creativity

5 Questions for Makers

by rosedeniz July 3, 2011 art

Being creative means being savvy, trusting the hands that draw you to create in the first place. You’ll dig deep when you need to. Make something out of nothing, though you never for one second believed it didn’t exist. It already existed in your mind before you ever made it.

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Prozac Neighbor

by rosedeniz June 16, 2011 creativity

A casual conversation at the park with a neighbor became enlightening when the subject turned to anti-depressants.

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The Bird Sisters: a conversation with Rebecca Rasmussen on writing, running, mothering, and Wisconsin

by rosedeniz June 1, 2011 Art is Dialogue

An Art is Dialogue conversation with author Rebecca Rasmussen on writing, mothering, running, and her fascination with place.

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The Healthy Artist & Writer’s Contract

by rosedeniz May 12, 2011 art

A highly personal, totally individual, agreement for guilt-and-stress-free creativity.

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Creative Peek: an interview with Charlie of Happy Threads

by rosedeniz April 14, 2011 creativity

A Melbourne-based cross stitcher turns her ideas into a blog and shop, sharing her patterns, love of food, and all things crafty.

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Is creativity healing?

by rosedeniz March 14, 2011 art

It’s volatile out there. Eruptions, creative blocks, pain stories. Impasses and detours. Bloggers only as good as their last post. Artists only remembered by their latest body of work. Writers after a successful debut who get a bad case of second-book syndrome. Can creativity heal in the face of disaster?

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With love, and heaven

by rosedeniz March 4, 2011 creativity

Poets and writers and artists all love to cross-pollinate. Jorie Graham paints to fuel her poetry.The poet Mark McGuinness is best known as a creativity coach and voice behind Lateral Action. This poem, Cennet/Heaven is in honor of my grandmother and Midwestern foodstuffs.

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String theory, songlines, and creative cocktails

by rosedeniz February 27, 2011 creativity

Tweet Fascinated by string theory as a painting student at Cranbrook, I read The Elegant Universe at the suggestion of my studio mate, Allie Rex. Allie’s work today still seems guided by a merger of science and the natural world. Under the chaotic surface of her drawings on mylar, there is a sense of order in her […]

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