Creative Process Seminar
Commit to your own creative process with this seminar and fill a sketchbook showcasing your art experience and evolution.
The Creative Process Seminar provides space for artistic growth, weekly support and feedback. The seminar lasts 8 weeks and guides artists through the Creative Process Framework. Each week artists will receive sketchbook prompts, art activities, and reflection questions. The group class meets for one hour each week. The 1:1 session meets 45 minutes each week. This course is offered online or in the studio.
The Creative Process Seminar is perfect for portfolio development, removing a creative block, homeschool art intensive, and exploring new ideas, materials, and techniques.
The seminar will be offered each season: Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall. Check the class schedule for available seminars. If you are interested in alternative start dates or class times, please click below to inquire. We look forward to creating with you!
Explore
In the EXPLORE phase, we present a collection of “explore” challenge exercises that open concept schema, extend material exploration, and activate prior experience and multiple intelligences.
Artists warm up their hands and their minds to great ready for a new experience.
This phase might be where some children stay, especially ages 3-5, repeating experiences, watching others, or combining discoveries.
“I have seen the process inform the work… meaning sparking curiosity, seeing “mistakes” turning into something I like. I recognize my limitations, try not to compare my art to others in judgement and keep making something.” – Lynette
Engage
In the ENGAGE phase, we provide skill workshops, tool and technique demonstrations, and provide visual references and exemplars.
Artists practice new skills and connect to content and concept by making many versions.
This phase might be where some children stay, especially ages 6-7, repeating experiences, watching others, or inventing their own way to use materials.
I committed to a prompt.
I learned about my prompt and chose some reference ideas I wanted to try.
I combined different elements to get something unique and mine.
By limiting myself to a prompt, I was able to consider creative ideas without limitations.
— Chrissy
Express
In the EXPRESS phase, we make different mediums and materials available to make multi-step projects, prototypes, sketches, and models to express ideas, apply skills, and express the concept in both 2D and 3D forms.
Artists create their personal expression of the concept and develop a “story” that expresses the meaning behind their creative choices.
Kids ages 8-9 will likely spend the longest in this phase working through the individual steps of a bigger project to get satisfaction from realistic, true to concept, or authentic results.
Does creativity have developmental stages, like life? I feel like I have to go through the concrete to reach something more abstract. — Student
The unconventional challenge guided me to work with the abstract concept not just the literal content. — Student