It was an amazing opportunity to share my love of social media, creativity, and community building…. It was a great experience to talk about the possibilities social networking offers to connect all these passions together!
I’ve been able to creatively connect with soooo many through social networking– the art-based collaborations & gathering together that can happen online is always so inspiring!
TEDx Rehearsal
TEDx Ursuline College
TEDx Ursuline College
How do you use social media to cultivate creativity, connection, and community?
Check out all the TEDx Ursuline College talkshere.
The Random Acts of Art Adventure has finished 5 more of its final stops here in the US over the last couple of months! Yes! The participants of this adventure’s tail end have patiently waited (with much excitement!) as this project has traveled around the globe for over 3 years- 🙂
Check out these captures (thank you!) as sent to me by Suzie, Lisa, Laura, Joni & Dawn:
The pouch o’ creative goodness visits with Suzie in Sacramento on its tour throughout California!
Greetings from San Jose!
The pouch arrives to Lisa! With the materials that were gifted to her, Lisa created small pieces of art to randomly leave for others to find!
The Random Acts of Art Adventure’s stash received by Laura on its last California stop in Sunnyvale
Stop #55 includes a creative visit to Grand Junction, Colorado with Joni!
Dawn in Midwest City, Oklahoma welcomes the adventure to her creative space!
As a re-cap on what this awesome canvas pouch has experienced and the creative goodness it and all the participants have spread, so far there’s been #56 destinations over thousands and thousands of miles. This project started in 2012 @ 6 Degrees of Creativity Headquarters in the US and another 30+ US stops, then traveled to Canada, the UK, Italy, Singapore, India, Australia, New Zealand, and came back to the US this year for another 15 stops!
Over this time, participants have filled up the pouch over and over again with different art materials and artsy stuff for the next person on the travel route to receive and create art with for others as a gift of kindness, gratitude, and generosity. Watching this creative chain and connection has been amazing!
Very good news to share about The Random Acts of Art Adventure after an almost 3 month hiatus in Washington: the project is alive and well again in California, finally making it to Paulette in Woodside– Yay! I was soooo relieved and excited to see the photo below kindly sent by Paulette (thank you!) of the canvas pouch & creative passport, which arrived a couple of days ago from Olympia:
Stop #49: Woodside, California with Paulette
Wow! What a long journey of creative goodness it has been, which is now going into its third year. A dozen destinations remain and I can’t wait to see the adventure keep moving again to new creative spaces throughout California, in Colorado, Oklahoma, Texas, North Carolina, and back to Ohio.
I continue to learn and discover so much as a result of this process, its participants, and each stop the pouch visits, which includes revisiting lessons in patience, faith, trust, gratitude, and the power of community & creativity. I am so thrilled that the adventure is continuing onward and eagerly look forward to keep sharing its remaining activity and travel updates with you this year. 🙂
If you need to catch up on the past travels of the project, check out past travel updates here.
Since the last travel update of the Random Acts of Art Adventure, the canvas pouch has arrived to two more countries!
The project spent the final month of 2014 in Singapore with Karen before heading to Shana in Australia:
Lots of creative goodness received from Tia and her students in India (!):
Stop 40: Bukit Batok, Singapore with Karen
The pouch then traveled over 3,000 miles to spend time with Shana in Sunrise Beach, Queensland, Australia…
Shana used the creative goodness she received from Karen to create an artful gift of kindness for a friend:
As 2015 gets underway, the Random Acts of Art Adventure now has only 20 stops left!
The pouch will continue its tour throughout Australia and is currently on its way to Putney, New South Wales:
In 2014, the Random Acts of Art Adventure traveled to 6 different countries, in addition to many US Midwest & Eastern, & Southern states. Check out some of the past travel updates from 2014 here:
It’s been over 2 years since participants originally signed up for this project and this journey has definitely included lots of patience, creativity, kindness, and delightful surprise so far….. I can’t wait to see what the next 20 stops have to offer! 🙂
Happy 2015!
******
About the project**: A 8 x 6 inch canvas pouch filled with various artsy stuff, is mailed amound participants to make some creative goodness with…then the created art is given away in a random act of art to someone else! The pouch gets filled back up with more creative stuff & then mailed again to the next participant to continue the creative cycle! You can follow the project’s adventure and see all the photos via the 6 Degrees of Creativity Facebook Page.
The Random Acts of Art Adventure travels 4000+ miles to the UK!
Just a few weeks ago, the Random Acts of Art Adventure left the US in Florida to begin its creative tour (stops 34-36) in the UK with Janette, Louise, and Bernadette:
The creative goodness stash that arrived to Janette on the Isle of Wight
Janette’s lovely addition to the pouch’s Creative Passport
Janette created this series of Random Acts of Art using supplies she received in the pouch, along with her own materials. These 6 altered bingo cards (picture above: front, picture below: back) will be abandoned by Janette over the next couple of months for people to discover and enjoy. 🙂After its stop on the Ilse of Wight, the pouch traveled to Louise in Highbridge, Somerset:
Creative Greetings from Louise in Highbridge, Somerset!
