We just got the news that our interview with Cassie Premo Steele was the number one interview listened to in the past two years on her BlogTalk Radio! If you want to hear what we had to say in that interview click on the link in the right margin. We talk about how our work began, projects we have done together, and plans for future collaborations.
I just received this postcard in the mail from Laura. This is exactly how our work began together…a simple note sent to one another. Thanks Laura!
Laura arrived last night after a canceled flight and a car ride from Charlotte. After a bottle of wine and, as always, a looong conversation we are on our way to another fun-filled productive studio visit.
We were just interviewed on BlogTalk Radio by Cassie Premo Steele. Have a listen….
We just sent our newsletter, so if you did not receive it please sign up right over there -> in the margin. I wanted to extend some ideas in this post today from the newsletter.
A common question after we tell people that we can talk on the phone for four hours is “what do you talk about?”. After a recent lengthy conversation on the phone about creativity, I thought I would share some thoughts and resources if you are interested in this topic as well. Laura and I often wonder why we have the drive to create art, why we can’t ignore it (having engaged in various occupations only to return to the arts time and time again), and the mysterious “flow” in the studio we crave. Mihály Csíkszentmihályi discusses in detail this mental state “in which a person in an activity is fully immersed in a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and success in the process of the activity.” (as quoted from wikipedia on FLOW). Certainly flow can happen in any occupation or activity.
Newsweek Magazine recently printed this article titled “The Crisis of Creativity”. (referenced in our newsletter), that sparked our conversation on creativity. What is creativity? Can you be creative without being an artist? What is creativity in an interdisciplinary art practice? What do we know about how our left and right brain work together and how that affects creativity? We wanted to extend this conversation to you as well. Listen to the podcast here to get you goin’
Having just graduated from an Interdisciplinary Arts graduate program at Goddard College, this is a BIG topic for Laura and I. This is only the beginning of flushing out all our ideas on this one. At the very core of this topic is the question “can we teach creativity or are you born with it?“. The Newsweek article speaks to what science knows on this topic with the development of your brain.
This is seriously fascinating to Laura and I.
Daniel Pink addresses this very topic in his book A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future. We have talked about him many times here on the blog, but had to mention him again. Creativity is where our future is headed. We have gathered so much information over the last centuries, now what will we do with it? Much of what we will talk about here at the blog is how the arts are responding to this.
Yes….this is why we talk for hours. Conversation is our way of sorting out the numerous questions. We have already had a number of thoughtful conversations with other people in our lives on and off the blog related to what we post, so keep it comin’ folks!
Let us know what you think about this “crisis of creativity”
