Article / Video: Cultivating Creativity

Here is an interactive article, Cultivating Creativity from the Washington Post, discussing the nature of creativity as used by improv artists, jazz musicians, and rappers. Exposure to creative pathways, whatever the source, is always helpful.

Can the experiences of these artists apply to wall art and sculpture?

Jasper Johns, Flag, encaustic and collage on canvas

In an article in the Wall Street Journal today, Jasper Johns is quoted on Sept 23: 

Mr. Johns, who turned 88 in May, has just finished an etching and is working on a painting. He finds ideas everywhere, saying, "I doubt that there is any limitation to what can act as a trigger.”

CULTIVATING CREATIVITY

from the Washington Post

Science has not fully mapped the neural network of creativity — that’s years, maybe decades, away. But brain studies suggest that creativity is a basic human function. It’s part of our biology, available to all of us. As improv artists show us, creativity can be cultivated by practice, which strengthens the neural pathways that lead to new possibilities.

Cultivating Creativity Credits:

REPORTING AND WRITING
Sarah L. Kaufman
VIDEO PRODUCTION AND EDITING
Jayne Orenstein
MOTION GRAPHICS
Sarah Hashemi
PHOTO EDITING
May-Ying Lam
PHOTOGRAPHY
Tim Coburn (Jason Moran) and Marvin Joseph (GoldLink, UCB)
DESIGN AND PRODUCTION
Shelly Tan and Elizabeth Hart
EDITING
Alexa McMahon, Mitch Rubin, Suzette Moyer and Kaeti Hinck
COPY EDITING
Jim Webster and Jay Wang
VIDEOGRAPHY
Daniel Mich, Breanna Muir, Adriana Usero and Victoria Walker
MUSIC
Original composition by Jason Moran; Roy Beat by Tom Misch
ADDITIONAL PHOTOS AND FOOTAGE
Courtesy of Charles Limb, neuroscientist, surgeon and professor of otolaryngology at University of California at San Francisco
SPECIAL THANKS
Project filmed on location at Sixth & I Historic Synagogue, the Kennedy Center and Studio Theatre