Make: Three Modes of Making

1 THREE MODES OF MAKING

In The Art Spirit, Robert Henri, the influential art teacher at The Art Students League during the early 20th century, wrote:

Art when really understood is the province of every human being. It is simply a question of doing things, anything, well. It is not an outside, extra thing. When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing creature.… Where those who are not artists are trying to close the book, he opens it, shows there are still more pages possible.

This book is about making, creativity, and the ways that they take place. Kids are often labeled as creative or not, as if there is one way to be creative. For much of my life, I ...