The Creative Process In this course, students will have the opportunity to dig deeply into their own creativity and explore the processes by which ideas emerge and are given shape in the arts. The experiential nature of this course integrates cognition and action, mind and body.  Students will engage a range of modes of discovering, knowing, and communicating, which are designed to push them beyond their present state of awareness and level of confidence in their creative power.  Practical work will be closely accompanied by readings and journaling, culminating with the creation and performance of a short project.

Culture as Creative Process This course is designed for students from a broad range of backgrounds and academic disciplines who are interested in developing their unique creative process, researching their cultural history, and creating and revising performance projects that reflect the intersection of the two. Improvisatory tools and guided imagery provide methods for developing creative work. Weekly workshops in movement from the African diaspora, regular journaling, work-in-progress showings, and feedback sessions add further depth. Students will also generate a bibliography relating to their cultural history and present the results of their research in written form. (This course can count for dance and theatre majors as ARDV 0116).

Christal Brown

Julia Proctor

Karima Borni

Lida Winfield

Mira Veikley

Olga Sanchez Saltveit

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This class was a great class to take for a break from academia. It provided a space for self-growth and self-discovery. I would definitely recommend it for freshmen, because it helps ease you into college work.

This course teaches you a lot about the world and yourself if you let it teach you that. You have to surrender to the experience and process, but once you do it is really fulfilling. Christal is very wise and will leave you feeling enlightened. 

Kari is amazing. I've learned the most about myself and the world we live in through her and the content she chooses to include in our in-person class time. She is sweet, understanding, and her expectations are clear. 