Connecting With Your Creativity

Connecting With Your Creativity Fall always reminds me going back to school, time for reading, writing and thinking, and so it seems a good occasion to re-engage with our blog. Speaking of reading and writing, I have been struggling with a bit of writers block lately. I have spent so much time focusing on organizational [...]

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10 Quotes to Inspire You: Thoughts on Creating the Future

10 Quotes to Inspire You Thoughts on Creating the Future ********** The best way to predict the future is to invent it. - Alan Kay ***** Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.  – Ella Fitzgerald ***** [...]

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The Art of Inspiration and Insight

The Art of Inspiration and Insight With the new year comes thoughs of new possibilities.  There is something about the change in the calendar that stirs our desire to engage in creating our future. At this time of year we like to be inspired to think in new, positive ways that help us to sort [...]

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Imagination is a Powerful Force

Imagination is a Powerful Force “Imagination is more important than knowledge.” Albert Einstein Imagination is creativity, hope, potential and freedom all rolled up into one. The act of imagining may start off as fanciful and maybe even feel a bit indulgent, but our imagination is a powerful force and has helped to generate great ideas.  [...]

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Mind Your Creativity

Mind Your Creativity We are by nature creative beings.  Creativity is innate to who we are, it is a fundamental part of our nature and important to our individual and community well-being. Left Brain – Right Brain Our brains are made up of two different sides, two hemispheres, with each hemisphere in control of different [...]

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Women’s Words, Voice and Vision

Women Artists and Cultural Change Cleaning out my home office I came across an old syllabus from my first art history class, “Women Artists and Cultural Change”, a class I took at the suggestion of a favorite sociology professor who knew of my interest in gender, feminism and social change. It was in this class [...]

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Take Five! 5 Reasons & Creative Ways to Take a Break

I Took a Break For the month of July I took a break from SpeakArtLoud work. I limited my time on Twitter, held back on posts to Facebook, did not write blogs, delayed work on our program planning and even conducted our quarterly board meeting via email. Taking a break is important.  I know that, [...]

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Getting in Touch with My Creative Side

Getting in Touch with My Creative Side You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. Maya Angelou In addition to working on SpeakArtLoud I have a day job, which means I spend a lot of my time at a computer, busy planning, organizing, researching, writing, scheduling and problem solving.  I [...]

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