Wednesday, January 06, 2016
What To Unlearn To Be More Creative
Butts In the Seats: I often talk about how artists and arts organizations can exhibit their value to the business community by providing training in various areas like conflict resolution and creativity. As I was reading this article, I recognized that it provided a good basis for conducting a training session. The content can be useful to either to overtly say, these things you learned as a kid run counter to what we are trying to achieve or just to help a trainer understand some of the socialization and training people have received which makes it difficult to embrace the creative process.
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The points that were made in this article really highlight for me the main reasons why it bothers me so much that so many schools cut/ don’t provide funding for their arts programs, since the lessons learned in art (including visual arts, music, theater, etc), in my opinion, aren’t able to be learned in any other discipline. The crucial ideas in art about taking your time, having patience, feeling open to making “mistakes”, and taking risks are all things that aren’t very much encouraged in the more concrete fields of math, science, or even english. To be fair, the author also provides a good point by saying that even art classes given in school have a hard time adhering to these core values (it’s hard to gradually improve at an unsteady pace when you have a looming deadline ahead of you so your teacher can move onto the next project and finish out the curriculum). I also like that this picks up on the idea of needing to make “bad art” continuously in order to learn how to make “good art”; I suppose the traditional school system doesn’t contribute well to this age-old method of producing work until your standards are raised.
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