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Living a Creative Life: Advice from Printmaking Chair and Alumnus in the Boston Globe

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In a Boston Globe article about advice for living a creative life, Printmaking Chair Fred Liang and Alumnus Magda Leon share their thoughts on the artistic process and the importance of learning from struggle and failure.

The two were quoted from previous Globe features saying:

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Live in the moment: Printmaker Magda Leon sees art-making as sacred, and often a struggle: “It’s laborious. That personal moment of just sweating — it’s very private, very genuine. That’s where, for me, the art is. The outcome is the cherry on top.” So value what your art does for you, and maybe you alone. Flamenco choreographer Laura Sánchez says her performance “takes parts of my life where I feel unseen and transforms them into something that can be seen.”

Expect failure: It’s part of the process. When multimedia artist Fred H.C. Liang’s students fear failure, he tells them, “If you look at my studio, it’s a monument to failure.”

“You just have to be fearless. You have to blow it up, make bad things, put them aside. Try and understand why they’re bad,” Donovan said. “All of those experiments lead to other things. It’s about developing your own language, and you can’t do it without practice.”

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