Humanities and Fine Arts 191HFA57 - FYS- Creative Exploration

We cannot will the happy accidents that inform some of the best creative breakthroughs, but we can train ourselves to be perceptive and set up playful circumstances in which an unpredictable flow of creative making can occur. This seminar is an introduction to journaling, comic creation and other spontaneous art exercises as a practice in heightening awareness, memory and flexible creativity. We will learn to better open our eyes and ears, finding ways to translate our lived experience into creative work. We will take play seriously. We will practice seeing the fantastic within the mundane. We will create the conditions for spontaneity and use our experiments with images and words as vessels to hold memory, documenting the beginning of our new lives on campus.

Open to first-year Humanities and Fine Arts Exploratory Track students and first-year HFA Majors.