By Greg Bauerlein

Most people spell creativity as you see it here, but creative studies students and educators gave a variety of ways to look at the word.

One of the features of the Creativity and Innovation Day celebration held in Campbell Student Union was a mural of drawings made up of pictures drawn by people attending the event.

Brian Nesline, Graphic Design student, believes that creativity is something people use every day and projects such as these can bring out creativity in people that they never knew they had.

“I really like working with creative art design projects that people can interact with, have fun with, and really see the variety of ideas people come up with such as with this mural of drawings.” said Nesline.

Nesline was in charge of putting up the mural where people volunteered to pick a letter, out of a bag at random that consisted of the letters of creativity. Next they were asked to write down five objects that they could think of that begin with that letter, and finally to draw one of those objects. The pictures were scanned on a computer and posted up on the mural to spell out creativity.

“The basic idea of this was to see all the different ideas and objects people came up with and how many different ways we could spell out creativity,” said Nesline.

Creativity and Innovation Day was an idea that was based in Toronto, according to the President of Creative Connections Alumni Network, Cristin Daly.

“Marcie Seagal started Creativity and Innovation Day, and we are basically continuing with the idea to show people what creativity is and how it cant be used,” said Daly.

The celebration featured many different presentations and displays, including a facilitator’s corner with kits and guides for educators and students of creative studies. Local company delphi systems, which stress the importance of daily creativity among its workers, gave a presentation stressing the use and importance of creative ideas among the workplace.

According to the coordinator of the local Art on Wheels project, Tony Billings, the theory and practice of creativity touches everyone and the ideas stressed at the celebration help people be innovative with their ideas.

“Creativity and Innovation Day helps us take the theory that we as a group stress and learn at the center and help us apply it to the community,” said Billings

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International Center for Studies in Creativity