Snagging and Keeping your Creativity
Presented by Sharon Peters
Sharon's going to talk about inspiration: where her ideas come from, and how she got them back after the Horrible Inspiration Crash. This is a program for everyone – regardless of what medium one works in.
There'll be bunches of pictures! This presentation has about 400 images, all bright, happy, wacky, and inspiring. You'll see a lot of Sharon's flameworked glass pieces. And then when the glass became uncooperative, you'll see what happened when she tried her designs in clay, metal, paint, and whatever other media came to hand. She'll talk about how that worked, and then (with more flashy fabulous pictures) where you can find tons of inspiration that you can incorporate into your own personal designs. Sharon will cover the value of doodling, photographing interesting details, how to save a stale design, building resource books, creativity exercises, and learning to see the potential design ideas all around you.
About Sharon:
Sharon has a degree in Studio Art from the University of California. She played with printmaking, etching, drawing, painting, fused and stained glass, clay, and multiple assorted crafts before discovering flame worked glass. Revelation! She first melted glass on a torch in March 1996 and found her perfect art form, playing with flame and hot drippy glass. She’s hooked on sculptural and pictorial designs. Her ideas come from everywhere – culture, art history, plants, animals, geology, weather, doodles, fashion, and stuff she’s been drawing/ sculpting she was 3 (that was a very good year!). She believes that Creativity is a resource that can be found, if you just look for it. She spends a lot of torch time experimenting, playing with new designs, trying things out and attempting the impossible, all without producing a single sale-worthy piece of glass... but she finds lots of new ideas!
Hotglass Improv is her favorite tool, and it’s helped her to continue growing as an artist and technician, and often produces some pretty interesting designs. Sharon has been teaching in the U.S. and Europe since 1998, and her work has been featured in numerous publications, most recently ‘The Masters: Glass Beads’. Check out her website, www.smartassglass.com
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Tuesday, January 17, 2012 at 7:30 p.m.
Social half-hour at 7 pm with coffee/tea
Courtyard Marriott,
5555 Shellmound,
Emeryville, CA 94605.
The Courtyard is further south in the same mall as the Four Points hotel. The parking lot is a gated surface lot around the hotel. Bring your parking ticket into the hotel, it will be validated after the meeting and BSNC will pay the parking fee.
Members free with membership card, non-members $5
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