Date of Award
Spring 5-30-2017
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
Education
First Advisor
Paul Sproll
Second Advisor
Nancy Friese
Third Advisor
Ijlal Muzaffar
Abstract
The creative process of visual artists is not a well-understood methodology for intellectual inquiry. In particular, there are amorphous and individual aspects of it that defy narrow categorization. These aspects, like the gathering and associating labors, which vary from artist to artist, are nonetheless fundamental to our practices. The author investigates how the creative process has been defined and how the creative process is being used outside the traditional artistic context. Artists exist in a space where categories and definitions can be abandoned, where thought is advanced through the act of making, where worldviews can be imagined, where apparent contradictions manipulated, and where materials guide meaning. Arts based research provides an avenue for experimental, experiential, tangible thinking through the creative process. The creative method, derived from the creative process of artists, could one day join the ranks of the scientific method and other recognized methods for intellectual inquiry, leading to the question: can the arts be taught to expand thinking in all fields?
Recommended Citation
Appell McNabb, Charity, "The creative process : gathering for meaning" (2017). Masters Theses. 119.
https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/masterstheses/119
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