IAH 241E: Creative Process w/ Kirk Domer

Summer 2024: Section 730 (5/13/2024 – 6/27/2024)

Creativity by Design: Exploring diverse artists and designers and their process. Why do we create?

This course explores the impact of artists and designers in the fields of art, dance, music, film, theatre, and writing. We will follow the creative process of “I’s”:

Inspiration, Incubation, Illumination, Interpretation

Below is a sampling of what will be covered in this course:

Inspiration.

Fearless CREATING; THE ART OF OBSERVING AND ABSTRACTING; POSTING SECRETS; Exploring SPARKS OF GENIUS.

We will explore why Twyla Tharp wants us to shut up, do what we love, and find the “SPARK.”

Incubation.

How to connect ART & FEAR? How to overcome your fears? HOW TO SAY YES FOR A YEAR? How TO own your own S***?

We will explore why Shondra Rhimes, an American Television Producer, Screenwriter, and Author tells us to say YES!

Illumination.

DEBATE; ABILITY & IDENTITY, ADVOCACY, ARTIST/FAN RELATIONSHIP, PARODY. ART VS. CRAFT, GRAFFITI VS. VANDALISM, LGBTQ+ IDENTITY, WHAT’S (DIS)ABILITY IN PERFORMANCE?

We will explore Arts Advocacy to cultivate, promote, sustain, and support the arts (and artists).

Interpretation.

WHY do we create? To entertain? To live fully? To be creative during COVID? To preserve culture? To celebrate hope? To offer new perspectives? To evoke sensibility and intimacy?

We will explore WHY?

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A few highlights of Kirk’s Teaching and Leadership

  • MSU Simmons Chivukula Award for Academic Leadership, 2023
  • Standing Ovation Award. Michigan Thespians: An Educational Theatre Association Affiliate, 2021
  • College of Arts & Letters Paul Varg Award, 2019
  • MSU Outstanding Supervisor Award, 2017
  • Excellence in Diversity Award – MSU Office for Inclusion and Intercultural Initiatives: Department of Theatre’s “60/50 Theatre Project” (Team Award), 2015
  • College of Arts & Letters Alumni Award for Innovation and Leadership in Teaching and Learning, 2011
  • College of Arts & Letters Faculty Leadership Award, 2010
  • MSU-AT&T Instructional Technology Awards Competition (Honorable Mention), 2009