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Subverting Perfectionism Using Ugly Art

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Lore Alexander

Creativity Coach and Freelance Editor at Scribe and Sunshine.

Tacoma, WA, USA

I’m a freelance copyeditor and creativity coach living in the Pacific Northwest. I help perfectionists to just do the damn thing—the “damn thing” being to let go of the illusion of perfection and make your art!

About this FieldTrip

In this workshop, we’ll get close and personal with the mental barriers our perfectionism and inner critics have built by making intentionally ugly art.

We’ll explore perfectionism’s origins, who you want to be today, and how making intentionally ugly art can help you bridge the gap between the two by practicing joyful imperfection and teaching our bodies that it’s safe to be messy.

My goal is for you to leave this workshop with a better understanding of your own creative fear and a new, fun tool to help you bring more joy, play, and freedom into your art practice.


Agenda

  • Introduction: I’ll introduce myself and share why I started making intentionally ugly art.

  • Reflect on Creative Fear: We’ll take a look into some origins of our perfectionism—it doesn’t come out of nowhere! This will include roughly 5-10 minutes of reflection, journaling, and optional sharing. 

  • Meditate: We’ll take a moment to get into our bodies with a brief mindfulness meditation, and invite in joy and playfulness before the next phase of our time together.

  • Create: We’ll make some ugly art with your own preferred medium (paint, collage, markers, crayons, words, etc.), challenging ourselves to get weirder, sillier, uglier than ever! 

  • Share: Sharing your ugly art is voluntary, but I highly encourage it to give your nervous system that confirmation that you will not, in fact, get mauled by a bear if you make and share something bad.

  • Expand: Finally, I’ll provide some ideas for how this tool can be used depending on your own flavor of creative fear and where you find yourself getting stuck.


What to know or bring

  • Bring paper and a writing utensil for journaling

  • Art materials of choice (markers, paint, watercolors, collage materials etc.)


What to expect

Workshop format!

A hands-on session where participants get to build, craft, or create something tangible.

Optional afterparty!

Bring your extrovert self if you want to meet new people and chat after.

It will be recorded!

The recording will be shared within 24 hours in the follow up email for a 4-day window, and available at the top of this page. Make sure to register for access!

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Your Host

Lore Alexander

Creativity Coach and Freelance Editor at Scribe and Sunshine.

Tacoma, WA, USA

About Lore Alexander

I’m a freelance copyeditor and creativity coach living in the Pacific Northwest. I help perfectionists to just do the damn thing—the “damn thing” being to let go of the illusion of perfection and make your art!


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The FieldTrips experience is defined not only by what the host has to share, but also by how we show up individually and collectively. The way we show up impacts our capacity to be moved, inspired, and activated.

Show up fully

Get ready to be immersed! Engage with smiles, nods, waves, emojis. Share in the chat. Get cozy. Turn off notifications. Sip your favorite beverage.

Stay curious

Wear your beginner’s hat. Go with the flow. Welcome the stumbles and fumbles. Congratulate yourself for trying. Keep going! 

Celebrate your host

Our hosts are members of the CreativeMornings community—just like you! Everyone comes to this with different backgrounds—a lot of our hosts have never done anything like this before! And we love that! Cheer them on when something goes awry and when it goes perfectly.

Support each other

We’re all figuring things out in real time. Celebrate, rather than critique emerging ideas. Cheer each other on as you try new things.  Try “Yes! And…” in conversation.

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