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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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Find Your Artistic Voice: The Essential Guide to Working Your Creative Magic (Art Book for Artists, Creative Self-Help Book)

Bestselling author, artist, and illustrator Lisa Congdon brings her expertise to this guide to the process of artistic self-discovery. This one-of-a-kind book helps artists navigate the influence of creators they admire, while simultaneously appreciating the value of their personal journey.

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Feck Perfuction: Dangerous Ideas on the Business of Life

Begin before you’re ready and other lessons on living a happy and creative life: Renowned designer and professional hell-raiser James Victore wants to drag you off your couch and throw you headfirst into a life of bold creativity.

James Victore, Danielle LaPorte (foreword)

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Healing the Divide: Poems of Kindness and Connection

This anthology features poems by Mark Doty, Ross Gay, Donald Hall, Marie Howe, Naomi Shihab Nye and many others. These poets, from all walks of life, and from all over America, prove to us the possibility of creating in our lives what Dr.

James Crews, Ted Kooser

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Life Without Envy: Ego Management for Creative People

Life Without Envy by Camille DeAngelis is a game-changer for artists of all stripes: a practical guide for navigating the feelings of jealousy, frustration, and inadequacy we all experience to create a happy life regardless of how your career is (or isn’t) going.

Camille DeAngelis

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Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad

In his previous books Steal Like an Artist and Show Your Work!, both New York Times bestsellers, Austin Kleon gave readers the keys to unlock their creativity and showed them how to become known.

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First We Read, Then We Write: Emerson on the Creative Process

Writing was the central passion of Emerson’s life.

Robert D. Richardson

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Workflow: A Practical Guide to the Creative Process

A pro isn’t just a person who can do it well. It’s a person who can do it well every time, on demand and on deadline; which is why the key to being a professional creative is having a great creative process.

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Creative Careers: Making a Living with Your Ideas

In one of the most popular classes at Parsons School of Design, B. Jeffrey Madoff gave students a reality check: "Most of us have had the feeling of 'I could've done that,' whether at an art gallery, watching a performance, or finding a new product or even a new business idea.

B. Jeffrey Madoff

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The Musician’s Way: A Guide to Practice, Performance, and Wellness

In The Musician’s Way, veteran performer and educator Gerald Klickstein combines the latest research with his 30 years of professional experience to provide aspiring musicians with a roadmap to artistic excellence.

Gerald Klickstein

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Handmade: Creative Focus in the Age of Distraction

In an era when there are countless competing claims on one’s attention, how does one find the internal focus to be creative? For master furniture craftsman Gary Rogowski, the answer is in the act of creative work itself.

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