AE 406-01, SF 184-21 Art Education Portfolio
“The more ideas you give away, the better the ideas you’ll get in return.”

The objective of this exercise is to explore your creative process. Complete this series of questions below and bring to class examples of previous finished work, journals, sketchbooks etc.

1. Identify Your:
Inspiration-

Working Environment-

Working Process-

Motivation-

Reading

Most inspiring person

-Write no less than 2 paragraphs for each topic. Typed and spell checked.

2. Write 3 + “morning” pages a day in your notebooks. 3X7= 21 + pages
from: The Artists Way -Julia Cameron
-3 pages of writing, strictly stream of consciousness...
_There is no wrong way to do the morning pages. Meaning, DOING THEM, PERIOD, is the right way.
-Doing your morning pages, you are sending--notifying yourself and the universe of your dreams, dissatisfactions, hopes.
-Do not judge what your are writing.
-Do anything until you have filled 3 pages. Write the same word over and over until the next one comes. Don’t worry about punctuation etc.
-The time given to morning pages will be led to new sources of support as you begin to support yourself.
-We begin to sort through the differences between our real feelings, which are often secret, and our official feelings....

Due: Tuesday Sept. 18
1. Previous Work bring to class AND supporting materials: journals, sketchbooks etc.
2. Typed answers to questions above
3. 21+ hand written journal entries