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Author
Publisher
Arsenal Pulp Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A collaborative, multi-faceted book by two extraordinary Black artists about finding beauty in the chaos. Roger Mooking is well known as a celebrity chef and the host of such television shows as the Cooking Channel's Man Fire Food and Everyday Exotic; he is also a recording artist with five albums to his credit and a visual artist who creates immersive experiences that merge the visual, sonic, and culinary arts. francesca ekwuyasi is a writer and...
Author
Publisher
Minerva, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Just look at what you can build out of ordinary stuff when you follow your imagination! Children and their caretakers will love this beguiling child-led tour of a make-believe world constructed from everyday household and backyard objects. Words and pictures work together cleverly to spark eureka moments: that "ship" is really a table, that "dark cave" is really a laundry basket, and more, as a day full of building, playing, and pretending turns into...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Pintro is a robot who is practically perfect. He knows all there is to know about how to garden, how to bake, and especially everything about math. But the one thing Pintro does not know how to do? Make art! Whenever he tries, he just produces a perfect copy of the subject. While that's not a bad thing, he knows there's more to art than that. Can Pintro connect with his creativity and overcome his programming so he can finally paint the way he wants...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Awed by the endless possibilities, a young girl begins asking meaningful questions about creating art. Her questions are answered by a diverse group of artists throughout time and history: from the earliest cave painters to the most recent digital illustrators. Rethinking the familiar Western European timeline of art history, this book introduces readers to diverse works from every era and continent in a playful and inspiring way."--
Author
Series
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc
Pub. Date
[2024].
Language
English
Description
Finding Your Passion For Dummies offers you guidance and practical advice on how to identify and pursue your passion. With exercises to help you understand your values, interests, and natural talents, you can identify what you are passionate about -- at any age. This self-discovery process will help you find more happiness, and a sense of purpose and direction in life. When you find your passion, you'll be able to pursue it in a way that aligns with...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"For nearly thirty years, Pixar has dominated the world of animation, producing such beloved films as the Toy Story trilogy, Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Up, and WALL-E, which have gone on to set box-office records and garner eighteen Academy Awards. The joyous storytelling, the inventive plots, the emotional authenticity: In some ways, Pixar movies are an object lesson in what creativity really is. Here, Catmull reveals the ideals and techniques...
Author
Publisher
Free Spirit Publishing, an imprint of Teacher Created Materials, Inc
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Embarrassed about a hole in her pants, creative and resourceful Paula covers it with a patch, and discovers her classmates also have leaky, stained, and hand-me-down items that could benefit from a colorful patch.
Author
Series
Mighty Onion volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A light-hearted middle grade graphic novel about a young boy's journey to make his dream of creating a superhero comic book a reality"--
10) Draw me a star
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
English
Description
An artist's drawing of a star begins the creation of an entire universe around him as each successive pictured object requests that he draw more.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"From former editor-in-chief of New York magazine Adam Moss, a collection of illuminating conversations examining the very personal, rigorous, complex, and elusive work of making art. What is the work of art? In this guided tour inside the artist's head, Adam Moss traces the evolution of transcendent novels, paintings, jokes, movies, songs, and more. Weaving conversations with some of the most accomplished artists of our time together with the journal...
Author
Series
Publisher
Duke University Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"HOW TO GO MAD WITHOUT LOSING YOUR MIND questions long-standing Eurocentric accounts of psychopathology and describes the way art and madness connect in Black life. La Marr Jurelle Bruce uses a method of radical compassion, or radical care, to read the actions of Black artists and creatives. He seeks to understand their motives not simply as individual pathology but as sociocultural event and effect which makes itself evident as Black radical creativity....
13) Yo Puedo Crear
Author
Publisher
PowerKids Press/Rosen Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
Español
Description
"Getting creative is one way to deal with hard feelings, such as anger or sadness. Kids can get creative in many different ways, such as making art, music, and even dance routines. This helps kids use their energy in a positive way and express how they feel. This book introduces kids to new ideas for getting creative to find their calm. Early readers will benefit from simple, effective language and corresponding photographs as they learn an invaluable...
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Who is a provincial? In this subversive book, Sumana Roy assembles a striking cast of writers, artists, filmmakers, cricketers, tourist guides, English teachers, lovers and letter writers, private tutors and secret-keepers whose lives and work provide varied answers to that question. Combining memoir with the literary, sensory, and emotional history of an ignored people, she challenges the metropolitan’s dominance to reclaim the joyous dignity...
Author
Publisher
Sounds True
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Written in sync with the progression of the seasons, A Year in Practice is a program of holistic techniques and journaling prompts to nurture the creative seeker all year long. Four seasonally themed chapters keep you connected to natural phases of creative contraction and expansion, from the quiet hibernation of winter to the jubilant and expressive communing of summer. Used regularly, you will move through artistic blocks, deepen your capacity...
17) Living the artist's way: an intuitive path to greater creativity : a six-week artist's way program
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Essentials
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"The first new Artist's Way tool in more than 30 years from "the Queen of Change" (New York Times) author Julia Cameron. In the thirty years following the publication of The Artist's Way, Julia Cameron relied on an essential tool to help her through every juncture in life: writing for guidance. Now, in Living the Artist's Way, Cameron finally shares this method with the world as the fourth main Artist's Way tool. Over the course of six weeks, readers...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Description
"At an unprecedented rate, loneliness is moving around the globe—from self-isolating technology and political division to community decay and social fragmentation—and yet it is not a feeling to which we readily admit. It is stigmatized, freighted with shame and fear, and easy to dismiss as mere emotional neediness. But what if instead of shying away from loneliness, we embraced it as something we can learn from and as something that will draw...
Author
Publisher
One signal publishers / Atria Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"We are often urged to rely only on ourselves for strength, mental fortitude, and positivity. But with her distinctive "skill, wit, and sharp insight" (Laura Bates, author of Girl Up), Soraya Chemaly challenges us to adapt our thinking about how we survive in a world of sustained, overlapping crises. It is interdependence and nurturing relationships that truly sustain us, she argues. Based on comprehensive research and eye-opening examples from real-life,...
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