Creative Process Mentoring
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PHILOSOPHY and DESCRIPTION OF SERVICES
I like to have conversations with people about their art.
I am a visual artist and writer, who has taught, edited, curated, and conversed with other artists for a number of decades. As a young woman, I studied at the New York Feminist Art Institute in New York City, and later completed my M.A. in “The Creative Process in the Arts” at Lesley University in Cambridge, MA.
Along the way I realized that “craft” is multi-dimensional. It involves the mastery of techniques, tools, and materials unique to each discipline, but more fundamentally, it involves the development of skills and attitudes that are universal to all artistic endeavors: cultivating receptivity and openness, taking a non-judging stance, trusting one’s pre-existing originality.
I emphasize the latter but do not neglect the former.
I work with both artists and writers, beginning and experienced, who want to deepen their relationship to their own work and creative process. I visit artists’ studios for in-depth conversation and looking at work, and correspond with writers about their individual poems and manuscripts and other writerly concerns.
