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Growing Your Creativity (Skillshare)

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Yes, you too can be a creative genius. This class is designed to give you actionable steps that will help you flex your creative muscles, find inspiration, identify your artistic voice, and build your confidence with creating new, exciting ideas authentic to you. Joing teacher, professional photographer, and serial creator Nicole York for a journey into what creativity is, why it's important, and how you can get better at it.

In this class project, you will be creating a list of brand new projects for your portfolio that are unique, authentic, and creative. Choose one from your list to create and share it with the class.
Don't forget to download the class PDF so you have a personal copy to refer to.

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