Instructor: Lisa Daria Kennedy
Monday - Friday
July 20 - 24
9am - 12pm
Open studio: Mon - Thurs, 1pm - 4pm
5 sessions
Let's start a daily painting practice together. The value of a commitment to a specific art-making practice is that the daily routine is both grounding and freeing, it’s an insistent act of documentation and with it, offers a way to make sense of it all. The on-going nature of this practice leaves the viewer rooting for the next day, while for the creator it emphasizes the creative process over product. My approach teaches a habit forming system for a daily (or almost daily) painting practice. We’ll talk about simplifying the painting process, obstacles to creating a daily practice (and how to overcome them), effective habit building, and ways to stay motivated through planning, reflection, and innovative painting techniques.
I teach varying approaches that provide participants with: A system to make a personalized daily creative habit and exercises that solidify a daily art making approach.
Why daily painting? Through daily painting, we paint your own reality through action, connection, and being. Daily painting is a game-changer, through the incessant act of daily painting, it creates a connection with other daily painters, artists, galleries, exhibitions opportunities, art buyers, and consultants. The act forms our identity and perpetuates a direction and rhythm in the studio like none other.
Why take/host this workshop? There is a global interest in creating a daily art practice. I have a solid online and in-person following and my workshops sell out. My art practice demonstrates the importance of art as human practice and ties into the latest research from the National Endowment of the Arts, “Healing, Bridging, Thriving, Arts and Culture in Our Communities,” which illustrates new research on the positive psychological and psychological impacts of art as human practice.
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Lisa Daria Kennedy has been making one small painting every single day for the last 5,900 days. After fifteen years, she has no intention of stopping. Having cancer as a young adult, she discovered living is not just surviving. Young and faced with an existential crisis, she was acutely aware of all the time she'd wasted and the things she put off - like painting. In a moment of clarity she pared the creative process down to this one idea - show up for the job. She started showing up for her new job in 2009 and without excuse wakes up every day at five and paints. She grew up along the northeast edge of the Hockomock Swamp in Massachusetts and received her BA from Roger Williams University in Graphic Design, a BFA in Illustration and an MFA in Painting from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston where she’s also an Associate Professor. She lives 9 nautical miles from Boston in World’s End in an old fishing camp with her Wheaten Terrier, Olive, when she’s not painting she’s paddling.