New Year, New You 2021: Creativity & Inspiration | Franklin Park Library District

1) Craftfulness: mend yourself by making things

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"Integrating mindfulness, neuroscience, positive psychology, and creativity research, Craftfulness offers a thought-provoking and surprising reconsideration of craft, and how making things with your hands can reconnect us to ourselves"--

2) The power of daily practice: how creative and performing artists (and everyone else) can finally meet their goals

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Maisel, Eric

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"In The Power of Daily Practice, a creativity coach discusses the value of mindful daily practice as a method of self-improvement in all facets of life, with examples drawn from art, music, literature, athletics, political activism, and business. Each chapter includes case studies and questions for reflection"--

3) Life in the studio

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Palmer, Frances

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"To step into potter Frances Palmer's world is to be surrounded by the trappings of a life that has been intentionally-and painstakingly-built to maximize creativity. A light-filled, airy studio in which to make her pottery, with a corner always at the ready for her daily photo shoots. Cutting gardens overflowing with flowers to be snipped as inspiration strikes. Shelves of cookbooks to peruse as she plans the menu of her next dinner party, and museum...

4) It's about damn time: how to turn being underestimated into your greatest advantage

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Hamilton, Arlan

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"From a black, gay woman who broke into the boys' club of Silicon Valley comes an empowering guide to finding your voice, working your way into any room you want to be in, and achieving your own dreams. In 2015, Arlan Hamilton was on food stamps and sleeping on the floor of the San Francisco airport, with nothing but an old laptop and a dream of breaking into the venture capital business. She couldn't understand why people starting companies all looked...

5) My shouting, shattered, whispering voice: a guide to writing poetry & speaking your truth

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Vecchione, Patrice

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"Ever had an emotion or experience you wanted to express, but didn't know how? This guide encourages teens to find their voices, step up and speak their truths, and articulate what matters to them most--both personally and politically--whether it be boldly to an outside audience or just privately for themselves. Young adults are reading and writing and performing poetry more than ever before, and yet it's the most difficult form for schools to teach....

6) Sweat the technique: revelations on creativity from the lyrical genius

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Rakim

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On the heels of Kendrick Lamar’s Pulitzer Prize, as the world begins to recognize the creative side of Hip-Hop, comes a writing guide from a musician and "The greatest MC of all time," Rakim. The musician and Hip Hop legend—hailed as “the greatest MC of all time” and compared to Thelonious Monk—reimagines the writing handbook in this memoir and guide that incorporates the soulful genius, confidence, and creativity of a master artist. When...

7) This is what I know about art

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Drew, Kimberly

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"In this powerful and hopeful account, arts writer, curator, and activist Kimberly Drew reminds us that the art world has space not just for the elite, but for everyone"-- An arts writer, curator, and activist, Drew shows us that art and protest are inextricably linked. Drawing on her personal experience through art toward activism, she challenges us to create space for the change that we want to see in the world. -- adapted from jacket flap