You're Already Working

You're Already Working: Here Is Your Creative Practice invites readers to enter a deep exploration of the artmaking life. With its encouraging mantra "you're already working," it

instills confidence by encouraging readers to acknowledge their own excursions into creativity.

Using personal experiences from the author's rich and varied creative work and high-level teaching background, You're Already Working guides readers in developing a sustainable and meaningful creative practice. Through exercises, insights, and contemporary-world observations, this book offers actionable ways to enhance productivity, overcome setbacks, and push artistic boundaries.

Wendy Richmond, a respected multidisciplinary artist, writer, and educator at institutions such as MIT, Rhode Island School of Design, and Harvard Graduate School of Education, engages readers with a writing voice that is personal: sometimes vulnerable, sometimes authoritative, always curious and empathetic.

You're Already Working illuminates crucial aspects of the creative process-from exposing raw work to radically changing mediums and venues, to delving into historical research, to sharing grief through physicality, to confronting and employing new tools like generative AI. Richmond's background in the nexus of art and technology in education, business, and art delivers a realistic approach to making work, both personal and professional. Her collaborations with dancers, writers, and software programmers, as well as her teaching, have prompted artistic creativity in technological developments. Richmond shares her methods of developing and maintaining a creative practice,

emphasizing both "off the wall" thinking and tangible results.