WavePencilBone: Conjuring Creativity

WavePencilBone is guided by the principle that creative work flourishes through new approaches to known forms, and that inspiration is fueled by the integration of poetry, drawing, movement, and sound.

This workshop will provide K-12 teachers with simple time-tested tricks that set the stage for creative problem solving in their classrooms. The practices taught here bring together the fields of writing, art, music and movement, creating the conditions for innovation and revelation in learners young and old.

Participants will:

• Get comfortable juggling various artistic disciplines and explore the creative potential of combining them.

• Be trained to lead a K-12 classroom in six creative exercises involving writing/drawing, movement/dance/tableau, and sound making/sound interpreting.

• Receive materials and explanations of ten additional exercises with similar designs.

• Design their own creative exercises that involve the combination or hybridization of at least three art forms.

• Have fun!

Dates:  Wednesday-Thursday, August 8-9, 2012

Times:  1-4 p.m. Wednesday, and 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. Thursday

Location:  Lewis & Clark graduate campus, South Chapel

Noncredit/CEU: 7.5 hours, $75; $40 for students.

Registration form (PDF)

About the Instructor

David Lochtie is a visual artist, writer and educator. He experiments in hybrid art forms: visual depictions of music, object poetry, word/image combinations, and drawing with the body. Interdisciplinary work with children and adults over two decades has helped him develop tricks and games to conjure creativity in the classroom. David has taught art and the humanities in public schools since 1990 and been included in more than two-dozen exhibitions of artwork in the Pacific Northwest. Visit www.davidlochtie.com for more.

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