Shmee is an intermedia artist, group facilitator, and educator whose work is driven by a commitment to creative emergence and its potential for enriching and transformative education at the confluence of arts and psychology. With experience in higher education and community arts, Shmee offers research-based curriculum that utilizes constructive and stimulating teaching methods to promote deep inquiry and knowledge building.
Creative Explorations of Self
In this course, students will explore intersectionality and the phenomenology of self through art-based inquiry. Guided by theoretical and empirical research in social and cognitive science, students will reflect on what constitutes a sense of self by exploring their relationship to various social, cultural, ecological, and somatic identities, including a critical review of power in identity politics.
A series of creative and meaning-making projects encourage students to examine unconscious assumptions and beliefs while integrating new perspectives and understandings through written reflection and discussion. The goal of the course is to become familiar with psychological frameworks for personal transformation, cultivate capacity for relating through difference in identities, and explore a more holistic sense of self.
A series of creative and meaning-making projects encourage students to examine unconscious assumptions and beliefs while integrating new perspectives and understandings through written reflection and discussion. The goal of the course is to become familiar with psychological frameworks for personal transformation, cultivate capacity for relating through difference in identities, and explore a more holistic sense of self.
Narrative CartographyNarrative Cartography speaks to the interwoven nature of story and map. Whether lived or literary, plot lines connect storylines and unearth the myriad of relationships alive in our environments. The Art of Shmee invites you to co-author a journey with your environment through a guided creative exercise. Using the Field Notes Workbook for Narrative Cartography, participants are prompted to track both inner and outer experience and record their observations of multi-sensory interactions with their surroundings. These moments of mindfulness are then transcribed onto a map of the area through a process of visual story telling.
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Archetype in FilmText: Seven Basic Plots by Booker
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