To achieve or maintain a sustainable, thriving creative practice, students may need to mend the “Broken Artist” that dwells inside. Students may have struggled for years to overcome criticisms, or even outright assaults, to creative identity, efforts, and outcomes.
The inner journey to restore creative potential will follow a “crooked path” that renews hopes and dreams, as well as engages challenges and shortcomings. This 3-week workshop will help reclaim artistic desire, inner strength, and creative potency that may have been felt lost.
For more information on Michelle Rothwell: https://www.holisticcreativity.com/
BIO
Michelle Rothwell is an Associate Professor of Art, Media, and Design with over 20 years of college teaching experience and professional creative practices. During her career in academia, she created multiple degree programs for several colleges and universities, designed dozens of courses, and mentored hundreds of students and peers. She is the founder of the Game Art BFA program at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Mrs. Rothwell has more than 30 years of experience in both creative and technology-based fields. She has served in a wide range of professional roles, including Director of Information Architecture, Interaction/Interface/Experience Designer, Virtual Reality Researcher, Product Developer, and Fine Artist. Her client list includes DuPont, Proctor & Gamble, GlaxoSmithKline, Merrill Lynch, AstraZeneca, SAP, Qwest Communications and Unisys.
Michelle designed and developed a dynamic and systemic toolset for creative transformation called, Holistic Creativity. It combines her research and experience in the Arts with 25 years of experience devoted to ancient Spiritual-healing and Mindfulness modalities.
Michelle is a practicing Fine Artist whose work has been shown nationally in solo, juried, and group shows. Her work brings attention to the clash between Nature’s elegant forms, materials, and ecosystems and the relative crudeness of man-made objects, substances, and processes. She explores the relationships that merge the elegant forms and functions of Nature with the Artifacts created by human beings. Michelle’s Virtual Sculptures, Virtual Environments, Collages, and Drawings juxtapose organic and inorganic surfaces in order to engage our innate sensory awareness of our surroundings.