Creativity
The artist is not a special kind of person, but every person is a special kind of artist.
Each human is born creative. Creativity is an individual's basic instant to express oneself. Creativity is the deepest form of human expression.
To create is to discover yourself - to be yourself.
To create is to form new relationships between previously unrelated things. The process involves inventing, exploring, discovering and communicating.
Our principal message is that ideas, like their originators, come in all shapes and sizes. Creativity is not the exclusive property of a gifted few. Factory workers, clerks, janitors and gardeners can be creative as well as executives, scientists, artists and technicians.
One trait possessed in common by creative people is the willingness to try. Other common traits are the capacities to be puzzled and to wonder.
Creativity is to be regarded as both product and process. Without the process there would be no product. Without the product or achievement, there might be nothing more than fantasy.
With regard to the creativity of children...children's art cannot be taught in the usual sense. It is already there! It can only be liberated and nurtured. Adults can best be instrumental in encouraging the creative development of children by being open to what students express and create, by providing an atmosphere of emotional safety where children feel free to express their personal vision, and by acknowledging and respecting creative behavior.
Each human is born creative. Creativity is an individual's basic instant to express oneself. Creativity is the deepest form of human expression.
To create is to discover yourself - to be yourself.
To create is to form new relationships between previously unrelated things. The process involves inventing, exploring, discovering and communicating.
Our principal message is that ideas, like their originators, come in all shapes and sizes. Creativity is not the exclusive property of a gifted few. Factory workers, clerks, janitors and gardeners can be creative as well as executives, scientists, artists and technicians.
One trait possessed in common by creative people is the willingness to try. Other common traits are the capacities to be puzzled and to wonder.
Creativity is to be regarded as both product and process. Without the process there would be no product. Without the product or achievement, there might be nothing more than fantasy.
With regard to the creativity of children...children's art cannot be taught in the usual sense. It is already there! It can only be liberated and nurtured. Adults can best be instrumental in encouraging the creative development of children by being open to what students express and create, by providing an atmosphere of emotional safety where children feel free to express their personal vision, and by acknowledging and respecting creative behavior.
