You’ve probably seen the quotation going around social media: “If you think artists are useless try to spend your quarantine without music, books, poems, movies and paintings.” It’s pithy and it rings true – how many of us are getting Read More…
Sharing Wonder
The Wonder Room is a one-of-a-kind gallery designed to foster imagination, experimentation, and storytelling in visitors of all ages. It encapsulates CMA’s values of creativity, experience, and relationships. Works of art are displayed in unexpected ways, and custom, hands-on activities are Read More…
Championing Creativity All the Time
Recently I had an experience that left my head swimming. It was the last session of the Teaching for Creativity Institute , and we were closing out the year with a day of teacher-led workshops. The participants in the Institute Read More…
Committing to Creativity
The new year is upon us, which means that many of us are striving to build new habits. As we all know, resolutions and indeed any kind of change in our behavior is hard. Building new habits requires that we Read More…
Reflections on the Creativity Summit
When I last wrote, I was tittering with excitement for the Creativity Summit, a once-in-a-lifetime convening of incredible thinkers and questioners both on the stage and in the audience. Since then I have read hundreds of response forms, tweets, sticky Read More…
Creative Communities: Creativity Summit
Think of a time when you felt creative. What did it feel like, sound like? What were you doing? What were others doing? Close your eyes and spend a minute reliving that experience of creativity. Now, imagine that you could Read More…