Creativity

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Creativity
Transitioning from fruit foraging to meat hunters, humans were forced to be more social and cooperative. And eating that flesh combined with physiological evolution lead to extremely quick growth of the human frontal lobe of the brain. This allowed humans to develop imagination. A “superpower” that allows the understanding of time, distance, and potential outcomes from actions. Gathering around a campfire to cook meat developed our social skills. It was a place for storytelling, gossip, and bonding myths. A place to learn your role in society and the status of others.

Creativity is using the imagination to produce a work. An innovation of style, empathy, and metaphor. Art provides a way of remembering, hope, grieving, understanding, growth, and appreciation. It’s a contrasting drive for broad diversity and unique niches for survival. A tool that enables us to be better people.

What do you do to be creative? Do you enjoy playing a musical instrument? Maybe you’re more reflective and search yourself for poetry and song? Expression can come from your body in the form of dance, yoga, and athleticism. What inspires you?

Mike Kraus was born on the industrial shoreline of Muskegon, Michigan. After earning his Fine Arts Degree from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, he attended Grand Valley State University for his graduate degree. From there, he gained varied experiences from the Chicago Architecture Foundation, Art Institute of Chicago, Hauenstein Center For Presidential Studies, Lollypop Farm Humane Society, and the Children’s Memorial Foundation. And every place he worked, he had his sketchbook with him and found ways to be actively creative. In 2014, Kraus became a full-time artist by establishing Mike Kraus Art. Since then, he has sold thousands of paintings that are displayed in nearly every state and dozens of countries. Currently, Kraus lives in Rochester, New York with his beautiful wife and goofy dog.

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