S2E3: Breaking Rules with Ken Fandell and Sal Plascencia
In this episode, Ken Fandell and Sal Plascencia, discuss how boredom might be the perfect recipe for creativity, how deep emotion should have a place in the syllabus, and how art is sometimes about breaking all the rules. In this conversation, they share how they learned their own creative processes and how they pass these pedagogies on to their students. Ken Fandell is an artist and professor of art at Harvey Mudd College, and Sal Plascencia is an author and creative writing professor at Harvey Mudd College.
To learn more about Ken Fandell, visit http://kenfandell.com [http://kenfandell.com]
To learn more about Sal Plascencia, visit https://salvadorplascencia.com [https://salvadorplascencia.com]
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Mentioned in this episode:
Artists
Yoko Ono [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoko_Ono], Tom Friedman [https://www.stephenfriedman.com/artists/36-tom-friedman/]
Authors
Ted Chiang [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Chiang#External_links], Raymond Carver [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Carver], Dennis Johnson [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Johnson]
Recommendations
Robert Irwin, Seeing is Forgetting the Name of What One Sees [https://www.amazon.com/Seeing-Forgetting-Name-Thing-Sees/dp/0520256093]
James Baldwin, Another Country [https://www.amazon.com/Another-Country-James-Baldwin/dp/0679744711]
Hosted by Olivia Hewitt. Produced by Isa Berardo, Nick Endicott, Olivia Hewitt, and Kaitlyn Paulsen from The Hive at The Claremont Colleges.