Art Making as Spiritual Practice @ Virtual NCECA 2021
Heather Nameth Bren’s Creativity and Spirituality Reading List:
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Touring Exhibition: Constructed Mysteries: Spirituality and Creative Practice, curated by Kenneth Steinbach and Michelle Westmark Wingard; #constructed mysteries
The Courage to Create, Rollo May
The Courage to Be, Paul Tillich
Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art, Madeline L’Engle
Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking, David Bayles and Ted Orland
The War of Art: Break through the Blocks and Win your Inner Creative Battles, Steven Pressfeild
The Creative Habit: Learn it and use it for Life, Twyla Tharp
The Book of Doing and Being, Barnet Bain
Creative Practices for Visual Artists, Kenneth Steinbach
Creativity: Where the Divine and the Human Meet, Mathew Fox
Mindset, Carol S. Dweck
Treasures of the Creative Spirit, Peter Piepenburg
Improv Wisdom, Patricia Ryan Madsen
Creativity and Art, Boded
Art and the Christian Mind, Gasque
Who’s Afraid of Modern Art, Siedell
God in the Gallery, Siedell
Creativity and Spirituality, Coleman
Nurturing Creativity in the Classroom, Beghetto and Kaufman
How Dogmatic Beliefs Harm Creativity and Higher Level Thinking, Ambrose and Sternberg
The Effects of Religious Fundamentalism, Gad El-Haq
The Soulwork of Clay: a Hands-on Approach to Spirituality, Bankson
Creativity-Spirituality Rubric by Heather Nameth Bren
