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    #rawthought: Quellancholy: The Creative Frenzy Begat by Melancholy
    Amy Burvall
    • Apr 1, 2016
    • 2 min

    #rawthought: Quellancholy: The Creative Frenzy Begat by Melancholy

    I have a love/hate relationship with the feeling of melancholy. It happens to me a lot…sometimes for inexplicable reasons. My mother had it too, and I always remember when she was sad and didn’t want to communicate with anyone she delved into some creative project- sewing… painting…or even building a tiki bar! Perhaps I inherited it, but the more overwhelmed I am by these “blue funks” I seem to want to create things. Most of my song lyrics for History for Music Lovers were wr
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    Tag! You’re It! : The Twists and Turns of Taglines
    Amy Burvall
    • Feb 25, 2016
    • 6 min

    Tag! You’re It! : The Twists and Turns of Taglines

    I often talk about, as an intro to my Creativity presentations, the fact that a lot of people who meet me for the first time ask, “Are you an artist?” At first I apologetically replied “no”, despite the fact they probably caught me in the act of sketching in public. (my new response is “aren’t we all?”). Another common one I get is, “you must be in the fashion industry”, perhaps because I am usually a tad overdressed or whimsically dressed and always in black. Identity in the
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    Learning from Artists Series 1: Da Vinci
    Amy Burvall
    • May 3, 2014
    • 5 min

    Learning from Artists Series 1: Da Vinci

    While brainstorming for an upcoming keynote on Creativity, I started thinking about the artists whose lives I have studied a bit (as a former World History teacher) and what we could learn from them – not particularly from their oeuvres, but from their creative process and the way they lived. At first I set out to make one comprehensive post, but then recoiled, thinking it would be too overwhelming. So, this will be a blog series of sorts, highlighting one artist per post. LE
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    Also....Advent (an Alternative Advent Calendar, 2020)
    Amy Burvall
    • Dec 28, 2020
    • 6 min

    Also....Advent (an Alternative Advent Calendar, 2020)

    This year I decided to once again use the digital Advent calendar creation site https://tuerchen.com/ However, I noticed that they don't...
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    The #globalthankswondercut project
    Amy Burvall
    • Nov 29, 2020
    • 1 min

    The #globalthankswondercut project

    If you were to write a love letter to the world what would it be? A Crowdsourced Creativity Project In the midst of this global pandemic...
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