Creativity is a Teachable, Learnable Skill. Artist, Author and Educator Dorothy Fagan Gives a Demonstration Illustrating the Essential Components of the Creative Process.
Using her landscape paintings, 30 pristine coastal marshes along the Chesapeake, Fagan shows how the earth plays a critical role in the creative process. The paintings featured in her exhibition at Wide River Gallery and in her ground-breaking new book, "The Suncatcher," illustrate her poem, "If I am the Earth" and demonstrate the process. Demonstration: Sat., Sept. 13, 11:00 am Wide River Gallery, 215-A Wash. St., Colonial Beach, VA.
Colonial Beach, VA, September 08, 2008 --(PR.com)-- Painting Demonstration & Exhibit
Demo: Sat., Sept. 13, 11:00 am Wide River Gallery
Exhibit: Sept. 12 - Oct 5.
Opening Reception with the Artist: Sept. 12 6-8 pm
Both events are free and open to the public.
Fagan has studied creativity for thirty years. In all areas of her art career, she has relied on her ability to deliver inspiration on a schedule. Now able to transcribe her findings in a teachable format, she wrote her book for the Creativity Program which she led at Baker University this summer.
Many of the students in Fagan’s graduate course at Baker were teachers themselves. Pam Baker, a fifth grade teacher from Kansas shared her surprise, “To be honest, I was a nay-sayer when I started this course. How was this mathematical, logical, sequential, black and white thinker going to do this? Then I began to understand the concepts that were being taught. I saw value in the lessons learned and how they could change my life. I have gained life skills that will stay with me for all the years I have yet to live!"
Fagan has translated her successful curriculum with the Baker students this summer into a pilot program for eleven Mathews County, Virginia middle school students this fall. Through the Bay School for Cultural Arts Center in Mathews, Fagan is participating in an after-school fine art grant through which selected 6th, 7th and 8th grade students will have the opportunity to test out her curriculum for themselves starting in September. For them, she has developed a "Ping Journal," a creativity training manual which each student can take with them into other fields of endeavor when they leave her studio after 6 basic lessons.
Bio
Dorothy Fagan and her paintings have been featured on a PBS special and are represented in numerous public and private collections. She serves on the Board of The Williamsburg Land Conservancy and is committed to educating people about the connection between the earth and creativity. She is an entrepreneurial representative on the Board of the Middle Peninsula Business Development Partnership and serves on a committee with organizations in Williamsburg, Va in creating a regional Plein Air Painting Festival.
A painter working in Mathews County, Virginia, she paints en plein air and in the luminist style. Her paintings are influenced by American Impressionists including Elliot Clark, George Innes and Martin J. Heade. Fagan paints the fleeting light and coastal marshes along the Chesapeake and the Low Country of the Carolinas. She also paints the rolling hills and mountain streams of the Appalachian Mountains. In both genres, she asks the viewer to share her intense feelings for the land by seeing it’s subtle and sometimes startling colors. Her paintings most often feature areas of pristine, unspoiled landscape with the occasional presence of man.
Her paintings are in the collections of the City University of New York, General Electric, First National Exchange Bank, International Paper, Emory University, Longwood College, Monarch Bank, Towne Bank, AAA and Coldwell Banker. Her work has been included in exhibitions at The Pastel Society of America, The Pastel Society of Canada, The Copley Society, The Virginia Museum of Fine Art, the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, American Artists Professional League, Salmagundi Club, the National Arts Club, G. V. W. Smith Museum of Art and the Rawls Museum. Her work is published and distributed by Joan Cawley Gallery and The Bently Publishing Group.
Quotes
“Like riding a bicycle, balancing creativity is a matter of practice. Everyone has experienced getting on and catching the ah-haa!” explains Fagan. ”Riding the wave of inspiration energizes us.”
“Whether you are an artist or not, you can learn what you did to cause the spark of inspiration. Once you do, you are able get back in balance quickly when something knocks you off course,” she continues. “Blocked creative energy makes us feel tired and overwhelmed. Releasing it’s potential is as simple as knowing what to look for.”
Wide River Gallery: (804) 224-9984
Fagan Studio: (804) 725-1183
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Demo: Sat., Sept. 13, 11:00 am Wide River Gallery
Exhibit: Sept. 12 - Oct 5.
Opening Reception with the Artist: Sept. 12 6-8 pm
Both events are free and open to the public.
Fagan has studied creativity for thirty years. In all areas of her art career, she has relied on her ability to deliver inspiration on a schedule. Now able to transcribe her findings in a teachable format, she wrote her book for the Creativity Program which she led at Baker University this summer.
Many of the students in Fagan’s graduate course at Baker were teachers themselves. Pam Baker, a fifth grade teacher from Kansas shared her surprise, “To be honest, I was a nay-sayer when I started this course. How was this mathematical, logical, sequential, black and white thinker going to do this? Then I began to understand the concepts that were being taught. I saw value in the lessons learned and how they could change my life. I have gained life skills that will stay with me for all the years I have yet to live!"
Fagan has translated her successful curriculum with the Baker students this summer into a pilot program for eleven Mathews County, Virginia middle school students this fall. Through the Bay School for Cultural Arts Center in Mathews, Fagan is participating in an after-school fine art grant through which selected 6th, 7th and 8th grade students will have the opportunity to test out her curriculum for themselves starting in September. For them, she has developed a "Ping Journal," a creativity training manual which each student can take with them into other fields of endeavor when they leave her studio after 6 basic lessons.
Bio
Dorothy Fagan and her paintings have been featured on a PBS special and are represented in numerous public and private collections. She serves on the Board of The Williamsburg Land Conservancy and is committed to educating people about the connection between the earth and creativity. She is an entrepreneurial representative on the Board of the Middle Peninsula Business Development Partnership and serves on a committee with organizations in Williamsburg, Va in creating a regional Plein Air Painting Festival.
A painter working in Mathews County, Virginia, she paints en plein air and in the luminist style. Her paintings are influenced by American Impressionists including Elliot Clark, George Innes and Martin J. Heade. Fagan paints the fleeting light and coastal marshes along the Chesapeake and the Low Country of the Carolinas. She also paints the rolling hills and mountain streams of the Appalachian Mountains. In both genres, she asks the viewer to share her intense feelings for the land by seeing it’s subtle and sometimes startling colors. Her paintings most often feature areas of pristine, unspoiled landscape with the occasional presence of man.
Her paintings are in the collections of the City University of New York, General Electric, First National Exchange Bank, International Paper, Emory University, Longwood College, Monarch Bank, Towne Bank, AAA and Coldwell Banker. Her work has been included in exhibitions at The Pastel Society of America, The Pastel Society of Canada, The Copley Society, The Virginia Museum of Fine Art, the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, American Artists Professional League, Salmagundi Club, the National Arts Club, G. V. W. Smith Museum of Art and the Rawls Museum. Her work is published and distributed by Joan Cawley Gallery and The Bently Publishing Group.
Quotes
“Like riding a bicycle, balancing creativity is a matter of practice. Everyone has experienced getting on and catching the ah-haa!” explains Fagan. ”Riding the wave of inspiration energizes us.”
“Whether you are an artist or not, you can learn what you did to cause the spark of inspiration. Once you do, you are able get back in balance quickly when something knocks you off course,” she continues. “Blocked creative energy makes us feel tired and overwhelmed. Releasing it’s potential is as simple as knowing what to look for.”
Wide River Gallery: (804) 224-9984
Fagan Studio: (804) 725-1183
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