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WANT TO CREATE POSITIVE CHANGE? THINK ART-MAKING. The following courses are designed as 6-hour courses and can be offered as full-day intensive or multi-day sessions. Custom courses can also be developed around specific topics or to integrate into longer classes and retreats.
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Students in Cambridge Center for Adult Education "Beginning Oil Painting" class March 2005 |
DRAWING
AND/OR PAINTING FOR EVERYONE
Keep beauty and activity in your life with a group art class. Bring your
drawing paper and/or paints to these low-key group art sessions. We begin
with a 5-10 minute warm-up exercise that draws from yoga, tai chi, meditation
or other mind/body discipline. Then one or two simple exercises will be
suggested. For most of class, we will work on our own with individual
attention when needed. This class is for adolescent to adult.
DRAW
OR PAINT YOUR DREAM GARDEN
For adults who want to tap into the wealth of images provided by our dreams,
memories and experiences. We will work with guided imagery and relaxation
techniques to draw or paint image from nature. Beginning with simple techniques,
we may be surprised by the complexity that emerges. No experience necessary.
This class is for teen to adult.
REALLY
DRAWING AND PAINTING FROM AND WITH NATURE
This is an experiential workshop designed for people who feel inspired
by the great outdoors. In this freeform workshop, we will use objects
and materials from nature to expand our art-making techniques. We will
begin by bringing and collecting items from nature. We will then experiment
and learn from our selves and each other, using the objects as brushes,
stamps, collage and textural material. We will deepen our appreciation
for nature. This class is for adolescent to adult.
STILL
LIFE WITH AN ELVIS DOLL
Create a still life painting that captures your own sweet, outgoing, eclectic
or wacky personality. We will learn about the tradition of still life
painting, choose objects that have personal meaning, and respond to the
objects in paint. Some previous painting experience is helpful. This
class is for adolescent to adult.
REBOOT
YOUR CREATIVE HARD DRIVE
This course is for those who know they can, those who think they can't,
and those who used to express themselves creatively. Reawaken your child-like
creative genius and curb your inner critic. Explore techniques that open
our minds and bodies to be open to opportunity. Leave the workshop with
a renewed relationship to your creative core and a practical store of
techniques that keep the creative channels open. A variety of materials
will be used, such as harmonicas, twigs, shoelaces, magazines, berries...
the sky's the limit! This class can be geared toward adults, adolescents
or teens, especially people undergoing any kind of transition.
CREATIVITY
IN THE WORKPLACE
LUNCH AND LEARN: this workshop can be offered as a 1-hour introduction
to creativity!
Offered as "Creativity & New Product Design" at MIT Sloan
School of Management with MIT Professor Dan Ariely. Creativity is an integral
part of most daily activities demanded of students, employees, and managers.
Routinely, we have to come up with new creative approaches and solutions
and get our teams and people around us to do the same. During this day
we will try to improve our ability to be creative. We will start the day
with a set of creativity exercises led by Sheri Kennedy, an artist and
creativity facilitator. This part of the session will be experiential
in nature and it will involve writing, drawing, and some improv. After
lunch we will start with a set of riddles, leading to a discussion concerning
systematic approaches for creativity (do they exist?). In particular,
we will discuss "low-brow" approached to creativity such as
"function follows form," and systematic searches into products'
attribute space. Available for teams, companies and small businesses
on request.