Snapshots from Louise of her Creative Passport page & Random Acts of Art Treasure!
Louise created a bookmark and card for Bernadette with some of creative offerings she received in the pouch before mailing it on to her in Burwell, Cambridgeshire.
Stop #36 is a creative visit with Bernadette in Cambridgeshire, UK
What a wonderful tour of creative goodness our pouch has experienced in the UK- Thank you Janette, Louise, and Bernadette!
The Random Acts of Art Adventure heads to Italy next…. 26 more stops and 5 countries left to go…. Stay tuned!
Catch up on all the travel updates from this adventure here.
About the project**: A 8 x 6 inch canvas pouch filled with various artsy stuff, is mailed amound participants to make some creative goodness with…then the created art is given away in a random act of art to someone else! The pouch gets filled back up with more creative stuff & then mailed again to the next participant to continue the creative cycle! This project has 40+ more stops over the next 12 months (more or less!) to destinations in the US, Canada, Italy, the UK, India, Singapore, New Zealand, and Australia.
The Random Acts of Art Adventure continues to travel along, with 5 new stops and making it past the mid-way point on its tour of creativity, generosity, and kindness!
In the past 30 days, the canvas pouch of creative goodness has visited Tennessee, North Carolina, Mississippi, and Florida:
Creative Greetings from Tennessee
Art is Close to My Heart: Janie’s contribution to the Creative Passport Book
Packed up and ready for travel to Raleigh, North Carolina!
Hello from North Carolina!
The pouch’s visit with Eva in Raleigh was stop #30— a big halfway milestone for this canvas pouch…. From this point: 31 more stops, 6 more countries, and 10 more US states to go!
Eva’s addition to the Creative Passport Book
Ready to travel to Mississippi!
Greetings from Mississippi and Sr. Alies!
Sock monkeys in Sr. Alies’ creative space enjoy the creative goodness!
After visiting Sr. Alies’ studio in Mississippi, the pouch traveled to Tracy & then to Jackie in Florida:
Hello from Tracy in Fernandina Beach, Florida!
Tracy’s art inspired by the pouch!
Creative Goodness arrives to Jackie in Fort Walton Beach, Florida!
Thanks to Janie, Eva, Sr. Alies, Tracy, and Jackie for their creative contributions on this part of the tour. 🙂
The Random Acts of Art Adventure will be heading to the UK next! Yay!
About the project**: A 8 x 6 inch canvas pouch filled with various artsy stuff, is mailed amound participants to make some creative goodness with…then the created art is given away in a random act of art to someone else! The pouch gets filled back up with more creative stuff & then mailed again to the next participant to continue the creative cycle! This project has 40+ more stops over the next 12 months (more or less!) to destinations in the US, Canada, Italy, the UK, India, Singapore, New Zealand, and Australia.
It’s been very active past month for the 6 Degrees of Creativity Random Acts of Art Adventure! During the month of May, the project had 4 stops across three different states: Indiana, Maryland, and Virginia:
Stop #25 with Julie in Indiana:
Creative Goodness with Julie in Georgetown, Indiana
Julie was excited to receive many vintage items in her stash of creative goodness from Heather in Illinois and made art that would be given away as door prizes at the next Corn Island Steampunk Society!
Stop #26 with Suzanne in Maryland:
Creative goodness with Suzanne in Dunkirk, Maryland
Suzanne is creating little books for the Tandem Typewriter II Tour for the little libraries that they are creating across country and hopefully some creative goodness from this stash can be used for this project!
Suzanne’s Creative Passport Page
The adventure continued onward to Paula for another stop in Maryland:
Creative Goodness with Paula in Gaithersburg, Maryland
Paula’s Creative Passport Page
Paula’s Creative Passport page is dedicate to Giusto Constantino, her paternal Great-grandfather. Paula shares, “That is him sitting on the stoop of his home in NYC. He was Sicilian and when ever anything went wrong and someone complained about it he reminded you that, “These are the things that happen to the living.” In Sicilian it is, “Queste cose succedono ai vivi.” …and my feeling is that ART is for the living.”
Stop #28 with Debbie in Virginia:
Creative Goodness with Debbie in Mavisdale, Virginia
Debbie’s Creative Passport Page
This past month also saw the safe return of the pouch’s Creative Passport (thank you Julie!). As reported in my last travel update, the Passport Book was full from the previous 24 stops. The Creative Passport was returned to 6 Degrees of Creativity Headquarters and a new book was mailed to Indiana to artfully document the remainder of the adventure!
Check out this short video of the Creative Passport and the pages created from July 2013-April 2014 throughout the US and Canada:
Next on the pouch’s travel agenda is to head south in the US! Yay!
About the project**: A 8 x 6 inch canvas pouch filled with various artsy stuff, is mailed amound participants to make some creative goodness with…then the created art is given away in a random act of art to someone else! The pouch gets filled back up with more creative stuff & then mailed again to the next participant to continue the creative cycle! This project has 40+ more stops over the next 12 months (more or less!) to destinations in the US, Canada, Italy, the UK, India, Singapore, New Zealand, and Australia.
