Seven Exercises to Energize Your Creative Life with Thomas Bosket and Rhonda Mann

Finding that art empowered us in our own lives and work, we became “creativity” and “art education” research junkies, acquiring a plethora of information regarding how creativity is fostered and grown. This wealth of information led us to create a system that guides students in developing their own creativity and we are dedicated to sharing it with as many people as possible. We have had overwhelmingly positive response from former students. We love watching how the workshop bolsters people in their work. Part of the system involves activities that are practical, clarifying the meta-cognition involved in the creative process. Some of the practices will ask you to self-reflect, taking responsibility for your own creative process and the elements that help or hinder your journey. Exploring historical and cultural concepts will allow you to benefit yourself and others through your work. Finally, the workshops solidify a step by step, joyfully led, overall picture of how to access flow (Czikszentmihalyi) and create in a fully engaged way. Creativity begets more creativity.

These two teachers revel in the heart-based works the students produce, and are excited every time they get to work in tandem to help students realize their creative potential. This workshop is appropriate for anyone interested in honing his or her creative life. Accomplished artists, deans of business schools and creatives at every level have soared through this experience and you can too!

Thomas Bosket and Rhonda Mann have been teaching together for over 20 years. Finding that art empowered them in their own lives and work, they became “creativity” and “art education” research junkies. They have assimilated a plethora of information regarding how creativity is fostered and grown. Having this wealth of information led them to create a system that guides students in developing their own creativity. Seeing how the system aids students, they are dedicated to sharing it with as many people as possible.

Thomas Bosket studied painting at Parsons The New School of Design and received his MFA
from Yale University. As an Assistant Professor and Coordinator of General Studio and
Graphic Design at Parsons The New School of Design, he developed the Color Theory and
Drawing curricula and received the honor of Distinguished Faculty Member of the Year.
Bosket is showing his paintings nationally at various galleries and arts organizations. He
specializes in raw materials, anatomy and color usage for artists and designers. In 2015 he published Form: Assumptions and Truths, a drawing book on the depiction of three dimensional form for artist and lovers of the arts.

Rhonda Mann has been an art educator of all ages. She has a Masters in Arts and Teaching from the University of New Hampshire.  She has worked in public and private schools, as well as in her own school, Oblio Studios. She creates in many media, but has recently focused on creating nature inspired abstract paintings based on emotional landscapes. Her work can be seen at many venues across the country with an emphasis on the galleries around her home in Maine.  She is the author of “What Potential: A Simple Guide to Cultivate Creativity for Parents and Children.”