Bay Area Creativity - Artist's Way

This is a creativity-promoting Meetup centered around a book called "The Artist's Way". The book outlines a 12-week series of exercises to promote your creativity, of whatever flavor it might be, and to help you over whatever bumps you might be having with it. We add to the book by meeting in small groups to go through the sequence together, to congratulate each other on work accomplished, to commiserate on work not accomplished, to nudge each other a little from day to day, and to generally give support to whatever’s happening with your creative work.

The purpose of the Meetup as a whole is to organize these small groups. About one new group a month is created; group-creation happens whenever we have enough new people in a given area. So far most of the groups have been in Oakland/Berkeley, with a few in San Francisco, and one in the Peninsula. We do have some scattered interest out in Contra Costa and up in Marin; hoping to get quorums there still. Occasionally people join into existing groups. We are also talking about organizing some "graduate" groups, where people go on beyond the Artist's Way.

In this Artist's Way Meetup we have no professional facilitators and there is no charge at all for participating; our study groups are all purely self-organized and self-directed.

There were a few "fee" events or groups in the past (and probably be will be in the future) led by professional artists, but those were and will always be clearly identified as "paid" group events.

Please post your ideas & encouragements freely to the whole group; and in general your help with doing the organizing would be very welcome.

More details at http://artistsway.meetup.com/220/about.

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    "High everyone my names Jeremiah and I'm an artist currently living in vallejo, CA and I'd love to meet all of you."
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    Jane Glendinning
    "I'm a Bay Area native, love to read and write, and am involved with the California Writers Club, Women's National Book Association, and the SF Writers Conference and Writing for Change Conference."
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    debi
    "British artist living in San Francisco (creatingartmoods.com) working on a new gallery collection/ part time commissioned artist / illustrator. I am terrible a the business side of the art world so am trying to educate myself and refine my art skills"
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    sherry schaffer
    "Hi, I'm Sherry an artist. I paint and draw, I've taught, like singing, writing, discussion,heavenl. I've had a lot of blocks and stoppages. Like to meet more like minded people. The Artists Way sounds great. Sherry"
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San Francisco, CA 94130
Founded Aug 16, 2007
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