Creativity & Innovation Block 7 Updates and Opportunities

From Source to Mouth: Monument Creek  Thursday, April 20 (TODAY) Presentation at 4 pm, reception to follow Cornerstone Screening Room What is Monument Creek? What does it mean? Who is it for, and how was it made?  Artist and writer Erin Elder has been making place-based work for 20 years and now turns attention to …

Creativity & Innovation Block 6 Newsletter

Creativity and Doubt  Jessica Hunter, PhD Associate Director of Creativity & Innovation To have doubt is to be in a vulnerable position, uncomfortable, unsafe, and potentially threatened. But for anyone trying to discover, create, imagine, or feel, doubt marks the territory of operations. It gives us access to perceptions, interactions of the senses and the …

Creativity & Innovation Block 5 Updates and Opportunities

Creativity & Innovation’s most recent Innovator in Residence, Shodekeh Talifero, performs at New York’s Kennedy Center on Friday, February 24th at 6 pm ET. MILLENNIUM STAGE (IN-PERSON AND LIVESTREAM)  Dominic Shodekeh Talifero: Ideations of Hope This 60-minute concert testimonial and master performance follow Dominic Shodekeh Talifero’s personal and professional journey through time.  Friday, February 24th …

Creativity & Innovation Block 4 Newsletter

Visual Notebooks In June, Creativity & Innovation Faculty Fellow Kris Stanec began a research project on how the use of Visual Notebooks enhances learning outcomes for students. This fall, she collaborated with faculty in eleven classes to run pilots that tested the effectiveness of Visual Notebooks. Creativity & Innovation provided faculty members and students with …

Creativity & Innovation Block 3 Updates and Opportunities

What role does creativity play in sustaining a friendship? What role does friendship play in sustaining a creative practice? Teal Fitzpatrick and Giselle Restrepo met at Colorado College more than twenty years ago and have nurtured a friendship in which their creative work plays a joyful and central role. This exhibit inspired both artists to …

Creativity & Innovation Block 2 Newsletter

Reflections on Collaborative Creativity “Forget the myths about historical inventors; the truth is always a story of group genius.”   —   Keith Sawyer As the world tries to shrug off the lingering effects of the pandemic and feel its way toward in-person interactions again, many people are reassessing the value of collaboration in their creative lives. …

Creativity & Innovation Block 8 Newsletter

From Dez Stone Menendez, Director of Creativity & Innovation at CC “I feel a tremendous amount of pride in the C&I team when I look at how the program has exponentially grown over the last six years.” Innovators in Residence: AY2021 – 2022 Since its inception in 2016, the Innovator in Residence program has quickly …

Creativity & Innovation Block 6 Newsletter

The Creative Lab: Crafting a Culture of Creativity at CC by Kris Stanec Since I started last August as C & I’s Faculty Fellow, much of what I do involves one-on-one conversations with faculty to integrate creative exercises into their specific courses. This “boutique” approach takes a lot of time: listening, asking questions, sharing ideas, …

Creativity & Innovation Updates and Opportunities, Block 3, Week 3

View this email in your browser Updates & Opportunities Block 3, Week 3 Block 4 First Monday Presentation by Director of Creativity & Innovation Dez Stone Menendez ’00 Monday, November 29th, 2021  11:15 a.m. Register in advance for this webinar here.  View the event on the Campus Calendar here.   What is Innovation, Anyway? Creativity …

Creativity & Innovation Newsletter, Block 2, Week 4

View this email in your browser Newsletter Block 2, Week 4, 2021 “Why is creativity important for culture? Because it is the main engine behind cultural change and transformation. Whenever old solutions no longer apply or new problems emerge, creativity is called upon to add, change, enrich, simplify or purely to beautify the world. And …