March 10, 2010

Tory2 Hello, and thanks for stopping in!

I’m Tory Hughes, and you’ve found my website for all things creative.

I’m an artist, teacher, writer and creative consultant.
I help people be more creative.

This site hosts my artwork and teaching, including my blog about living as an artist. If you want to express your creativity more completely, I am so glad you’re here today!

( You have entered a job-site; pardon our mess while we renovate … And check back often for improvements! Thanks- Tory) [click to continue…]

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Friday Studio Update 3.5.10

March 6, 2010

Fridays bring an end-of-the-week summary to studio days.

Spring has swept into my Santa Fe studio, and settled in. I immersed in metalworking, new color palettes, and a compulsion to create forms inhabiting a different relationship to gravity. This week I made brooches. [click to continue…]

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New Classes + Great Price for 2010!

March 4, 2010

Hello you creative minds!
Lots of news from Santa Fe; in this post-
Six Directions to enhance your creativity, and a class Fee Reduction for 2010 to introduce them!

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Friday Studio Roundup 2.26.10

February 26, 2010

Fridays bring an end-of-the-week summary to studio days.
This week, I’ve had a great time combining different polymer and mixed media elements into one-of-a-kind hinged pendants and necklaces. These will be heading over to my store.
Here, I want to show you what I made, and give you details. They are all available as of this [...]

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Winters’ Quality Shows

February 18, 2010

Today’s Territory :
Put Elise Winters into the craziness of Manhattan’s Fashion District, with the Museum of Art and Design just a few blocks away. What do you get?
Quality shows.
Elise Winters’ perseverance and talent- yes, Elise, talent- have enriched our lives. She brought about the Polymer Art Archive, and the Museum Project, which have solidified polymer’s [...]

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Refine and Expand

February 16, 2010

Today’s territory is creative style.
Some people refine they do,
some people expand what they do.
There are no wrong answers.
What is your primary creative activity?

We all do a bit of both, granted. But some of us are natural deepeners, and some are natural explorers.
Each brings with it special benefits and costs.
Recognizing these, and using the right [...]

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Material Abundance

January 30, 2010

Today’s territory is trusting in material abundance.
Trust that what we require for action, including creative action, will be there for us.
Well of course it’s a physical principle and a metaphysical principle.
See that large silver bead at the center of this necklace? It’s from an antiquities show in Santa Fe a few months ago. Most of [...]

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Getting Grounded

January 25, 2010

Today’s territory is getting grounded.
Hey there! Happy New Decade. Doesn’t that feel better?
I am working on my website. A big hello to all of you: let me know what works and doesn’t out there in laptop land. I am thinking of you as I do this!
And I am getting ready to go to Arizona next [...]

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Perception or Projection?

September 5, 2009

Today’s territory

Language and creativity.
Perception can mean different things.

I use it to mean ’the range of sensory input we take in: sight, hearing, smell, tactile awareness, kinesthetic sensing, etcetera’.

Recently a friend used it just as emphatically to mean ‘what we decide about something, that may or may not be true’.

Seems simple but in fact these are [...]

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Whose Art Is This?

August 9, 2009

Today’s territory
Taste, satisfaction, and accomplishment.
Who are you making your art for?
How will you know you are done?
What lets you know you were successful?
If you don’t know the answers, you will never feel
1. Done
2. Successful
3. Proud
In my creative consulting business, I talk with a lot of people who feel they are creatively blocked. And many people [...]

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