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

To learn more about Sal Plascencia, visit https://salvadorplascencia.com

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Mentioned in this episode:

Artists

Yoko Ono, Tom Friedman

Authors

Ted Chiang, Raymond Carver, Dennis Johnson

Recommendations

Robert Irwin, Seeing is Forgetting the Name of What One Sees

James Baldwin, Another Country

Hosted by Olivia Hewitt. Produced by Isa Berardo, Nick Endicott, Olivia Hewitt, and Kaitlyn Paulsen from The Hive at The Claremont Colleges.