Creativity Fellows

Creativity Fellows Overview

Do you believe you can’t draw? Or that you are not creative? Or maybe you do feel creative and want to find outlets for it both in your personal life and within the classroom? What if you were given the space to play, the time to reflect, and a cohort of colleagues to support and encourage you? What if you could engage in activities where your very presence was the purpose, allowing you to explore distractions and see what they reveal, instead of always striving for immediate objectives?

The CTE is excited to present the Creativity Fellows, one of the University's most successfully initiatives in teaching, learning practice, and research. This unique program offers participants the opportunity to explore and develop their own visual language through creative exercise and apply those insights to their research and teaching.

Creativity Fellows Purpose and Process

The Creativity Fellows will explore the potential of slowing down, using our hands, bodies and imaginations as antidotes to these pressing concerns on individual and communal levels.

Creativity Fellows will participate in monthly activities that foster imaginative thinking and creativity. These activities, which include experimentation, play, discussion, reflective doodling, and drawing, are designed to deepen personal understanding of the creative self, and cultivate new ways of expressing and communicating with research and teaching.

Creativity Fellows Principles

Faculty need to engage in an active creative practice to be able to encourage creativity in students and to model creative thinking and activity
The fellows emphasize unlearning stereotypes and biases associated with arts and creativity
The fellows help to dismantle the biases and stereotypes by directly engaging faculty with creative practices, encouraging them to reconnect with their inherent creativity, past creativity, and its future relationship with their career and teaching
The fellows reacquaint faculty with new learner experiences, especially the fear of failure among peers
The fellows’ model creative practices for students, helping students to create a new language of expression through visual mark-making.

Application Process

The call for Creativity Fellows will be disseminated by email. For more information contact the CTE.