Awakening Creativity by Lily Yeh, Innovative Urban Designer & Social Pioneer
Lily Yeh is an acclaimed visual artist who has worked with students, community leaders, and teachers in Canada, China, Ecuador, Ghana, Kenya, Syria, Italy and in cities and neighborhoods across the United States. Yeh is considered one of America's most innovative urban designers and social pioneers. Awakening Creativity is her first, much-awaited book.
In Awakening Creativity, Yeh facilitates the art-making process for students of The Dandelion School, the only nonprofit organization in Beijing that serves the children of poor migrant workers coming from 24 provinces. Yeh worked with hundreds of students, teachers, volunteers and workers to transform the school's main campus with mural painting, mosaics, and environmental sculpture. Students were involved in every aspect of the art-making, which has become central to the school's curriculum and well-being.
Lily Yeh founded Barefoot Artists, a volunteer organization that uses the power of art to revitalize impoverished communities. Yeh is also the co-founder and former director of The Village of Arts and Humanities that has brought to life over 200 abandoned lots in the most distressed districts of North Philadelphia.
When I see brokenness, poverty, and crime in inner cities,
I also see the enormous potential and readiness for
transformation and rebirth. We are creating an art form that
comes from the heart and reflects the pain and sorrow of people's lives.
It also expresses joy, beauty, and love.
~ Lily Yeh
Lily Yeh is an acclaimed visual artist who has worked with students, community leaders, and teachers in Canada, China, Ecuador, Ghana, Kenya, Syria, Italy and in cities and neighborhoods across the United States. Yeh is considered one of America's most innovative urban designers and social pioneers. Awakening Creativity is her first, much-awaited book.
In Awakening Creativity, Yeh facilitates the art-making process for students of The Dandelion School, the only nonprofit organization in Beijing that serves the children of poor migrant workers coming from 24 provinces. Yeh worked with hundreds of students, teachers, volunteers and workers to transform the school's main campus with mural painting, mosaics, and environmental sculpture. Students were involved in every aspect of the art-making, which has become central to the school's curriculum and well-being.
Lily Yeh founded Barefoot Artists, a volunteer organization that uses the power of art to revitalize impoverished communities. Yeh is also the co-founder and former director of The Village of Arts and Humanities that has brought to life over 200 abandoned lots in the most distressed districts of North Philadelphia.
When I see brokenness, poverty, and crime in inner cities,
I also see the enormous potential and readiness for
transformation and rebirth. We are creating an art form that
comes from the heart and reflects the pain and sorrow of people's lives.
It also expresses joy, beauty, and love.
~ Lily Yeh
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Lily Yeh is a global angel who not only believes in the power of people engaged, but inspires and ignites them through her own creative fire. Lily Yeh changed my life completely and if you read this book, your life as you know it will begin to change, as well, through the vibrancy of art in action called love.
~ Terry Tempest Williams, Finding Beauty in a Broken World
An inspiration for anyone who cares about kids, beauty and reinventing education to ignite greater joy, expression and leadership. At once visionary and eminently useful and practical, Lily Yeh celebrates the profound capacity of art to seed and support human transformation.
- Matthew Fox, Ph.D., Creativity: Where the Divine and the Human Meet and The A.W.E. Project: Reinventing Education, Reinventing the Human
Lily Yeh is a global angel who not only believes in the power of people engaged, but inspires and ignites them through her own creative fire. Lily Yeh changed my life completely and if you read this book, your life as you know it will begin to change, as well, through the vibrancy of art in action called love.
~ Terry Tempest Williams, Finding Beauty in a Broken World
An inspiration for anyone who cares about kids, beauty and reinventing education to ignite greater joy, expression and leadership. At once visionary and eminently useful and practical, Lily Yeh celebrates the profound capacity of art to seed and support human transformation.
- Matthew Fox, Ph.D., Creativity: Where the Divine and the Human Meet and The A.W.E. Project: Reinventing Education, Reinventing the Human
