The artist's date is a tool that Julia Cameron writes about in her popular book, The Artist's Way. Visiting 1001 Pots, North America's largest ceramic exhibition, was my artist's date last week. I have sadly neglected my artist's dates for some time now, but I am hereby committing to doing a weekly artist date regularly once again.
Here is what Julia Cameron has to say about them:
"An artist date is a block of time, perhaps two hours weekly, especially set aside and committed to nurturing your creative consciousness, your inner artist... a visit to a great junk shop, ...a long country walk, a solitary expedition to the beach for a sunrise or sunset.... Art is an image-using system. In order to create, we draw from our inner well... If we don't give some attention to upkeep, our well is apt to become depleted, stagnant, or blocked.... Filling the well involves the active pursuit of images to refresh our artistic reservoirs.... How do we fill the well? We feed it images. Art is an artist-brain pursuit. The artist brain is our image brain, home and haven to our best creative impulses.... The artist brain is the sensory brain: sight and sound, smell and taste, touch."
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