan

63. Tara Donovan

64. Tara Donovan

65. Tara Donovan

66. Tara Donovan

67. Michael Lucero

69. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ul8kgtiD4yg

70. Hans Belmer

71. Henry Darger

72. Douglas Gordon http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1jkoMfPa40

73. Weegee

74. Michelangelo Pistoletto

75. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VF9- sEbqDvU

76. ATTRITBUTES OF CREATIVIVE THINKERS BELIEFS ABOUT CREATIVITY

82. motherboard

84. Statue of justice

86. Long road

96. ATTRITBUTES OF CREATIVIVE THINKERS ATTRIBUTES OF CREATIVE THINKERS

105. BEING MORE CREATIVE BECOMING MORE CREATIVE

106. COMMON CREATIVE BLOCKS Be aware of

107. Emotional Blocks: Fear, Sadness, etc.

108. Political Oppression and Legal Restrictions

109. Discrimination and Racism

110. Religious and Cultural Blocks

114. 1 Draw or describe your ideal working conditions for creativity.

116. 2 Is there a musical artist, genre or song that inspires you to create?

118. 3 What do you know the most about?

122. 4 When was the last time your thought “wow! that’s new! ? Describe.

124. 5 Write down a joke.

127. 6 How long was the most time that you have consecutively spent alone?

129. 7 With a partner, make a list of ALL of the possible uses for the object you have been given.