These are  notes from the 2/7/01 meeting at the Brain Exchange, brainstorming group.   

The question I posed was: "What art activities could we create that can be used to explore a theme like Inspiration."

• Tape a paper on your back  put your fear, regret, inspiration, etc.  on it.  Then what? 
• Make a movie
• Create a shrine to your muse
• Create an inspiration object
• Use clay and found objects
• Create a piece of art on some else's story of inspiration
• Morphological guide 
• create inspiration stack cookies, fruit carving, juggling
• Use collage
• Group painting
• Do improv - state a problem and act it out.
• Do worm up activities
• Take photos - write a short story about it. then some take the story and draw a picture.
• Go to different location.
  • Create a group story or drawing in the sand, make sand castles
  • create driftwood art.
• do a dance, with various ways of walking
• meet in the middle of the night when creativity is flowing.
• create a new inspirational language
• drink lots of wine
• propose a concept before you meet next time.
• bring what is a symbol of inspiration  to a meeting
• Build something from cards
• What are 10 different ways that inspiration ???
• Make something tangible
• Write a scene
• Something inspires you, what's the next step.
• Use Myers Sprigs
• Create a crossword puzzle.
• volunteer to solve a community problem, like world peace.
• need a personal touch. Joy called a couple of people and that encouraged them to come.. "it tipped the balance" s someone said. create a phone tree, gives people a chance to call and talk to each other.
• different types of brainstorming
  • verbal
  • drawing
  • acting
  • photo
  • crazy