Replay: Liza Donnelly shares Five Things She's Learned about Creativity
Check out the first five minutes of her recent class.
“Like me as a little girl, your drawings may pull you out of a place you wish you weren’t, and they will make others happy. And as you draw, you will begin to learn more about others and about yourself. That is the creative process.”
– Liza Donnelly, Five Things I’ve Learned about Creativity
Tuesday night’s class with
was something special. Liza is a writer and award-winning cartoonist with The New Yorker Magazine, where she has been drawing cartoons and writing about culture and politics for forty years. She has contributed to CBS News and CNN, creating political cartoons as well as live-drawing special cultural and political events. She also writes and draws for The New York Times, CNN Opinion pages and the Washington Post.Liza is also a screenwriter, working on her third feature and currently pitching a documentary. Her widely acclaimed TED talk, translated into 40 languages and viewed over 1.4 million times, and her role as a frequent speaker at SXSW, the United Nations, and The New Yorker Festival, as well as her work as a Cultural Envoy for the US State Department, solidify her status as a prominent advocate for freedom of speech, women's rights, and the power of cartoons worldwide.
In her two-hour session, Five Things She's Learned about Creativity, Liza focused on the tools and strategies she uses for drawing and writing, sharing her approaches to humor, generating ideas, communicating with others, and problem-solving. Amazingly, she also demonstrated how she thinks about the drawings she creates, illustrating in real time how she makes the most of her creative process.
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