Unlocking Creative Permission
Melanie Rothchild
We buy into the myth that the world is divided between the talented and the untalented. The tendency to allow others to decide for us what counts as “good” art can stop us in our tracks. Yet flexing creative muscle is fundamentally what defines us as human beings. It’s possible that the most important skill we can cultivate for making art is not technical ability but developing comfort with making mistakes.
Rather than offering a step-by-step approach, self-taught artist Melanie Rothschild explains how an absence of formal training can actually be a great advantage in nurturing genuine creativity.
This class will be a peek into Melanie’s head and will include:
- an ethnographic video about the nature of mistakes
- a food adventure
- playing with familiar substances
It will not include:
- post-its
We buy into the myth that the world is divided between the talented and the untalented. The tendency to allow others to decide for us what counts as “good” art can stop us in our tracks. Yet flexing creative muscle is fundamentally what defines us as human beings. It’s possible that the most important skill we can cultivate for making art is not technical ability but developing comfort with making mistakes.
Rather than offering a step-by-step approach, self-taught artist Melanie Rothschild explains how an absence of formal training can actually be a great advantage in nurturing genuine creativity.
This class will be a peek into Melanie’s head and will include:
- an ethnographic video about the nature of mistakes
- a food adventure
- playing with familiar substances
It will not include:
- post-its
About Melanie
Melanie Rothschild is a self-taught artist who has made a living with her art for the last 25 years.
Her functional work (tables, boxes and picture frames) has been sold in American craft galleries, department stores and museum shops since the early 90’s throughout the United States and has been licensed to Target. Since a turn in direction to fine arts several years ago, her work has been exhibited in several group shows as well as a solo exhibit on La Cienega Blvd in Los Angeles.
She considers moxie, an irreverent nature, and respect for mistake making to be the tools of her trade.
Rothschild earned her master’s degree in the Study of Creativity at Buffalo State in 2011. She has a bachelor’s in Ethnic Arts with a concentration in Anthropology from UCLA.
She is from and lives in Los Angeles, is the mother of young adult twins and has been married to the same guy for more than 30 years.
View examples of Melanie's work at her website: http://melanierothschild.com/index.html
Her functional work (tables, boxes and picture frames) has been sold in American craft galleries, department stores and museum shops since the early 90’s throughout the United States and has been licensed to Target. Since a turn in direction to fine arts several years ago, her work has been exhibited in several group shows as well as a solo exhibit on La Cienega Blvd in Los Angeles.
She considers moxie, an irreverent nature, and respect for mistake making to be the tools of her trade.
Rothschild earned her master’s degree in the Study of Creativity at Buffalo State in 2011. She has a bachelor’s in Ethnic Arts with a concentration in Anthropology from UCLA.
She is from and lives in Los Angeles, is the mother of young adult twins and has been married to the same guy for more than 30 years.
View examples of Melanie's work at her website: http://melanierothschild.com/index.html
