Gabriel (Gabby) Navalta

Hello!

Hi! My name is Gabby Navalta. I'm from Laupāhoehoe, Hawaiʻi, and my creative media journey started in high school. I majored in Digital Media Arts at Hawaiʻi Community College and now I'm a soon-to-be graduate at UH West Oʻahu with a B.A. in General Creative Media. I also work as a Student Assistant for the program and have held various extracurricular roles, including serving as President of the Associated Students of UH West Oʻahu 10th Senate. As a Filipino, first-generation college student, I hope to give back to the community through education and inspire others to realize their full potential. If I were an artist's tool, I would be a pencil. As one of the first tools a creative encounters, the pencil has many powers: from noting and writing, to sketching ideas that eventually comes to life, to erasing mistakes and starting over.

Research Topic: Creativity and Personality

Research Question: Does personality affect creativity?

Abstract

The research explores the links between personality traits and creativity, specifically focusing on the Five-Factor Model proposed by Robert McCrae and Paul Costa: openness to experience, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism. The paper examines how these personality traits can affect preferences for creative works and problem-solving techniques within the creative process. It also looks at the connections between personality facets and the cognitive processes of Selection and Divergence. Stereotypes based on the Five-Factor Model are discussed, and the paper explores ways to break these labels using creativity.

Capstone Project: Photo installation

Capstone Proposal

Project Title:

CREATIVE PROCESS:

The concept of creativity has come a long way. The Old Greeks would call those creative forces muses, other religions referred to them as God. Today people still mostly treat creativity as an aha moment outside the area of influence. However, just by looking at the creative process one can tell, that creativity and creative work is more than just that one "Aha-Moment" (insight). It is clear that generating ideas demands planning and preparation, identifying something of interest like a problem, an opportunity or a challenge, doing research. This then leads to thinking of a solution, allowing time to incubate and iterations before arriving at something “complete.” Students learn that hard work is what makes their ideas come to life and sticktuiveness is what helps them get better.

DELIVERABLE:

Installation is available for viewing in the ACM Building (G Building) between 9am - 3pm.

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