Creative Corner
Creative Corner: DIY holiday gifts
December 9, 2024By: Cindy Wang, Peak Associate Get ready, because it’s the winter season and the holidays are almost upon us. What better way to spend the holidays than by giving your friends and family gifts under a Christmas tree? Buying gifts can be expensive, so giving your loved ones heartfelt, hand-made knick knacks can make gifting fun and economically-efficient. Here are five DIY holiday gift ideas that you can try out this year. Clay ornaments Creating clay ornaments you can hang up a Christmas tree not only sounds fun, but is also a great way to bring out your artistic side.…
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Creative corner: The incredible art of sumi-e
November 7, 2024By: Hana Hoffman, Peak Associate This past month, I got to learn about a type of art that uses just black ink, water, and a single brush size. It’s a traditional Japanese form of art called sumi-e. “Sumi” means “black…
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Creative Corner: Cosplaying to get into the Halloween spirit
October 30, 2024By: Cindy Wang, SFU Student I’m a digital artist who loves to draw and design my own original characters. It’s been a passion of mine since I was a teenager. However, ever since the COVID-19 pandemic hit, my mental health…
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Creative Corner: Learning to sew let me reclaim my sense of style
May 12, 2024By: Sahej Kaur Bhalla, SFU Student Imagine going to the mall and seeing an amazing outfit on one of the mannequins, but when you go to try it on, there is something slightly off about the way it fits. You…
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Creative Corner: Automata
February 27, 2024By: Zobia Khalid, SFU Student As an art student, I used to be consumed by fear. It followed me around like a putrid, burdensome shadow wrapping its arms around my neck, leaving me unable to think or breathe. I was…
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Creative Corner: Five economic ways to spice up your home this fall
September 28, 2023By: Saije Rusimovici, Staff Writer I’ve spent the last few weeks upping my home decorating game. There’s something about cute and colourful organizers in my workspace and a string of fairy lights over my bed that makes a home feel…
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Creative Corner: Sculpting reminds me art is about impulse and process
June 16, 2023By: Kelly Chia, Editor-in-Chief I’m sure many people, like me, see creativity as a luxury they can rarely indulge in during adulthood. I can’t count how many unfinished projects pile up in my brain, waiting for the day I declare…
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Creative Corner: Poetry and its therapeutic properties
February 17, 2023By: Jeeya Parasbhai Khavadia, SFU Student Poems, stories, and other types of creative writing have piqued my interest since I was a child. I used to tear poems from magazines and place them inside my school textbooks to lift myself…
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Creative Corner: Acrylic pour reignited my creativity
January 23, 2023By: Farah Messan, SFU Student At the height of pandemic restrictions in 2020, I had become consumed by loneliness and felt an insatiable thirst for excitement and exploration — all of which seemed, at the time, impossible within the confinements…
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Creative Corner: My 2023 vision board
January 10, 2023By: Petra Chase, Arts & Culture Editor The winter break holds the liminal space before a new year that always inspires introspection, but this year I decided against writing resolutions. I often feel pressured by productivity culture to set rigid…
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