"Dr. Keith Sawyer, a well-known creativity researcher, spent more than 10 years visiting the top art and design schools in the United States. He interviewed the professional artists and designers who teach in their programs, with the goal of identifying both what needs to be learned and how it can be taught."
"When I first started interviewing art school professors, I was calling my project "learning how to be creative." But I was surprised that what they described as central to what they are doing is teaching students how to see. That was fascinating to me, both because I didn't know what it meant and because I was pretty sure that I didn't know how to see, either."
Creativity skills can be learned through deliberate practice, instruction, and sustained engagement. Learning emphasizes seeing, iterative exploration, and hands-on doing rather than following fixed steps. Teaching that develops a creative practice helps students understand the creative process, iterate repeatedly, and connect their personal vision with audiences. Constraints and structured challenges often produce stronger breakthroughs than unrestricted freedom. Studio-based critique, mentorship, and repeated making cultivate perceptual skills, problem framing, and emergent solutions. Training across art and design domains transfers core creative habits such as observation, experimentation, reflection, and audience awareness, enabling creators to develop reliable, teachable methods for innovation.
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