Teaching for Creativity in Science
In my first year of teaching high school biology, 1966, I found a large pile of scientific magazines in my prep room. I hired work-study students to examine,...
The Notion of Creativity
The Notion of Creativity In my work as a university professor, questions about where ideas come from were central to everything I did in research and teaching. Now a...
Postscript on wild huckleberry ice cream
Two scoops of wild huckleberry ice cream from the 2009 crop, garnished with a sprig of 2010 huckleberries. Photo by Lee Gass. They say too many cooks spoil ...
The deep meaning of creativity
Some number of nestling, almost fledgling robins. The exact number is below. The Deep Meaning of Creativity This year, for the first time since my studio ...
What is Creativity?
Detail of bronze Eternal Flame with colour scheme inverted. What is creativity? What makes the difference between creative people and the rest of...
Creativity: The Case of Emmett Schanfarber
Creativity: The Case of Emmett Schanfarber I suggested in What is Creativity? that human beings are born creative, then either stay creative or grow less so throug...
Methods of Creation
In Love and Soaring, lighted by laser. Photo by Lee Gass. Methods of Creation? In responding to my story about making sculpture, Thoughts on the Creative Pro...
The Case of Michael Ondaatje
Creativity: The Case of Michael Ondaatje All my life I've wondered where ideas come from. The rich literature on creativity gives no hint of how to make id...
The Case of Gerhard Herzberg
The only way to make new ideas happen, I think, the only method of creation, is to go into our studios and make stuff, as I argued in Methods of Creation? Just do it...
The Case of John Steinbeck
I claim in several stories that there's no such thing as methods of creation in arts or sciences. At the same time, I show how artists and scientists keep ...
Looking Up
Looking Up Photos by Lee Gass This piece of granite leaned against my studio wall for a couple of years, up high where I could see it in all weather and al...
What is it going to be?
Vinay watched me work for a while the other day in my studio. I knew he was coming, but I didn’t notice him coming in. I didn’t notice anything, really, but...
Creativity: The Case of Liz Lerman
I recently attended three events associated with the biennial Dance in Vancouver Conference, sponsored by the Scotiabank Dance Centre. Coming into art from a life...
Creativity: The Case of Gerald Gass
My brother Gerald is 10 years younger than I and he always has been. His parents were 10 years older than mine, of course, and that made a big difference. Mine wer...
Creative natives in Clayoquot Sound
Gisele Martin, owner of Tla-ook Cultural Adventures in Tofino, leading a nature walk at Tofino Botanical Gardens. Photo by Lee Gass. Creativity is an indivi...
More Thoughts on Creativity
Wild huckleberries on a bush outside my studio. In a story about a nest of robins in my outdoor sculpting studio, The Deep Meaning of Creativity, I sugges...