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Six Creative Ways Artists Can Improve Communities

By Laura Zabel — 2015

In cities around the globe, there is an exciting movement afoot to share ideas and models that help connect artists more deeply with their communities.

Read on www.theguardian.com

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On Becoming an Artist: Reinventing Yourself Through Mindful Creativity

On Becoming an Artist is loaded with good news. Backed by her landmark scientific work on mindfulness and artistic nature, bestselling author and Harvard psychologist Ellen J.

Ellen J. Langer

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"My Parents Don't Support Me As An Artist"

DISCLAIMER: This vid...feels risky. I'm praying to god that this doesn't come off wrong--I am NOT at ALL trying to bash young artists, call anyone untalented, or discourage anyone from becoming an artist. My main point was that support comes from hard work, not the other way around.

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The Mindful Musician: Mental Skills for Peak Performance

In The Mindful Musician: Mental Skills for Peak Performance, author Vanessa Cornett offers guidelines to help musicians cultivate artistic vision, objectivity, freedom, quiet awareness, and self-compassion, both on- and offstage in order to become more resilient performers.

Vanessa Cornett

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Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art

Free Play is about the inner sources of spontaneous creation. It is about where art in the widest sense comes from. It is about why we create and what we learn when we do. It is about the flow of unhindered creative energy: the joy of making art in all its varied forms.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

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Every Tool’s a Hammer: Life Is What You Make It

In this New York Times bestselling “imperative how-to for creativity” (Nick Offerman), Adam Savage—star of Discovery Channel’s Mythbusters—shares his golden rules of creativity, from finding inspiration to following through and successfully making your idea a reality.

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Art Therapy for Anxiety and Depression

Art is becoming increasingly recognized for its therapeutic effects on our mental health. It is a technique that is helpful for people of all ages and is known to help improve the symptoms associated with anxiety and depression.

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250 Brief, Creative & Practical Art Therapy Techniques: A Guide for Clinicians and Clients

Creative, fun & fast therapeutic warm-ups! When a client walks into the therapy room they don't know what to expect-feeling anxious, unsure and perhaps fearful.

Susan I. Buchalter

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Focus on the things that ACTUALLY MATTER // Advice for Creatives

"Hey Tom, have you noticed the drop in instagram engagement lately? I've been trying to grow my account and none of my posts seem to be going anywhere" I get asked pretty much daily about my opinions on the algorithm, how to grow on instagram, what I think of X and how I can help someone with Y.

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Ira Glass–The Perpetual Struggle to Find Your Creative Voice

As part of the Create Forever campaign with FUJIFILM, we got a chance to sit down with the legendary Ira Glass and explore why he creates along with what it takes to find that thing that only you can make.

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The Gap by Ira Glass

A video on the importance of 'taste' in creativity and storytelling.

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