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Workshops on Memory, Metaphor and Creativity
Art, Science, History, and Language Since 1998, I have been designing and leading interactive workshops, dealing with memory and its relationship to creativity and metaphor, memory and the senses, and memory and social issues. Through an exploration of memory, these workshops are designed to be informal and engaging, Each participant creates something that has personal meaning, and provides new ways of recollecting, seeing and finding patterns of connections, empowering you to recognize your own potential for creativity, and find out how memory and creativity inform and shape one another. "When we examine memory, there’s the potential to understand our own individual experience more fully, to see who we are – and at the same time find points of connections with others. Our culture focuses on verbal learning and learning without art, this puts restraints on all of learning". From A Place for Memory: Where Art and Science Meet, by Patricia Moss-Vreeland Penn Memory Center Workshop
in conjunction with my exhibition, Revelations and Transformation, Layers of Memory |
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The opportunity to create these workshops began with a commission to design Memory-Connections Matter, as the Millennial Exhibition in the Art-in-Science Series, at the University City Science Center, EKG, Philadelphia, and later, for conferences. In 2013, with the publication of my book, A Place for Memory: Where Art and Science Meet, I was able to expand upon my work to form new additions to my workshops. I have worked with many different public and private secondary schools, college and graduate schools, in most disciplines, and professional groups. Recently, additions to my work with memory, include solo exhibitions, a TEDx talk, A Place in Memory, May 2015, and an interview for the Interalia Magazine's Memory Networks Issue, September 2016. Through an exploration of memory, these workshops, are designed to be informal and engaging, Each participant creates something that has personal meaning, and provides new ways of recollecting, seeing and finding patterns of connections, empowering you to recognize your own potential for creativity, and find out how memory and creativity inform and shape one another.
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