Inside the Art: Exploring the Creative Mind

May 17, 2025 | 1:00pm TO 2:30pm
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2025-05-17 13:00:00 2025-05-17 14:30:00 Inside the Art: Exploring the Creative Mind <p>A workshop with Cognitive Science Professor Sasha Sherman, merging art and science with her research around the effects of art on cognition.</p> America/Los_Angeles public

Join us at Oxy Arts for a special art experience that invites you to do more than just observe—become part of a live exploration into the nature of creativity. Visitors will engage with the thought-provoking works created by Oxy's talented graduating studio art seniors, and take part in a brief, interactive survey designed to capture how the art on display resonates on a personal level. Your responses will contribute to a larger research project examining the fascinating connection between artistic expression and audience perception. After the viewing, stay for a compelling talk by Professor Sasha Sherman (Cognitive Science) that pulls back the curtain on the creative process—exploring how artists think, feel, and create, and what happens in our minds when we experience their work. It's a unique opportunity to take part in a study at the crossroads of art and cognitive science. 

wide shot of Oxy Arts gallery with the exhibition Stretching Between on view