The document discusses creativity from several perspectives: 1. It provides definitions of creativity from various sources, describing it as the human capacity to produce new ideas or inventions that have social or cultural value. 2. It outlines some common misconceptions about creativity, such as the ideas that only geniuses can be creative or that creativity comes from a mysterious place. 3. It discusses attributes of creative thinkers, noting they often tolerate ambiguity, are nonconformists, intrinsically motivated, and prefer complexity.

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

3. Assumption META COGNITION Thinking about thinking By being aware of processes of one’s own best thinking one can further perfect thinking…

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

5. GOALS GOALS

6. Goal: To introduce a brief history of idea-making

7. Goal: To overview the creative contexts of 21c visual arts

8. Goal: To look at attributes of creativity

9. Goal: To offer methods for maximizing creativity…

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 ?

18. General Views of Creativity Life would be really bad without it Genius and talent are essential to being a creative person It’s the main thing that differentiates art from other practices, such as business It comes from a mysterious place deep inside of a person

19. General Views of Creativity Life would be really bad without it Genius and talent are essential to being a creative person It’s the main thing that differentiates art from other practices, such as business It comes from a mysterious place deep inside of a person

20. General Views of Creativity Life would be really bad without it Genius and talent are essential to being a creative person It’s the main thing that differentiates art from other practices, such as business It comes from a mysterious place deep inside of a person

21. General Views of Creativity

22. General Views of Creativity Life would be really bad without it Genius and talent are essential to being a creative person It’s the main thing that differentiates art from other practices, such as business It comes from a mysterious place deep inside of a person

23. General Views of Creativity Life would be really bad without it Genius and talent are essential to being a creative person It’s the main thing that differentiates art from other practices, such as business It comes from a mysterious place deep inside of a person

24. General Views of Creativity Life would be really bad without it Genius and talent are essential to being a creative person It’s the main thing that differentiates art from other practices, such as business It comes from a mysterious place deep inside of a person

26. Teaching Creativity to the Creative ? ? ? ? Artists perpetuate myths about creativity (for example, art students who think depression = talent, also known as the “Van Gogh’s Ear Syndrome”)

28. Teaching Creativity to the Creative ? ? ? ? Over a lifetime, adults build defenses that inhibit creative thinking.

30. Teaching Creativity to the Creative ? ? ? ? Artists are not necessary creative *

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…

44. Imagine the initial discovery that clay hardened in fire… then think about the course of functional and aesthetic improvements that followed. Lucie-Smith, The Story of Craft

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…

47. But they were influenced by a rigid cultural context. Artistic creation was restricted in its content, technologies, forms, and values until the age of modernism.

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

77. EXPERTS AGREE Creativity should be viewed not in terms of individual genius thinking, but as a “dynamic… evolving system that is developmental, pluralistic, and interactive.” (John-Steiner, Gruber, Feldman) In other words…creativity does not stay still

78. EXPERTS AGREE Thinking strategies that are important to being creative are…

79. THINKING… 1. “Breaking set” or breaking out of old patterns.

81. THINKING… 2.Understanding complexities.

82. motherboard

83. THINKING… 3.Suspending judgment. (particularly in brainstorming)

84. Statue of justice

85. THINKING… 4.Keeping options open as long as possible.

86. Long road

87. THINKING… 5.Thinking broadly and seeing relationships.

89. THINKING… 6. Remembering accurately.

91. THINKING… 7. Perceiving freshly.

94. THINKING… 8.Using “tricks”. (making the familiar strange and the strange familiar, playing with ideas, investigating paradoxes, etc)

96. ATTRITBUTES OF CREATIVIVE THINKERS ATTRIBUTES OF CREATIVE THINKERS

97. THE CREATIVE are • tolerate of ambiguity • naive • nonconformists • intuitive • ambitious, driven • intrinsically motivated • competent in their domain • prefer complexity

98. THE CREATIVE are • tolerate of ambiguity • naïve, yet knowledgeable • nonconformists • intuitive • ambitious, driven • intrinsically motivated • competent in their domain • prefer complexity

99. THE CREATIVE are • tolerate of ambiguity • naïve, yet knowledgeable • nonconformists • intuitive • ambitious, driven • intrinsically motivated • competent in their domain • prefer complexity

100. THE CREATIVE are • tolerate of ambiguity • naïve, yet knowledgeable • nonconformists • intuitive • ambitious, driven • intrinsically motivated • competent in their domain • prefer complexity

101. THE CREATIVE are • tolerate of ambiguity • naïve, yet knowledgeable • nonconformists • intuitive • ambitious, driven • intrinsically motivated • competent in their domain • prefer complexity

102. THE CREATIVE are • tolerate of ambiguity • naïve, yet knowledgeable • nonconformists • intuitive • ambitious, driven • intrinsically motivated • competent in their domain • prefer complexity

103. THE CREATIVE are • tolerate of ambiguity • naïve, yet knowledgeable • nonconformists • intuitive • ambitious, driven • intrinsically motivated • competent in their domain • prefer complexity

104. THE CREATIVE • tolerate of ambiguity • naïve, yet knowledgeable • nonconformists • intuitive • ambitious, driven • intrinsically motivated • competent in their domain • prefer complexity

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

111. TIPS To enhance creativity .

112. TIPS Create your own rituals.

113. TIPS Create your own ideal conditions.

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

115. TIPS Use background music.

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

117. TIPS Know your domain or field.

118. 3 What do you know the most about?

119. TIPS Maintain a high level of passion.

120. TIPS Form a support group. Converse.

121. TIPS Seek out the new. “ Travel is the midwife of thought.” - Alain de Botton

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

123. TIPS Laugh. How many art students does it take to screw in a light bulb? -only one…and she gets three credits for it!

124. 5 Write down a joke.

126. TIPS Cultivate solitude.

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

128. TIPS Intersect disciplines and ideas. Functional Fixedness

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

130. TIPS See old things in new ways.

131. ART AND FEAR Part of artmaking is… Learning how not to quit. Section on art and fear

132. ART AND FEAR Part of artmaking is… Finding a support group. Section on art and fear

133. ART AND FEAR Part of artmaking is… Drawing on imagination and vision. Section on art and fear

134. ART AND FEAR Part of artmaking is… Getting in touch with materials. Section on art and fear

135. ART AND FEAR Part of artmaking is… Living with uncertainty. Section on art and fear

136. ART AND FEAR Some Wisdom The function of the overwhelming majority of your artwork is to simply teach you about the small fraction of your work that soars. Section on art and fear

137. ART AND FEAR Some Wisdom You learn how to make your artwork by making your artwork. Section on art and fear

138. THE END Create. Solve Problems. Add some beauty to the world. Find Problems. Be curious about everything. Cultivate joy….