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LESSONS FROM !
THE ARTISTS
#
me, !
sketching!
everywhere
#GetsmART: Lessons from the Artists BLC15 Minikeynote
never say…
@adambellow
aren’t we all?
#GetsmART: Lessons from the Artists BLC15 Minikeynote
what can we!
learn from!
great artists?
#GetsmART: Lessons from the Artists BLC15 Minikeynote
#GetsmART: Lessons from the Artists BLC15 Minikeynote
#GetsmART: Lessons from the Artists BLC15 Minikeynote
#GetsmART: Lessons from the Artists BLC15 Minikeynote
once revolution
now ubiquitous
#GetsmART: Lessons from the Artists BLC15 Minikeynote
#GetsmART: Lessons from the Artists BLC15 Minikeynote
#GetsmART: Lessons from the Artists BLC15 Minikeynote
!
personal!
learning
!
get messy !
and real
!
not reactive
proactive
leverage the tech of the day
!
tools inform technique!
“we shape our tools and our tools shape us”
marshall mcluhan
break your bubble
new perspective
!
get a posse !
+ collaborate
#GetsmART: Lessons from the Artists BLC15 Minikeynote
rise above !
your roots
move on…and up
stay curious +!
sharpen senses
make thinking !
visible
creativity is…
connecting dots…
#GetsmART: Lessons from the Artists BLC15 Minikeynote
inspiration!
takes no!
vacation
#GetsmART: Lessons from the Artists BLC15 Minikeynote
make disciplines!
dance together
think bigger…!
…and differently
do the unexpected
see the angel in the marble!
!
make your work public
ancora imparo!
“live to learn” !
#GetsmART: Lessons from the Artists BLC15 Minikeynote
bricolage is best…!
…be resourceful !
find beauty in the broken!
#GetsmART: Lessons from the Artists BLC15 Minikeynote
find a homebase!
make work easily sharable
#GetsmART: Lessons from the Artists BLC15 Minikeynote
cultivate !
a constellation of creatives
!
to know what you’re going to draw!
you have to begin drawing!
work backwards
Inspiration exists…!
but it has to find you working
change it up - !
don’t be one trick pony
make like Madonna
!
!
look to the past to look forward
“art washes away from the soul!
the dust of everyday life”
get in !
a creative habit
“It takes a long time!
to grow young”
stand for something!
GREATER PURPOSE:
use the platform !
you are given
!
painting is not done to !
decorate apartments…!
!
…it is an instrument of war
#GetsmART: Lessons from the Artists BLC15 Minikeynote
use technology for creation !
more than consumption
live in the “why not?”!
find your gift…!
…then give it away
#GetsmART: Lessons from the Artists BLC15 Minikeynote
!
seek serendipity!
flaunt the fails !
marvel at mistakes
“The idea is not to!
live forever, !
it is to create !
something that will.”
leave a legacy
curate cleverly!
be awed by the ordinary
You need to let the!
little things that would !
ordinarily bore you !
suddenly thrill you.
see things in new ways
tinker, try, and test!
make it a!
#GetsmART: Lessons from the Artists BLC15 Minikeynote
appropriate!
the great
the!
FACTORY
make your own movement
paint what you like!
and die happy
selfies!
who’s inspired you
to change something about
the way you teach?
#getsmART
#getsmART
@amyburvall
www.amyburvall.com

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