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Creativity as Strategy
Creativity as Strategy presents creativity as a technology for making change and innovation across disciplines. Working at the intersection of art, creativity, and everyday life, this class aims to fundamentally change the way people imagine creative practice, challenging the popular notion that creativity is exclusive to artists.
From Indigenous scholars to social scientists, we examine the work of visionaries from different fields to expand our understanding of creativity, discipline, and practice. In addition to academic texts, we facilitate an interactive learning environment, with self-assessment prompts and collaborative group discussions.
This class is designed to nurture imagination, critical thinking, resilience, and self-determination–skills that are necessary to meet the critical challenges of this cultural and historical moment. Learn to change your work habits, find collaborators, avoid burnout, and enjoy creating. Define creativity for yourself and build a practice that fits YOU!
Enrollment
- Enrollment through your home campus; contact your OSLEP campus coordinator for information
- OSLEP provides all required reading materials at no additional cost-NO books to buy!
- Housing and meals provided
- In-person residential seminar
Scholar
Isa Rodriguez and Dylan Cale Jones
Practice Practice
Practice Practice was founded in 2021 by Isa Rodriguez and Dylan Cale Jones. Working at the intersection of art, creativity, and every-day life, Practice Practice presents creativity as a technology for liberation and aims to address the critical challenges artists face in their work advancing social transformation.
In 2023, they received a THRIVE! Grant from The Andy Warhol Foundation and Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition to publish their first book, How to Keep Creating and launch Practice Practice Podcast, an archive of interviews with Oklahoma-based artists
Practice Practice has presented workshops on creativity for Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center, Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition, Oklahoma City Public Schools, and Freedom Oklahoma. Their book is available online and in print at Printed Matter (NYC), Joan Flasch Artists Book Collection (Chicago, IL), and University of Arizona libraries (Tucson, AZ).
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