1420 - Process and Presence: Exploring Tillinghast Through the Five Senses

Course Description

Using mindfulness practices within the rich landscape of RISD’s Tillinghast Place, students will explore a different sense or medium each week (sight, sound, video, touch, smell, or taste) to help sharpen observation skills and generate artworks or inspirational seeds for future work. Appropriate for artists practicing in any medium at any skill level, you will be encouraged to explore new media/areas beyond your usual expertise. While the course is designed with practicing artists in mind, those who don’t identify as artists or creatives or have been feeling creatively stuck are especially encouraged to enroll. Our goal is to utilize mindfulness to feel more connected to our environment and engaged in the present to facilitate process-oriented creative exploration.

Students will leave with multiple artworks or sketches in various media, fresh ideas for new work, practices and activities to enhance observation skills, resources for courting creativity in everyday life, and an enhanced sense of creative wellbeing.

NOTE: Classes will be held rain or shine. Please come dressed for the weather with footwear and apparel appropriate for being outside for some amount of class time. While a substantial portion of class time will be dedicated to exploring the grounds and making work or gathering inspiration, students will still have access to the indoor facility at any point during class time.

Applies Towards the Following Certificates

• Animation Certificate : Electives
• Graphic Design Certificate : Electives
• Interactive Design Certificate : Electives
• Natural Science Illustration Certificate : Electives
• Painting Studies Certificate : Electives
• Photography Certificate : Electives