Welcome to Claiming Creativity!

We welcome those delegates who are attending the ELIA biennial symposia Creativity: Reclaimed.

This forum features the work presented at the Claiming Creativity symposium held at Columbia College Chicago on April 21-24, 2010. Claiming Creativity centered on the intersection of the arts and other disciplines, such as economics, science, and commerce in relation to an understanding of the term “creativity.” From a rich array of sessions, based on numerous papers from numerous international participants, arose a number of critical questions facing artists and arts educators—and all creative practitioners. These questions include:

• What obligations do artists have relative to the social needs of their communities?
• What power can artists exert in legislative matters that will not only assert the primacy of cultural production, but assure a sustained commitment to arts education?
• How can the intersections between the arts and other disciplines best be nurtured and developed?
• How has the recent emphasis on practice-based research affected the nature and quality of arts education?


Below you will find links to the recorded sessions as they occurred at the Claiming Creativity symposium. These sessions helped provoke and offer suggestive solutions to the aforementioned critical questions. We welcome your thoughts and research, and we do hope to see you at the ELIA biennial as we prepare again to reclaim creativity.


For any additional information, please email Claming Creativity.