CREATIVITY FOCUSING

Creative arts activities that blend the fundamental principles of design with Focusing principles, with or without references to museum art

As one of the MAIF programs, Creativity Focusing provides access to artistic practices that will unleash your inner artist and help you develop your creative voice

Creativity Focusing (CF) uses Felt Sense-Based Art practices,  art from museum collections, and hands-on techniques for visual art-making to help you move toward a more creative version of yourself

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CF is an action-oriented approach that blends the transformative power of art-making with the fundamental principles of design. CF helps you become more you by creating art you love

CF helps you build a more creative and fulfilling life by cultivating creative shifts in both your art and your daily life

CF restores your full aliveness through a Focusing-informed engagement with the visual arts, which may or may not draw from museum art

CF is a self-exploratory program designed for absolute beginners and for creatives who have lost their creative voice

 

developed by Freda Blob

Art-making is a fresh forming. It's a dialogue that allows for becoming 

Creativity Focusing makes art and a life of wonder and change

Creativity Focusing puts you on a brand new path of creative exploration, celebrating the joy of expanding your creative self

INFOBOX Felt Sense-Based Arts Practices

  • Embodied Doodling: A spontaneous, repetitive art activity that serves as a warm-up for creating Felt Sense artwork

  • Body-Based Abstract Painting: Enhancine your aesthetic awareness through taking artistic risks based on your body's wisdom

  • Experiential Collaging: Finding and expressing aesthetic meaning through outside-in and inside-out felt sensing

  • Expressive Portraits: Get mirrored by your inner artist's loving eye and gain a new sense of yourself as artist-of-becoming

  • Experiential Hand Lettering: Connect to aesthetic meaning by exploring letter character and composition

  • Museum Art-Based Engagement: Make aesthetic connections that respond to your artistic self and nourish your inner artist

  • Dynamic Shape Drawing (DSD): Center yourself by drawing rhythmic lines and shapes inspired by Lombard braid designs

  • Bilateral Body Mapping/Guided Drawing®: Release creative trauma and overcome stoppages of self-actualizing through bilateral expression

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Go Spark Your Art. Create and Work Toward Becoming!