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What is creative wellness?
What is creative wellness?
Creative Wellness focuses on a person's creative impulses, ideas, and expression through different mediums and their ability to find joy, clarity, self-expression, and satisfaction through creative outlets. Someone who is creatively well participating in various arts and cultural experiences to understand and appreciate themselves, their environment, and their imagination.
Expressing emotions and views through the arts is a great way to relieve stress. Students at RISD spend all day making and creating, so this might seem like an easy step. However, keeping up with the constrained demand of creativity can be draining and result in burnout. When imagination becomes the primary demand of your work, it might cause anxiety and stress, which is not what you went to art school for.
A creative outlet outside of your school projects might be a starting point for achieving creative wellness. This may mean many different mediums. For example, cooking a fancy meal, making collages with your friends, playing instruments, drawing for fun, dancing, or doing performance art. When you have creative outlets that do not overlap with your academic performance, it can relieve stress rather than induce stress.
This dimension can help you be more confident in your Occupational Wellness and strengthen your Spiritual Wellness.
On-Campus Resources
On-Campus Resources
Student Organizations: Joining or creating a student club is a good source for an extracurricular creative outlet. You may also find a community that can support your interests!
Go to involved.risd.edu to learn more about different clubs
You can also attend Brown Student clubs for other clubs that RISD may not provide
Attend Artist Talks and Academic Events: Every semester departments will hold one to two major related artist talks. Going to these events may widen your horizon of what it is like outside the studio and help you seek out different opportunities
Look for more information about upcoming talks in your department or check involved.risd.edu
Start a side project: Whether this is a crochet hat you have been working on for two years, or a stool you made during your free time, having a “work-in-progress” side project that has no deadline or purpose can be healing for some
Center for Arts and Language (A&L)
Sometimes our creativity needs help getting from our brain to the medium we are working with. In those moments we can help! Visit us to get help revising papers, practicing for critiques, designing your thesis book, finding your voice, and speaking your mind. Our services are open to all RISD students. Meet with us for support in making your creative endeavors shine!
Email: artsandlanguage@risd.edu
Phone: 401 454-6488
Location: Fleet Library, 15 Westminster Street, 2nd Floor
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Looking to learn a new skill or incorporate a new medium into your creative practice? Through Co-Works you can become trained to use a variety of amazing equipment such as 3D-printing, carpet tufting, laser cutting and more! Schedule on our website!
Email: btruse01@risd.edu
Phone: 401 277-4382
Location: Fletcher Building, 212 Union Street, Ground Floor
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Did you know that you have access to over 100,00 works of art right on campus? That’s right, the RISD Museum is home to an incredible collection and is free to enter for all RISD students. You are invited to spend time in the vast collections of the museum to further your personal creativity.
Phone: 401 454-6500
Email: museum@risd.edu
Location: 20 North Main Street
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Creativity is everywhere if you look for it! Through a RISD Global you can explore creativity all over the world through cross-cultural learning and exchange! On a Global trip you will have opportunities for engagement with local communities and diverse traditions of making expanding your creative mind!
Email: global@risd.edu
Phone: 401 454-6725
Location: 20 Washington Place
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Student Clubs and Organizations
Looking for other students who share an interest in your creative hobby? Look no further than the student clubs and organizations offered through CSI. You can join student clubs and organizations founded on common hobbies, skills, sports, or identity. Who knows you may even be introduced to a new creative outlet! Not seeing what you are looking for? Don’t fret you can apply to create a new club through the annual club approval process.
Email: csi@risd.edu
Phone: 401 454-6600
Location: Carr House, 210 Benefit Street, 2nd Floor
Off-Campus Resources
Off-Campus Resources
Small Point Cafe: Local Queer Friendly Cafe
Every Sunday Knitting Day in Providence
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