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Anchoring Stitches

5/21/2022

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We could talk about my grandmother as someone who lived a life of service and gave of herself regularly to the community - both as the wife of two ministers, and in her own right as she navigated space as a single person.
We could talk about my grandmother as a professional in the medical field. Touched early by rheumatic fever and living ever since with its consequences, she contemplated a study of the sciences. But, influenced by family duty and gender roles, she found a career in hospital administration and made her imprint on medicine by influencing system structure and function.
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You’re always fully dressed with a smile, and she rarely left the house without one.
With her recent passing, I’ve naturally thought so much of her, and how best to describe a long life well lived. What occurred to me is that, alongside the roles of wife, mother, parishioner, volunteer, and professional, one facet touched all the others: her love for, and expression through, fashion.

And because I can still hear her voice softly stating that she was not a “proper” artist, I’ve been exploring this idea that, somehow, art belongs only to professionals or particular domains.

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The Essential Creative Farmer

1/21/2022

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Being someone who is a creative person by nature, I like to think (perhaps like many others) that creativity is something I can dip into without fail - a Mary Poppins' carpet bag of ideas and inspiration. However, there are times that I brush against the bottom of the bag. 
The dreaded block. A resistance to the creative end that feels nonsensical and without cause.​ I've faced this a number of times in both writing and photography. What I've had to learn (and constantly remind myself) is that, in my creative pursuits, even a bottomless bag needs time to replenish. It's at this point that many look to farming for guidance; specifically, the need to let fields - be they carrots or creative pursuits - lie fallow and allow nutrients previously leached by crops to return to the soils. 
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How do you do that, though, when you're farming creativity? For me, a few practices have helped me move through these periods of creative rest.

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Sticky Note Science: A Creative Way to Share Your Research

11/27/2021

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If there's one thing I can achieve through my posts, it's that you are aware of the many more ways to #ShareYourScience beyond journal articles or conference presentations. One unique way of doing this is the sticky note challenge, where you have to communicate your research topic using only one sticky note. Let's check out some examples I've found below the cut, and then I'll show you how I took my own thesis and made it a #PostItNotePhD.
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Seeking Love and Justice for All

10/11/2020

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Art has provided a means to document social injustice and structural racism in ways otherwise impossible given established socioeconomic and political structures, as well as a powerful means of engaging and mobilizing its audience to take action. In our assignment for this final week of Modern Art and Ideas, we were asked to curate a set of images that explore one of the themes discussed. I chose the last theme, an exploration of art's place in society, and curated a set of five artworks, as I am drawn to art as a means of expression and mode of communication when voices of a group are marginalized and silenced. 

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Art, Readymade.

10/7/2020

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Our early art education, and exposure to art through popular culture, has conditioned us to think of art as something particular - a painting, a sculpture.

​This is art; this is not art.

Last week’s homework for Modern Art and Ideas asked us to reconsider those learnings entirely, and go play in the "readymade" space. 

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Exploring Identity in Art

9/24/2020

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Think about various aspects of your own identity. Create or find an image that represents one of more of these aspects
This week's assignment in Modern Art and Ideas was equal measure fascinating and frustrating. I mean, it is an intriguing assignment for me. A key part of my dissertation work explored the impact of continued parental relationships into emerging adulthood on the formation of identity (especially as younger folk struggle to navigate through expectations of the post-boomer cookie-cutter life trajectory). And, visual art gives us so much for tools and inspiration to express the depth and breadth of our selves. 

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Exploring Places and Spaces

9/19/2020

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In the online course, Modern Art & Ideas, from the Museum of Modern Art, Week 2 asks us to consider place and space in the creation and interpretation of art; specifically, to:
Think about a place you’ve visited in the past few weeks that had a strong effect on you. Consider the characteristics of the place that made it distinct, including the mood, environment, people who were around or with you, and your reason for being there. Create or find an image that expresses your experience of that place

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The Art of Creating Amid a Pandemic

9/5/2020

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Searching for a light read for one of my summer vacation weeks, I stumbled across the June/July issue of Vogue.

​Not a publication that normally calls to me, but the issue's theme, 
Creativity in a Time of Crisis, rubbed against the raw nerve that had been inflamed since mid-spring
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