ARTiculAction Art Review April 2015

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Jave Gakumei Yoshimoto

facilitate a session called “connecting with the creative process” at the Open Studio Project located in Chicago, Illinois. This process was originally developed by art therapists Dayna Block and Pat B. White and I still use this process quite often with people I work with. I’ll call it CCP for short.

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The idea with CCP is that feedback-regardless of positive or negative- can direct the artist’s creativity. Therefore it is a group art making session with no comments allowed. What’s fantastic is that it creates a safe space for the artist to make work, reflect on their experience to write out their thoughts, and in the end,


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