Forms of inspiration
In a class I taught last fall, I posed the question, “What inspires you?” The following is what the students came up with. I’ve had…
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Textile & clothing class at Iowa State University, 1956
I discovered my mother’s final project for her Textile and Clothing class. She got a B on the project, even though it looks like many…
Reflections on life’s journeys: A poem from Tamika Harmon’s Known and Unknown
For several years, I lived in Northwest Montana among a cool crowd of creative, hippie folk. (Before this I had thought that the only interesting…
Exploring creativity and transformation: Magical creatures at the Sophia Center
Last Monday at the Sophia Center, we dived into an art project that sounded light-hearted: making creatures with “magical” powers. I expected the class to…
Finding our center through beauty
“If we get lost in dark despair, beauty takes us back to center.”— Piero Ferrucci Anyone need that reminder right now? 🙂 In a world…
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