Rose Simpson

Creativity Begins by Listening to What Wants to Be Made

In a TED conversation with Debbie Millman, artist Rose B. Simpson argues that creativity is less a search for style than a practice of listening. Drawing on her upbringing in Santa Clara Pueblo, her family’s ceramic traditions, and her work with lowrider cars, public sculpture and clay vessels, Simpson describes art as embedded in ordinary life: a way to build agency, attend to place and hear what objects, materials and environments are asking to become.