Archive for the 'General' Category

What are the invisible barriers to creativity?

(I write this thinking… there must be others out there in this boat….)
Creatives can be overwhelmed with the burdens of SHOULDs. We get in our head that we should sell, it should be pretty, it should be current, we should try to show our work, we should be anatomically accurate… the list is endless. [...]

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INVITING ALL HOME SCHOOLERS

We have always believed that young people do not need art “dumbed down” for them. With this in mind we are inviting all of you who home school students to try using our DVD workshops with your kids (of every age). I would like to start a conversation about how you use our DVD workshops [...]

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Summer Garden Party at Creative Catalyst

Saturday evening Creative Catalyst hosted a summer garden party featuring the music of guitarist, Doug Smith and flautist and singer Judy Smith.  We invited CCP Staff, artists and friends.

http://www.dougsmithguitar.com/
 
Lynn and I have seen Doug in concert on a number of occasions and the last time we asked him if he ever played garden [...]

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Craft Cat Newsletter - June, 2007

Summer with Creative Catalyst
Take the Creative Catalyst DVD workshops you love and share them with your family this summer! Use the fun techniques and projects to introduce your kids to concepts like color mixing and grid design while having hours of fun. DVD instructional workshops are a great way to keep kids creative and entertained [...]

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Who’s Kelly?

You might be interested to know who we are here at CCP.  As you might expect, many of the technical aspects are increasingly delegated to the younger members of the team. As one person who wrote us put it, “only those under 30 seem to come at this stuff naturally.” (The writer actually said 25, [...]

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