Podcast: What Does Making Things Mean? with Bridget Benton

All images in this post are by Bridget Benton, and used with permission.

This podcast is filled with BIG, fascinating ideas about the intersection of creativity and spirit. How do you find your own personal meaning in making things? Can art or craft (or any other creative pursuit) actually become a spiritual practice? How can creative work be spiritual and exist alongside your existing spiritual beliefs?

We have an excellent guide through all these questions this week: Bridget Benton is a mixed-media artist and a teacher who specializes in just this subject. Her book, The Creative Conversation, is based on classes she’s been teaching for years. She helps creative people uncover the ways that making things feeds their souls – and how regular making can become an important path to staying grounded and understanding your place in the world.

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Enjoy These Links:

• Bridget’s website is a gateway to her book, The Creative Conversation (which is, by the way, an indie publishing project in paper form!)

• You can also occasionally find Bridget at her blog, on Twitter and on Facebook.

• In the interview, Bridget mentioned Eric Booth‘s book, The Everyday Work of Art.

• Mark McGuinness has a great post on What Daily Meditation Can Do for Your Creativity, at The 99%.

• If you missed it, this documentary on Art as Spirituality from the PBS art21 series is excellent.