Being a creative person, sometimes you do feel like you live in your own world and that nobody else understands the creative process. I really enjoyed meeting other creative people in Make Bad Art and hearing them talk about their creative lives.
The course also gave me different ideas on how to make time to be creative, and how to respect my creativity—all those things that are usually not encouraged.
I see now that my art is definitely worth the time, and that’s powerful. The other day, I had this big project, so I got started by making several small steps. Thanks to Make Bad Art, I feel like I have a better idea of how I want this project to go by doing the small steps and using the other tools from the course.
Nancy taught me to incorporate those tools, and encouraged me to go ahead and be creative. Because when I’m creative, I’m in a happy space and that helps me deal with everything else.
I would tell others who are considering Make Bad Art to be open to the possibilities. Don’t limit yourself, Just show up and be willing to participate. There aren’t any big, hard things to do in this class—they’re smaller activities, and there’s a lot of encouragement from other people in the group.
— Emily, founding participant in Make Bad Art