Six Thursdays, September 24 – October 29; 1:30pm to 3:30pm

Instructor: Sherri Silverman

Denise Levertov spoke of “tapping the buried fountain in the poet from which the music flows”. In this six-week seminar course we will explore how to enrich our lives and our thinking by opening up our creative resources.

You will look at Eastern and Western theories of creativity in terms of the source, purpose, and mechanics of creativity and its effect on the creator, the viewer, and society. You will study the words of a wide range of creative people, developing a greater understanding of creativity and the thought process.

The six meetings will include discussions of assigned readings, instructor presentations, and hands-on artmaking. You will have opportunities to play and explore without worrying about the product. You will have the chance to journal about your creative ideas, contemplations, and reflections on the readings, and at home you will pursue an original creative project in an unfamiliar medium of your choice. This course is participatory, life-changing, and fun.

Sherri Silverman is a mostly self-taught visual artist with a doctorate in Creativity, the Arts, and the Sacred/Application of Asian Concepts. She first developed and taught this course for the Honors Programs at University of North Florida and University of New Mexico, where students said it changed their lives.

Over fifty years of meditation practice informs her energy and approach to art. Her explorations of inner being, consciousness, and nature have led to paintings, pastels, and mixed media art that evoke happiness, serenity, and expansiveness. Sherri’s work is on permanent display in the New Mexico Capitol Art Collection and is included in the book 100 Artists of the Southwest.

Website: www.sherrisilverman.com Instagram: @sherrisilvermanstudio

Fee: MarinMOCA Members: $510; Non-members $600

Materials Fee: Books are not included. A reading list will be provided upon registration

Where: Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, 1210 Fifth Avenue, San Rafael (at B Street)