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The Artist's Process by Multcolib My Librarian Sherita

Memoirs, novels, documentaries, and dramas capture a range of creative processes.

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  • Annie Pootoogook was an Inuk artist known for her innovative, slice of life, colored pencil drawings. For those interested in the artist's process, this documentary features awe-inspiring footage of Pootoogook in the midst of cathartic…
    UnknownSite Media, 2006. — Kanopy Streaming Video
  • Kurt, a German artist, escapes to West Germany after growing up under the Nazi regime. He struggles to find his artist voice until truths from his past emerge through his artwork beckoning to expose secrets some would prefer to remain…
    DVDCulver City, CA : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, [2019] — DVD Foreign NEVER
  • 23-year-old artist, Edie, enters into a complex entanglement with a man in an open marriage, his wife, and their adopted daughter-culminating into a gritty intersection where unexpected happenings breathe inspiration into Edie’s paintings.…
    BookNew York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020. — FICTION LEILANI 2020
  • Accompany the acclaimed painter, Kehinde Wiley as he shifts from his early subject matter-Black men-to paint a series of Black female portraits for the first time. For those interested in the behind the scenes intricacies that go into the…
    Streaming Video[United States] : Music Box Films, 2023. — Hoopla Streaming Video
  • Just Jerry

    How Drawing Shaped My Life : a Memoir

    Pinkney, Jerry,
    Jerry Pinkney, Caldecott Medal winner and illustrator of over one hundred books, tells the story of his childhood and how he developed his artistic talent.
    BookNew York : Little, Brown and Company, 2023. — j BIO 741.642 PINKNEY 2023
  • A New Color

    the Art of Being Edythe Boone

    Follow Edyth Boone, fearless muralist, activist, and educator, as she confronts injustice through the transformative power of art.
    DVD[United States] : Galewind Films, [2015] — DVD 709.2 NEW
  • Shaker Heights, Ohio, is a by-the-books kind of town. Longtime residents know the well-established rules of conduct. Newcomers, such as itinerant artist Mia Warren and her teenage daughter, Pearl, must find out for themselves what is…
    BookNew York : Penguin Press, 2017. — FICTION NG 2017
  • An absorbing docudrama depicting Picasso's life, relationships, and creative work.
    DVDBeverly Hills, California : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, [2018] — DVD Drama GENIUS2
  • An engrossing documentary about neoexpressionist, Jean-Michel Basquiat.
    Streaming VideoArthouse Films, 2009. — Kanopy Streaming Video