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No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you're keeping the man-child alive. -- John Cassavetes
I have found that it is important to be creative in some aspect of your life. Your creativity is the key to learning more about yourself. I have learned that I like to create big, colorful works that often include text. I have also found that after I do something creative, I am more likely to remember my dreams the next morning.
I have taken numerous art classes over the past couple of years. My first art class was Accessing Your Creativity with Sue Anderson at the Carrboro ArtsCenter. I took two classes while I was still a senior at UNC. I took Intro to 3-D Design with Barbie Solinski and Life Sculpting with elin o'hara slavick. The last class that I have taken was another one at the Carrboro Artscenter. It was Painting From the Source with Fredrica Bishop. The classes at the ArtsCenter focused on the process of creating art rather than the final product. I think that by taking a class with this emphasis really helped me to be successful in the two classes through the University.
I am also taking a series of short courses through the Lucy Daniels Foundation regarding psychoanalysis and creativity. Following is a list of books on creativity that we were given as a reference.
- Arieti, Silvano, Creativity - The Magic Synthesis, Basic Books, Inc., New York, 1976.
- Deri, Susan K., Symbolization and Creativity, International Universities Press, Inc., New York, 1984.
- Gedo, John E., Portraits of the Artist, The Guilford Press, New York, 1983.
- Grolnick, Simon A., Borkin, Leonard, and Muensterberger, Werner, (Eds.), Between Reality and Fantasy, Jason Aaronson, New York, 1978.
- Kavaler-Adler, Susan, The Compulsion to Create, Routledge, New York and London, 1993.
- Kubie, Lawrence S., Neurotic Distortion of the Creative Process, University of Kansas Press, 1958.
- May, Rollo, The Courage to Create, W. W. Norton & Co., Inc. New York, 1975.
- Milner, Marion (OR Joanna Field), On Not Being Able to Paint, Jeremy P. Tarcher, Inc., Los Angeles, Distributed by St. Martin's Press, New York, 1957.
- Oremland, Jerome, The Origins and Psychodynamics of Creativity, A Psychoanalytic Perspective, International Universities Press, New York, 1996.
- Rose, Gilbert J., Necessary Illusion: Art as "Witness": Resonance and Attunement to Forms and Feelings, International Universities Press, New York, 1996.
- Rose, Gilbert J., The Power of Form - A Psychoanalytic Approach to Aesthetic Form, International Universities Press, New York, 1980.
- Rose, Gilbert J., Trauma and Mastery in Life and Art, Yale University Press, Inc., New Haven and London, 1987.
- Rothenberg, Albert, Creativity and Madness, The Johns Hopkins Univerity Press, Baltimore and London, 1990.
- Rothenberg, Albert, The Emerging Goddess, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1979.
- Socarides, Charles W. and Kramer, Selma, (Eds.), Work and Its Inhibitions: Psychoanalytic Essays, International Universities Press, Inc., New York, 1996.
- Vaillant, George E., Adaption to Life Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1977.
- Winnicott, D. W., Playing and Reality, Routledge, Division of Routledge, Chapman and Hall, Inc., New York, 1989.
This is my window/mirror that I created for one of my art projects.
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last updated january 14, 1997