CREATIVITY
WORKSHOP

Creative Writing,
Drawing,
Storytelling,
Memoir

The Creativity Workshop is based in New York City and is taught around the world. It was established in 1993 by writer Shelley Berc and multimedia artist Alejandro Fogel to provide an alternative to traditional forms of education and thinking. The organization is dedicated to teaching individuals and groups about their creative processes.

Faculty
Shelley Berc, Director, Faculty
Alejandro Fogel, Director, Faculty
Patricia Foster, Faculty
Kirpal Singh, Faculty
Sue Woolfe, Faculty

Administration
Vivian Glusman, Administrative Associate
Mira Stein, Customer Service
Ceci Glusman, Administrative Assistant
Yan Kuznetsov, Administrative Assistant

Shelley Berc
Shelley Berc’s novel, The Shape of Wilderness, was published by Coffee House Press. The New York Times praised it as "a vividly imagined parable...a strange and potent book...a fantastical world of unusual sensuality and invention". Her second novel, Light and Its Shadow, was published by Ethos Press last spring. Excerpts of her novels have been featured in Exquisite Corpse, ed. Andrei Codrescu, BOMB, Linnaean Street, 5_Trope, Pamanoak Review, and as a Web del Sol Editor's pick. She has just completed a new novel, Mrs. Poe, which is about Edgar Allen Poe's wife. Her numerous awards include a McKnight Fellowship, two Lila Wallace/Readers Digest awards, Rockefeller/Bellagio Fellowship, National Jewish Culture Playwriting award, the prestigious two year Pew/TCG National Theatre Artists Residency, an NEA Opera/Music librettist fellowship, and an Outer Critics Circle nomination for best off-Broadway play. Shelley Berc's theatre pieces have starred many notable actors, such as Patrick Stewart, Stanley Tucci, and Tony Shalhoub. Her plays have been performed at the American Repertory Theatre, the Yale Rep, Seattle Rep, and Classic Stage Company among others. She and her husband Alejandro Fogel have been cultural ambassadors for the US State Department's Arts America Program, lecturing in their artistic fields and teaching workshops in creativity in Hungary, Rumania, Australia, and Italy. Berc was Professor of the International Writing Program and the Iowa Playwrights Workshop at the University of Iowa from 1985-2000. Berc holds an MFA from the Yale School of Drama and was one of the first women to graduate from Amherst College.

Alejandro Fogel
Alejandro Fogel is a multimedia artist working in painting, writing, installations, video, travel-performance, and digital art. He has exhibited his work in galleries and museums in Argentina, Bulgaria, Cuba, France, Israel, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, United States and Germany.
Since he had his first experience of the Andes, Mr. Fogel became deeply involved with the history and art of Pre-Columbian cultures and subsequently the roots of individuals in culture and the legacy of heritage. Since 1995 he has been creating art works that follow the footsteps of his father's journey from a Hassidic youth in Transylvania through the years of the Holocaust in labor camps and in hiding and his subsequent emigration to Argentina where Fogel was born.

Alejandro Fogel has received many awards and honors. He was a Fellow and a 2 year artist-in-residence of the Institute of Current World Affairs. He was an artist in residency at the Rockefeller Foundation Study and Conference Center in Bellagio, Italy. He was selected by The Rolex Award for Enterprise in Geneva, Switzerland, which included the publication of his project The Inkas Road. His awards are numerous; they include, the Arche Biennal Award in Painting, the National Endowment for the Arts of Argentina First Prize in Painting, The Pio Collivadino Award at the Argentine National Gallery of Art, and the Richard Wagner International Association Award in Painting.

Alejandro Fogel worked with the Argentine Commission of Visual Arts helping to develop a native folk artists archive. He also established and taught a series of visual arts workshops for indigenous cultures living in remote areas of the Andes and Patagonia.

Alejandro Fogel's works are in museums and public and private collections in Argentina, United States, France, Brazil, Uruguay, Israel, Italy, Netherlands, Saudi Arabia and Canada.

Additional Faculty

Patricia Foster
Patricia Foster is the author of All the Lost Girls (memoir), Just Beneath My Skin (personal essays; starred review from Kirkus Reviews) and the editor of Minding the Body and Sister to Sister. She won the PEN/Jerard Fund Award, the Mary Roberts Rinehart Award, the Hoepfner Award, and the Dean?s Scholar Award for nonfiction, received a Florida Arts Council Award, the Lake Effect Fiction Award, and a Yaddo Fellowship for fiction as well as four Alabama Arts & Humanities grants. Her work has been reviewed in The New York Times Book Review, Atlanta Journal & Constitution, Vogue, Chronicle for Higher Education, Glamour, Ploughshares as well as other newspapers and journals. She?s published both nonfiction and fiction in the Iowa Review, Gettysburg Review, Antioch Review, Massachusetts Review, Glimmer Train and other quarterlies. She received her MFA from the Iowa Writers? Workshop and her Ph.D. from Florida State University. She is a professor in the MFA Program in Nonfiction at the University of Iowa and has been an exchange professor in France.

Kirpal Singh
Professor Kirpal Singh is recognized internationally as an expert in the field of creativity development and is a frequent a keynoter speaker at conferences and seminars on Creativity & Innovation. He is the founding Director of the Centre for Cross-Cultural Studies at the Singapore Management University, where he is a professor and teaches courses in creative thinking. Dr. Singh's latest book, "Thinking Hats & Colored Turbans" (Prentice-Hall, 2004), deals with the exploration of creativity in business, art, science, and life. He has been a consultant in innovation to several large corporations (such as AMEX, IBM, Singapore Airlines, L'Oreal). Singh is also a fiction writer and poet. This year he is a visiting writer at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, teaching poetry. He is the author of 15 books and more than 40 journal articles. Singh, a recipient of numerous writing awards, has given readings of his work at Literature & Arts Festivals all over the world, including The Edinburgh, Cambridge, York, Adelaide, Toronto, and Sydney Festivals. He has lectured and served as a writer-in-residence at universities in Japan, Hong Kong, Australia, Canada, UK, USA, India, Philippines, Mexico, Germany, Italy, France, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Hungary. In 1997 he was Distinguished International Writer at the world-famous University of Iowa International Writing Program. In 2005 Professor Singh became the first non-American to be appointed to the American Creativity Association’s Board.

Sue Woolfe
Sue Woolfe is a writer of both fiction and creative non-fiction. She is also a well known teacher of writing, focusing on the writing journey and finding the writer's unique voice. Her novel, Leaning Towards Infinity, about two generations of women mathematicians, won the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction in 1996 and was shortlisted for many other prizes, including the prestigious US Tiptree Prize. It was also professionally performed as a stage play, as was her first novel, Painted Woman. In her current non-fiction book, "The Mystery of the Cleaning Lady: A Writer Looks at Creativity and Neuroscience", Woolfe explores what science and brain imaging teach us about the creative imagination and how to make it work for us. She shows that we can learn to be creative, not by a valiant act of will, but by learning to follow the brain techniques of creative people.Her other creative nonfiction books include: Making Stories: How Ten Australian Novels were Written, co-authored with Kate Grenville, and Wild Minds, an assemblage of stories from some of last century's most daring authors, including Marguerite Duras, Flannery O'Connor, Italo Calvino and Joseph Conrad. In her latest novel, The Secret Cure, she has written a profoundly moving tale which explores new ways of what it means to be human, to be normal, to be honourable and above all what it means to love. Woolfe's books have been published internationally. She lives in Australia and is a professor of creative writing at Sydney University.

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