You're Already Working

You’re Already Working: Here Is Your Creative Practice invites readers to enter a deep exploration of the art-making life. Its encouraging mantra “you’re already working” 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. It 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. With exercises, insights, and contemporary-world observations, this book offers actionable ways to enhance productivity, overcome setbacks, and push artistic boundaries.

Wendy Richmond’s career spans design, studio art, writing, teaching, and collaboration at WGBH, MIT, Rhode Island School of Design, Harvard University, and International Center of Photography. Her work has been exhibited internationally and supported by fellowships from MacDowell, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center. She is the author of Design & Technology: Erasing the Boundaries; Overneath; and Art Without Compromise.

Author Biography

Wendy Richmond’s career spans design, studio art, writing, teaching, and collaboration at WGBH, MIT, Rhode Island School of Design, Harvard University, and the International Center of Photography. Her work has been exhibited internationally and supported by fellowships from MacDowell, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center. She is the author of Design & Technology: Erasing the Boundaries; Overneath; and Art Without Compromise.