Sara also sent a pic of her page that she created inside the pouch’s Creative Passport:
Sara’s Page inside the Creative Passport
Sara let me know that there were only a couple of pages left inside the Creative Passport to sign in or create on, so it was time to create Creative Passport Book #2!
This week I hand stitched another small book to meet up with the pouch’s next stop (#25!) with Julie in Indiana:
Creative Passport #2 in Route to Indiana!
Julie will kindly swap out the Creative Passports (thank you!) so there is a new one with 60+ pages ready to document the rest of its artsy travels in the US, Europe, India, Asia, Australia, and New Zealand throughout this year and in 2015! There’s lots and lots of adventures left…. 🙂
The first Creative Passport book is returning back to 6 Degrees of Creativity Headquarters here in Ohio and I look forward to sharing it with you in a future update!
Behave in benevolent and artful ways
Over at the 6 Degrees of Creativity workshop site, the last 2 months have introduced a variety of art-based concepts, inspiration, and art-making experiences to explore using art for creative goodness in our own lives and for others.
And…Artist Challenge Coins (ACCs) for our first Mail Art Collab & Challenge have been arriving for this month’s swap:
Artist Challenge Coins from MN, MS, & TN
Look for another post on this soon!
There’s still time to join in on this year’s 6 Degrees of Creativity workshops if you are interested in participating. Learn more here! Registration is open until July 31 and the workshops are available to enjoy until December 31, 2014.
Here’s to much, much more creative goodness ahead!
As a long winter in the US and Canada has started to slowly give way to the arrival of spring (more or less!), the 6 Degrees of Creativity Random Acts of Art Adventure continues to travel onward.
The pouch’s most recent stops (#22 and #23) have reached Wisconsin and Illinois:
From Nancy in Waukesha, Wisconsin
Nancy in Waukesha, Wisconsin received these creative goodies from its previous stop in Minnesota with Thresa. Nancy shared, “I wonder where all of the materials came from…. I thought it was so interesting to use items that could have come from so many places, to come together and make something new.”
The pouch then left the creative hands of Nancy to travel to Heather at Suncrest Studios in Bolingbrook, Illinois:
From Heather in Bolingbrook, Illinois
creative goodness delivered from Wisconsin
Below is Heather’s page in progress from the Pouch’s Passport Book that also travels with the pouch:
Passport book traveling with the pouch
It’s so fun to keep watching this adventure unfold at different locations and in the wonderful hands of each participant! Thank you to Nancy and Heather for your photos and being part of this creative journey! 🙂
*****
About the project**: A 8 x 6 inch canvas pouch filled with various artsy stuff, is mailed amound participants to make some creative goodness with…then the created art is given away in a random act of art to someone else! The pouch gets filled back up with more creative stuff & then mailed again to the next participant to continue the creative cycle! This project has 40+ more stops over the next 12 months (more or less!) to destinations in the US, Canada, Italy, the UK, India, Singapore, New Zealand, and Australia.
During this past month, the Random Acts of Art Adventure returned back to the US after an artful tour in Canada.
Below is some of the art created by Rosann in Edmonton, Alberta inspired by what she received with her delivery. Rosann created a little journal out of a paperback book that was in the pouch and used more creative goodness from the pouch on each of the pages! Awesome idea!
Rosann’s book inspired by pouch!
You can read more about Rosann’s book and adventure with this project in her artStory post, The Pouch Stopped Here!
The pouch is now safely back in the US, starting its Midwest Tour with Stop #17 & Thresa in Minneapolis, Minnesota:
The Pouch Visits Thresa in Minnesota
This week the pouch was in route to Nancy in Wisconsin and will be heading to Illinois next! The acts of adventure continues! Yay! Another update to follow soon or check out the pouch’s creative trail on Facebook. Thank you to Rosann and Thresa for contributing to this month’s photos and travel update!
*****
About the project**: A 8 x 6 inch canvas pouch filled with various artsy stuff, is mailed amound participants to make some creative goodness with…then the created art is given away in a random act of art to someone else! The pouch gets filled back up with more creative stuff & then mailed again to the next participant to continue the creative cycle! This project has 40+ more stops over the next 12 months (more or less!) to destinations in the US, Canada, Italy, the UK, India, Singapore, New Zealand, and Australia.
** Signing up for this project is now closed.
Even though the Random Acts of Art Project is now closed, if you’re interested in projects instilling hope, gratitude, kindness, and giving back to others through engaging in art-making, check out the Creative Deed Project that just opened as part of this year’s 6 Degrees of Creativity workshops. This workshop will feature a monthly creative deed challenge for participants to initiate and pay forward using their creativity!
This month’s Creative Deed is dedicated to creating Tokens of Kindness using Altered Dominoes!
TEDx Rehearsal 
TEDx Ursuline College 
TEDx Ursuline College 
6 Degrees of Creativity 