Courses Workshops — Kristy Caldwell

Imagination-focused courses and workshops

1. Course calendar / 2. Sample warm-up exercise / 3. Sample ideation exercise

Active Imagination: Ideation Process for Creatives

Minneapolis College of Art and Design Continuing Education (MCAD), Spring 2022/Fall 2023
Developed and led a remote, five-week course that introduces creative ideation methods grounded in imagination, memory, and dream. The heart of the approach is a visualization exercise the group practices together during class meetings. In the final week students are encouraged to take steps to develop new work in the creative discipline of their choice.

“Your class was like being in Inception.”—Molly Snee

1. First workshop session in a private event space donated by Sai Organics in Astoria, Queens / 2. Second session: hybrid-format show-and-tell / 3. Sketched “artifact” by Rumi Hara

Active Imagination for Visual Storytellers

City Artists Corps grant, 2021
This grant-funded mini-workshop focused on using dream content to develop a catalogue of personally meaningful creative material for use in personal and professional work.