Lunch will be provided
Location: MTCC Ballroom
Program Overview
Leaders, entrepreneurs and business innovators can learn a lot from the artists’ ability to handle adversity and challenge, push the boundaries of imagination, survive transformational change and sustain creativity. Are you ready to exercise your right-mind?
Painting On Water™, developed by Amy Basic, is designed to teach you to think more creatively. This one of a kind, 100% hands-on session will offer you interactive, inspirational and spiritual insights. Be prepared to enhance your awareness and appreciation of beauty and opportunities while you journal your transformation for personal applications. Both relaxing and energizing, the workshop will fluctuate between polarities of meaning, allowing you to learn about the essence of human experience and its relationship to the universe. Past participants have found it to be a fun, unique and a thought-provoking creative experience. Each participant will create their own personal piece of artwork (black & white) as well as collaborate with others to create a group piece.
You will learn to:
• Build your creative confidence
• Expand your understanding of the Asian culture and philosophy
• Enhance creativity by approaching problems from multiple perspectives
• Appreciate interdisciplinary collaboration to problem solving and creativity
Amy Basic (also known as Amy Lee Segami) is both a mechanical engineer and a professional artist. With water as canvas, Segami draws on physics knowledge and Asian cultures to create art. Fluctuating between polarities of meaning, her works evoke the essence of human experience and its relationship to the universe. Since 1989, her unique and distinctive paintings have won numerous awards, featured in exhibitions and permanent collections.
Born in China, raised in Hong Kong, Segami is a naturalized US citizen. She earned a B.S. and M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology and studied many traditional Asian art forms. Painting on Water™ Workshop is an experiential program she developed for innovators to enhance creativity and problem solving skills. Segami is recognized for her extraordinary talents in bridging the gap between science and art, combining them with the cultural diversity of the East and West into a rich medium for expression, development, and innovation.
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