Imagining Something is the First Step to Making it Happen
"Creative Concepts" - a free three-day design workshop in The Glucksman Gallery, University College Cork. 24th to 26th May, 2017
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| The Glucksman |
"The Creative Concepts workshop is designed to help students and staff of varied levels and disciplines expand their perceptive ability and intuitive intelligence. Drawing and collage will serve as the basis for exploring and conveying provocative themes and concepts. Unusual, yet cohesive solutions to visual problems are found by tricking the rational mind into “losing its grip”. Participation involves a whole-brained experience of exploring and integrating information, where analogies are drawn and "the whole is always greater than the sum of its parts.”
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| The Creative Concepts Crew (Minus a Few) |
This three-day workshop was divided into morning and afternoon sessions. We started with a more personal exercise in self-reflection/expression using collage, a mixing-and-matching activity as creativity warm up. Then led into projects using skills and concepts that subtly build upon one another. The culminating project, Seeing and Drawing Sounds, offered more leeway, allowing for the free adaptation of the skills and concepts covered.
Personal Collage Narrative (Past, Present & Future):
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| Getting Started |
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| Love in the Digital Age |
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| Adept Integration of Forms |
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| Have You Tried Chartreuse? |
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| Serious Work Flow! |
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| Dual Projects! |
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| A Mystical Narrative |
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| A Comfortable Corner |
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| Nature Consciousness |
A Participant's Perspective on Collage Narrative:
Drawing Exercise - Experiencing the Shift to the Right Side of the Brain.
Upside Down Contour Drawing of Irish Poet Samuel Beckett.
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On The Screen: Irish Poet Samuel Beckett by Photographer John Minihan
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Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
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| Admiring the Results |
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| Turned Right Side Up |
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| A Few Adaptations-Working Up The Darks |
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| Exercise Complete! |
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| Comparing Notes |
A Participant's Perspective on Drawing Upside Down:
Designing Tessellations
The Intersection of Math and Art-Square Template Method:
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| Cloth Sample of Silkscreened Tessellation Design |
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| Mountain Top Tessellation Demo Drawing |
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| Busy Designing Tessellations |
A Participant's Perspective on Designing Tessellations:
Design Systems and Structures
Designing From Nature and Using Undifferentiated Substructures (students were given a choice between three different projects):
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| Map Projection Demo (Undifferentiated Substructure) |
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| Native Faces in the North Carolina Coast |
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| Finished Map Projection by Workshop Participant |
A Participant's Perspective on Map Projections:
Seeing and Drawing Sounds
Songs of the Humpback Whale and Classic Jazz Greats: Don Cherry; Dewey Redden; Charlie Haden; Ed Blackwell and Kenny Garrett:
Sounds Seen:
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| Sounds Abound! |
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| Circulating Sounds! |
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| Landscapes of Sound |
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| Triple Inspiration! |
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| Sound Cornucopia |
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| Deep Blue Sound |
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| Jazz Syncopation Sounds |
A Participant's Perspective on Seeing Sounds:
Watch The Video "Creative Concepts" UCC Teaching Travelogue Part 1
Have you ever dabbled in iMovie? If so, and if you’re somewhat geeky, you know that it’s way too fun to learn, and takes up way too much time! I taught myself how to use iMovie in 2015 during a stint of jet lag after arriving in Hangzhou, China for a month-long teaching residency. Basically, I was awake in the middle of the night for two weeks straight, which afforded me the quiet time to learn.
…So, I’m happy to announce that this post contains the video ”Creative Concepts” UCC Teaching Travelogue Part 1. It documents the workshop and also re-visits my 2015 family trip to attend the Boole 200 Bicentenary Celebration. There is also a Part 2, which includes a trip to Dublin after delivering the workshop in Cork. For both Parts 1 and 2, Dublin recording artist, Stano generously allowed me free use of the music from three of his recent CDs. This made for a very integrated project, which is, for lack of a better description, a collage experiment done in iMovie.
Please click on images or links below to view Part 1 on YouTube…please subscribe and I’d love to have some feedback if you have time!
A Little Background Info:
In 2015, the descendants of George Boole, which includes my extended family, were invited to the Boole 200 Bicentenary Celebration (1815-2015) at University College Cork, Ireland, where he was Professor of Mathematics. Known as the forefather of the Information Age, Boole, the son of a shoemaker, was largely self-taught.
“George Boole was a mystic genius, whose ideas have utterly transformed the world in which we live. Computers, information storage and retrieval systems, electronic circuits and almost the entire world of present-day technology depend vitally on the simple but ingenious mathematics he invented – Boolean Algebra.” -Desmond MacHale
During this 2015 trip I exhibited two art pieces and gave a lecture at the Boole Library. One of these works, “Circuit Board Thunderbird” was purchased for the library board room.
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| Alyssa Hinton & Olivia Frawley |
I returned in 2017 to deliver a 5 part workshop designed to educate the imaginations of students and staff at UCC, hence the “Creative Concepts” Teaching Travelogue Movie:
“Imagining something is the first step towards making it happen. Education of the imagination can happen by encouraging an expansive thought process through the free association of ideas, allowing for the maximum amount of non-structure and divergence to exist within the framework of a clear structure. Within this balanced paradigm mistakes can readily become opportunities, altering definitions of success and perfection.” -Alyssa Hinton
…CLICK HERE TO READ MORE ABOUT THE ACTUAL CREATIVE CONCEPTS WORKSHOP ON THE UCC WEBSITE! A Creative Concepts Workshop by Alyssa Hinton - George Boole's Great-Great Granddaughter
...CLICK HERE TO READ MORE ABOUT THE ACTUAL CREATIVE CONCEPTS WORKSHOP ON THE UCC WEBSITE! The Creative Concepts - a free three-day design workshop in The Glucksman Gallery, University College Cork. 24th to 26th May, 2017
“Creative Concepts Design Workshop”
Contact Alyssa for info on bringing this workshop to your organization:
alyssahintonartist@gmail.com alyssa@alyssahinton.com
984.234.1407
Price Structure
- Half Day Workshop- $950.00 plus *supply expenses and all travel expenses and accomodations (includes minimum per diem for meals while traveling plus food & lodging for duration of stay)
- Full Day Workshop- $1800.00 plus *supply expenses and all travel expenses and accomodations (includes minimum per diem for meals while traveling plus food & lodging for duration of stay)
- Three Day Workshop- $2500.00 plus *supply expenses and all travel expenses and accomodations (includes minimum per diem for meals while traveling plus food & lodging for duration of stay)
- Full Week Workshop- $3500.00 plus *supply expenses and all travel expenses and accomodations (includes minimum per diem for meals while traveling plus food & lodging for duration of stay)
- *SUPPLIES: I PROVIDE RE-USEABLE MATERIALS SUCH AS SCISSORS AND RULERS FREE OF CHARGE
- *SUPPLIES: NON RE-USEABLE ITEMS SUCH AS PAPER AND GLUE WOULD BE ADDED AS A SUPPLY EXPENSE
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