Creative path

Overview

🎨📔💻 Your Creative Path Module is a guided program designed to help you create two key items: a physical creative journal and a digital portfolio. Throughout this module, you will explore your own creative process and work on the perception you have of your work and you as an artist, gaining tools and support for artistic journey.

✍️📓🌟 Your Creative Journal can be any blank notebook you choose to document your progress during the MentArt Course. You may use Creative Path’s Prompts as a foundation, but ideally, you’ll also integrate content from other modules to develop and identify your unique artistic voice.

🆔🖼️🎯 Your Digital Portfolio (covered in section 6) will serve as your Artist`s ID—a functional tool to help you apply for competitions, grants, and other opportunities that you might want to apply to. It can also act as a snapshot of your artistic journey, providing an authentic and meaningful representation of where you are today, in alignment with your creative purpose.

👉 The module is divided in 6 sections and each one includes several lessons with self evaluations, practical exercises and theoretical information. It is a Hands-On Module meant to be functional to you, so make it yours! You are invited to walk the path in a linear manner, enrich it with content of other modules or skip and adapt the exercises according to your needs or wants. We hope you enjoy it!

Sections

7 Sections
8 Lessons
Lifetime

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Initial evaluation
1
- 1.1
  Initial evaluation
The past
i. What is a Journal?
ii. What is an Artist’s Book? (These two lessons may be merged into one)
iii. Letter to your Creative Self Exercises
iv. Write your Decalogue
v. Inaugurate your journal: Create a Collage from your Decalogue and Letter (from section 1)
vi. Final Evaluation
1
- 2.1
  Your creative Journal
  18 Minutes
Travelling into the past
i. Introduction
ii. Who is my inner creative? Reflective questions
ii. A Deck of Personal Material
iii. The Philosophy of Artistic Expression and Art
1
- 3.1
  Travelling into the past
  31 Minutes
In the now
i. Activate the Observer
ii. What is My Value? Work and Movement!
iii.Optional Manifesto
iv. Creative Block
2
- 4.1
  Into the now
  22 Minutes
- 4.2
  Into the now – creative block
  12 Minutes
The future
i. Exposure
ii. Create Your Visual Board
iii. A Letter to Your Future Self and Accountability
iv. Final Evaluation
1
- 5.1
  Into the future
  17 Minutes
Creating your portfolio
i. Defining Your Digital Portfolio’s Purpose and Audience
ii. Types of Portfolios & Editing Your Work
iii. Formatting & Sharing Your Portfolio
iv. Final Thoughts: Turn Excuses Into Action 
1
- 6.1
  Building a digital portfolio
  19 Minutes
Final evaluation
1
- 7.1
  Final evaluation

Speakers

Otvoreni Studio Keramike

We are Ivana Castellano and Milenka Zivkovic, two Argentinians that met in Croatia and built a friendship based on love for Arts and Crafts.

We cocreated a seasonal Fair (O'Fair) to give visibility and space to local and international makers, we created a set of innovative and creative workshops to fight Artist's block and have fun (Do, Undo, and DO), and we continue, as in this module, to support and complement each other to keep expanding in what we love doing, that is, basically, creating.

Also, last Tuesday of each month, we have our mastermind to help us ground our expansive creativity into doable steps.

Milenka Zivkovic

Hi, I’m Milenka Zivkovic—a ceramic artist, a creative workshop facilitator, currently building my own pottery brand and ceramic studio and a founding member of the NGO Otvoreni Studio Keramike.

Ivana Castellano

Hi, I’m Ivana Castellano—an Argentinian illustrator and print designer based in Zagreb, Croatia. I work independently as an illustrator and graphic designer, collaborating with agencies, organizations, and the fashion industry. My projects range from commercial graphic design, including animations and illustrations, to more artistic collaborations where I can express emotions and bring sensibility to life through colorful, positive, and expressive designs.