Living a Creative Life: Advice from Printmaking Chair and Alumnus in the Boston Globe
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In a about advice for living a creative life, Printmaking Chair Fred Liang and Alumnus Magda Leon share their thoughts on the artistic process and the importance of learning from struggle and failure.
The two were quoted from previous Globe features saying:
Live in the moment:听笔谤颈苍迟尘补办别谤听聽sees art-making as sacred, and often a struggle: 鈥淚t鈥檚 laborious. That personal moment of just sweating 鈥 it鈥檚 very private, very genuine. That鈥檚 where, for me, the art is. The outcome is the cherry on top.鈥 So value what your art does for you, and maybe you alone. Flamenco choreographer聽聽says her performance 鈥渢akes parts of my life where I feel unseen and transforms them into something that can be seen.鈥
Expect failure:聽It鈥檚 part of the process. When multimedia artist聽聽students fear failure, he tells them, 鈥淚f you look at my studio, it鈥檚 a monument to failure.鈥
鈥淵ou just have to be fearless. You have to blow it up, make bad things, put them aside. Try and understand why they鈥檙e bad,鈥 Donovan said. 鈥淎ll of those experiments lead to other things. It鈥檚 about developing your own language, and you can鈥檛 do it without practice.鈥
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