catapult magazine

Items tagged creativity

• Freely given

  Thoughts on the question of (not) registering for gifts.

• All tensed up with someplace to go

  What to do when the system's getting you down...even in your sleep.

• To retreat, perchance to dream

  On a time away that was abundantly productive -- in many senses of the word.

• Beyond critique

  Discovering the other pleasures of popular art.

• Eyes to see

  A father reflects on what it means to let art in.

• No apologies

  Naming and honoring the good desire for play time.

• Hope at the margins

  Loving marginalized places enough to unearth their gifts and share their burdens.

• Taking a red crayon to a white wall

  How the students in a free writing workshop have taught the teacher.

• Life changer

  Remembering the pedagogy of Mrs. Schrager.

• Hope of autumn

  Pining for fall in the American South.

• Why *cino is not a church

  A report from the *cino talks on one of the big questions.

• The good life

  A call to creativity, grace and the correspondence of action and belief.

• Coffee, uncomplicated

  In praise of a morning ritual that awakens creativity.

• Neighboring

  How to create beloved community on your block.

• Beautiful inefficiencies

  A reflection in words, photos and video about the possibilities of an autumn staple.

• Ten lies artists tell themselves

  An art director and illustrator speaks to fellow artists from experience.

• Ten “spacious” things from 2012

  Recounting some of the year’s most hopeful, creative, generous, adventurous, expectant...

• Ten books, past and present

  Short reviews of C.S. Lewis, Chesterton, Wodehouse and more.

• Near ... far!

  Ten reasons to support *cino from wherever you are.

• Im - ag - i - na - tion

  Living with faithful imagination.

• Come further in, come further up!

  C.S. Lewis Chronicles of Narnia offer a glimpse of the world to come.

• Living the homemade life

  How a forced transition became a welcome change.

• Christmas Adam

  A homemade neighborhood tradition engages local kids.

• What is art?

  High school creative writing students respond to the catapult prompt.

• A masterpiece

  Debunking the creative “haves” and “have-nots” from an early age.

• Creating room

  Experiencing, and making room for others to experience, the Holy in making art.

• My notebook full of dishcloths

  On the perfectly impractical art of writing poetry.

• Beyond my ability

  The journey toward words as a chosen medium.

• Back at the easel

  Pondering the predictability of artistic inspiration.

• Watermarks

  Washing dishes, putting in a fence, gardening, writing, playing music: a common thread.