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How to Deal with Your Harshest Critics – DP Mavia

by • February 6, 2018

I have just published a book and the excitement of having it distributed is great. This has been a long awaited process finally bearing fruit and lending itself to public...

Four Things that Hinder Your Art – DP Mavia

by • February 6, 2018

Art is thinking and production. Art is theory and practice. Sometimes there are seasons of production of art, where we get stuck to produce or even to conceptualize art. I have...

Value as a Support System for Discipline in Art and Creativity – DP Mavia

by • August 22, 2016

I the other day I wrote a short article titled Discipline as A support System for Art and Creativity. A full reading can be found when you click on the link. In the article I...

Two Hours a Writer – DP Mavia

by • August 22, 2016

I have been glaring at the white space and tapping my keyboard without writing a word for the last two months. I had this incredible idea that this year my writing would be hard...

How to Find Your Art – DP Mavia

by • June 20, 2016

I had just finished teaching a fifteen-week class that centered largely on artistic process. Every Monday morning we gathered to learn or unlearn something. From fashion...

Beauty and Meaning in Creative Work – DP Mavia

by • June 23, 2015

The work of visionaries and the work of innovators is beautiful stuff. Not even going into individuals like Cezanne, Monet, Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Picasso innovators in modern...