Online class library
Your Creative Ambition: How to Set and Reach Your Creative Goals
In this worksop, we'll learn about 4 common goal-setting pitfalls, and teach you how to set and reach your creative goals in 2024.
DEVELOPING A CREATIVE PROCESS
Developing a process that works for you is important for any artist. In this workshop, we'll discuss the 5-stages of my creative process and how to use this framework to move within various mediums. We’ll use this model to help you identify your specific creative process and how to move through your ruts.
HOw to Experiment
How do you like to experiment as an artist? In this workshop we’ll explore the “Play” stage of the creative process - the stage centered on testing, exploring, learning. We’ll discuss the way you naturally like to explore new ideas and how you can leverage that inclination to begin a project.
How to STAY INSPIRED
What actually inspires you? We’ll look at what you’re curious about, WHY, and create some research tools that motivate you to dig deeper into ideas that will nourish you.
How to Generate Ideas
This workshop will discuss how to generate new ideas in your creative practice through setting "enabling constraints." Enabling constraints are conditions that allow us to play with a sense of purpose and protection. The workshop will identify 3 ways to establish constraints using the 3Ms - the material, the multiple, and the mirror.
Talking and Writing about Your Work
Being able to clearly communicate your motivations to others is important. Writing and speaking about your work in an accessible way is essential for creating exhibition, funding, and partnership opportunities. In this workshop we'll give you foundational tools in this arena.
Finding and Creating Opportunities for your work
In this workshop, we talk about:
How to get your work into the world.
What's a good opportunity for YOU and your specific goals.
How to tackle your low-hanging fruit vs. over-engaging in lottery systems (i.e. expensive open calls!)
The Idea Funnel
In this class, we talk about the brainstorming stage of the creative process, and how to use the idea funnel to find clarity in your new ideas.
Making Money + Making Art
In this class, we talk about:
Common making money / making art problems
Your Art Blocks and your Money Blocks
Your MM/MA Venn Diagram.
UNPACKing your practice
with Stephanie de Couto Costa
In this workshop, guest artist Stephanie de Couto Costa will offer some introductory steps to help unpack aspects of your creative process—motivation, objectives, key concepts, and methods— and offer strategies to communicate your ideas more clearly.
Creative Endurance: How to stay inspired and connected during times of uncertainty
What do we as artists need to stay motivated? Particularly during times of uncertainty? In this workshop we’ll reflect on our relationship to creative endurance - what we need to stay inspired by and engaged with our work and who it serves. We’ll talk about the importance of 5 variables - Routine, Novelty, Encouragement, Permission, and Service - and how these things help us thrive.
How to manage overwhelm
In this workshop we talk about the generate stage of the creative process, specifically about experiencing overwhelm.