Ellen Handler Spitz, honors college professor of visual arts, will be a featured speaker at an August 11 Erikson Institute Creativity Seminar at the Austin Riggs Center on the subject of “The Brightening Glance: Creativity and Childhood.”
“The brightening glance” is a phrase taken from the title of a Spitz book in which she “returns us to the vibrant experience of childhood to explain how the imagination emerges and develops.” The seminar will explore questions such as: What is childhood creativity and what does it tell us about the creative process in general? Are the roots of adult creativity in childhood, and if so, how? What interferes with the creative process in children and what does that tell us about obstacles to creativity in our adult lives? What in our adult creative lives links us to childhood and in what ways?
Other speakers include Daisy Rockwell, a painter and writer; Kelly Smedvig, a musician, model and mother; and Ruslan Sprague, a dancer and choreographer.
More information about the seminar can be found here.
