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Unleash Creativity Part 5: Enter Windows Instead of Doors [by Tess Callahan]
As he explains in his TEDx talk, “Embrace the Shake,” when artist Phil Hansen could no longer do his pointillist drawings due to nerve damage in his hand, he learned countless other ways to…
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Unleash Creativity Part 4: Limit your Palette [by Tess Callahan]
When artist Xu Bing was asked by the Chinese government to create two phoenix sculptures for the atrium of the new World Financial Center in Beijing, he accepted, but when he visited the site…
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Unleash Creativity Part 3: Impose Time Constraints [by Tess Callahan]
My teacher Roy Kinzer routinely warmed us up for our life painting class with a series of timed gesture drawings beginning with lightning fast poses. He required us to use large paper and to…
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A Hairy Situation [ by Charles Coe ]
Nowadays just turning on TV news or glancing at a newspaper headline is enough to make you want to hide in the broom closet or go work on a ferret ranch in Montenegro. The…
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Unleash Creativity Part 2: Emulate the Masters [by Tess Callahan]
For my students’ first poetry assignment this year, I distributed a dozen past issues of BEST AMERICAN POETRY along with other anthologies snatched from my shelf and asked them to browse through and settle…
