YOU ARE CREATIVE!
(EVEN IF YOU DON'T THINK SO.)
Start Unlocking Your Creative Potential Today!
Unlocking your creative potential is about so much more than making art,
it's about transforming your life and community.
THE PURPOSE
Creativity is a fundamental human ability, available to all, and a vital pathway to human flourishing. This workshop provides a safe and supportive environment for participants to explore, develop, and apply creative principles in order to enhance their personal and professional lives.
THE WHY
In today's fast-paced and often stressful world, many individuals feel disconnected from their creative potential and as such, struggle to cultivate a sense of well-being. This disconnect can lead to feelings of stagnation, isolation, helplessness and weakened community connections.
Not only may this effect our ability to enjoy and shape our daily life, but it can cloud our belief systems about self and others as well as our views of the world and our place in it.
THE BENEFITS
Learning to tap into your innate creativity can offer transformative benefits:
Personal Flourishing:
Elevate overall well-being and life satisfaction.
Lifelong Growth:
Promote continuous learning and personal development through creative practice.
Community Resilience:
When applied within a larger community context, contributes to stronger, more resilient communities.
Don't wait a second longer to start your creative journey.
WORKSHOP DATES
Currently Available:
Wednesday, September 9th, 6-8:30pm
Thursday, September 10th, 6-8:30pm
Please note that new dates and times will be added weekly throughout September.
Each workshop is limited to 10 people.
These workshops are free and all materials are provided.
WHAT TO EXPECT
- Within 1 to 2 days upon registration you will receive a confirmation email.
- All workshops will take place at the Rogue Buddha Gallery in NE Minneapolis.
- Participants are asked to arrive 10 minutes early to settle in.
- Light snacks, tea and water will be provided.
- The duration of the workshop is 2.5 hours and includes an introductory discussion on creativity, its principles, various hurdles and practical methods of application.
- Following the introduction, participants will engage in a communal art project. All materials are provided and no experience is necessary. In fact, lack of artistic experience is encouraged.
- The workshop will conclude with an open discussion and brief survey.
- The workshop will be conducted by Nicholas Harper.
About Nicholas Harper
Nicholas Harper has been a professional artist for 30 years and the owner/curator of the Rogue Buddha Gallery for 26 years. In addition to being Atelier trained in figurative art, Harper received his degree in Retail Merchandising with an emphasis in Clothing Design from the University of Minnesota.
Before opening the Rogue Buddha Gallery, Harper worked for clothing designer/photographer/hair stylist Kit Rogers, a 3M think tank and professional artist, Thomas Kinkaid. Perhaps less glamorously, Harper also worked pouring concrete and as a salesman in several retail stores.
While working at these various jobs, often, working two at the same time, he continued to paint and exhibit in coffee shops and night clubs, refusing to let his creative impulses stagnate, even if it only meant painting one hour per day.
Harper is a life long student of creativity and proponent of its inherent value in our everyday life.
"I think the greatest gift we have is the ability to be the designers of our day, and in many ways, to be the architects of our life. That for me is the greatest form of art. Being a painter is just the icing on a cake that's still baking and has a long way to go before it's done..."
About the Minneapolis Partnership Engagement Fund
This workshop is made possible by the generous support of the Minneapolis Partnership Engagement Fund where ommunity organizations, groups and individuals receive funding for small-scale, meaningful projects to make Minneapolis communities more socially connected, healthy and safe.
Awardees work with one of the City's 68 neighborhood organizations in order to help their project come to fruition. This workshop is made in partnership with the Sheridan Neighborhood Organization.
UPCOMING EVENTS AT THE ROGUE BUDDHA GALLERY
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Next Cafe:
Sunday, September 27th, 6-7pm
(Please arrive 10 minutes early)
Hello Death Cafe Family! Our next DC will be a return to the normal conversation based DC model at the Rogue Buddha Gallery.
We look forward to seeing you on the 27th!