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Identifying Your Creative Blocks
Identify your creative roadblocks and learn what’s holding you back from making the things you want to make. We’ll identify 5 common roadblocks and how you can overcome them. Through this process you’ll take helpful steps in redefining your creative path and identifying your values.
Creative Goal Setting
In this workshop we talk about how to set gentle, habits-based goals for the season ahead of you.
What we'll cover:
- Common goal-setting pitfalls.
- Process-oriented vs. outcomes-oriented goals.
- Setting priorities based on the season vs. the year.
- 6 questions that can help you find focus.
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.
HOW TO STAY INSPIRED
What actually inspires you? Maybe it’s not something in the arts, but science fiction, philosophy, gardening or horror? 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.
Managing Overwhelm on your projects
In this workshop we talk about the generate stage of the creative process, specifically about experiencing overwhelm.
We'll talk about:
- What exactly is overwhelm?
- Common misbeliefs about generate.
- Creating constraints + simplifying your project.
Developing a CREATIVE Process
Developing a process that works is important for any artist. In this workshop, I’ll share the 5-stages of my creative process and how I use this framework to move within various mediums. We’ll use this model to help you identify your creative process and where you might be getting stuck.
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.
Creative ENDURANCE: HOw to stay INspired + 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.
Talking and Writing About Your Work
Being able to clearly communicate your motivations to others is essential for creating exhibition, funding, and partnership opportunities. In this workshop we'll give you foundational tools in this arena. You will:
Learn a framework for writing a clear and accessible artist statement
Learn do's and dont's of writing about your art
Learn how to conduct a studio visit
The Idea Funnel
In this workshop, 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 and Making Art
In this workshop, we talk about:
Common making money / making art problems
Your Art Blocks and your Money Blocks
Your MM/MA Venn Diagram.
Finding and Creating Opportunities for Your Work.
We'll 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!)
And MANY More!
What students have to say about workshops:
“ Christine is such a wizard at synthesizing her many years of lived, embodied, creative wisdom into succinct, practical, and digestible advice… truly brain fuel for anyone at any point on their creative journey looking to get unstuck and become the artist they know they truly are.”
- Rebecca R.
"I strongly recommend Christine´s program. She provided a very resourceful and caring guidance to unblock a creative process, I had practically abandoned for nearly 10 years. I am deeply grateful to her and her open path to wonder. “
- Claudia P.
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