Creative Mind Forward
Daily Inspiration
“Don’t let people rent space in your head”
-Warren Dahlin
“One’s destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.”
– Henry Miller
“Creativity is intelligence having fun”
― Albert Einstein
Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.”
– William S. Burroughs
“Have no fear of perfection, you’ll never reach it”
– Salvador Dali
“If you’re not prepared to be wrong ,you’ll never come up with any thing original”
– Sir Ken Robinson
“A good painter is to paint two main things, namely men and the working of man’s mind.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
“I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.”
– William Blake
“Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.”
– FDR, first inaugural address.
“Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.”
— Jonh Steinbeck
“Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity”
— John F. Kennedy
“A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities, and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.”
— Harry Truman  
“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”
— Pablo Picasso  
“I have not failed. I have just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
  — Thomas Edison    
“Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.”
— Jonathan Swift  

Projects

Wednesday, March 30th, 2016

The Rochester Memorial Project

480 Rochester Memorial Elementary School students collaborated on an ephemeral mural in the courtyard wishing a warm welcome to spring! Special thanks to the staff for helping organize this one-day complex project. March 2016, Rochester, MA.      

Friday, February 5th, 2016

Harvard Innovation Lab: Collaboration Mural

A true “Collaboration” happened on January 27, 2016! Harvard students and iLab staff members were eager to be a part of the project by serving as hand models for the ephemeral mural ( dryers markers on whiteboard)....

Friday, February 5th, 2016

Harness Natural

This ephemeral mural at Harvard Innovation Lab ( dry-erase markers on whiteboard) prompts the audience to brainstorm about new natural sources of energy. September 2015. Artist: Jerrie Lyndon

Wednesday, June 24th, 2015

Use the Napkin 2015

Billions of ideas are forgotten each day due to lack of timely documentation. Once disposed from the mind, they become  hopeless and homeless. A single-ply hero is here for the rescue, tough enough to serve as canvas for your next world-changing thought or...

Friday, June 12th, 2015

July 2: Creativity 101 Workshop

July 2, 2015, at 6pm Creativity 101 Location: Groundwork, 1213 Purchase St, 2nd Floor, New Bedford, MA 02740 Cost: $10 Discover your creative self! Through a series of mindful exercises (including improvisation and meditation) Jerrie Lyndon, Creative Mastermind at Creative Mind...

Monday, May 4th, 2015

June 6, 2015 – Chalk Art Tribute to Sidewalk Sam

Chalk Art Tribute to Sidewalk Sam June 6, 2015 – Chalk Artist Jerrie K. Lyndon created a large-scale participatory chalk drawing durig the Cambridge River Festival to commemorate the artwork of Robert Guillemin, best known as Sidewalk Sam...