Week 4: BookFace Challenge
Hello, Creative people! It's time for Week 4 of the #ghhnvcon20 Creativity Challenge!
Your prompt for this week is to complete the "Book Face" Challenge in as creative a manner as you can!
Click here for examples of bookface!

Week 3: Create a surprising mini museum exhibit
Hey creative people! It's officially Week 3 of the #ghhnvcon20 Creativity Challenge and this week is all about re-framing and re-interpreting the objects in your home/office to create a surprising mini museum exhibit.
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Have you ever looked at an object in your home and wondered how future archaeologists might interpret it? Maybe you always wanted an excuse to display your favorite t-shirt in an exhibit as the treasure it truly is.
Watch the video to see the full challenge and how to participate.

Week 2: Build a Paper Tower (guest challenge from ArchForKids)
Attention Creative People! Are you ready to find out what's in store for Week 2 of the #ghhnvcon20 #creativityincubator Creativity Challenge? It's a fun one!

This week we asked ArchForKids-architecture for children to propose a challenge that will help activate your creativity and challenge your architecture and engineering knowledge. Using only 10 sheets of paper, tape, and scissors you are tasked to construct an architectural tower while focusing on height, stability and strength. You also have a 15 minute time limit.

(Bonus points this week if you measure your tower and if it's stable enough to support an item heavier than a sheet of paper!)

Each week during the GHHN 2020 Virtual Conference (#ghhnvcon20), we'll be issuing a Creativity Challenge to help you exercise your creative thinking skills. Post your completed challenges to Instagram and use #theghhn #nyscasupported and #ghhnvcon20 and be sure to tag @theghhn and @nyscouncilonthearts. 

Instagram set to private, or don't have an Instagram account? Not to worry - email your submission to ghhnvconcibooth@gmail.com!

Week 1: 30 Circles
Greetings Creative People! The NYSCA/GHHN #creativityincubator Creativity Instagram Challenge is officially live and open for submissions!

Here's how to participate (and yes, you can partake even if you haven't attended #ghhnvcon20):
1. Watch the video 
2. Download the 30 Circles Sheet below or from here: https://tinyurl.com/y2cld72f
3. Upload your completed challenge to Instagram and tag @theGHHN and New York State Council on the Arts, use #creativityincubator , #nyscasupported, and #ghhnvcon20. If you don't have Instagram, that's ok, just e-mail your submission to ghhnvconCIbooth@gmail.com
4. Watch the hashtags to see other submissions and check back next weekto see what your second challenge will be!

For this Creativity Challenge, we want you to take work of art - either one from your site or one you can find online (and credit of course!) - and then reimagine/recreate it using unconventional materials. These can be office supplies, or food, or even children's toys.

For inspiration:  check out these classic food paintings, these artistic masterpieces recreated as food, or these "Recreations of Famous Paintings of Myths Using Only My Children’s Toys". 

Bonus points if you recreate the work of art using yourself, like these folks:

As always, don't forget to post your challenge photo on social media using the hashtag #creativityincubator and post in the CI Community on FB, or on Twitter or Instagram - that’s it! Remember to tag GHHN and NYSCA in the posts so we can see them! (GHHN - Greater Hudson Heritage Network, @theGHHN, NYSCA - New York State Council on the Arts, @NYSCArts)

This month's challenge is short and sweet...six words, to be exact. It comes to us courtesy of Ernest Hemingway, who famously wrote "For Sale - baby shoes, never worn".  Now, we want you to craft a six word story about an object in your collection. Get the details here.

Remember - all you have to do is complete the task, and take a photo to share on social media - this can be a photo of your team doing the challenge, and/or whatever product happened to come from the challenge itself. Use the hashtag #creativityincubator - and post in the CI Community on FB, or on Twitter or Instagram - that’s it! Remember to tag GHHN and NYSCA in the posts so we can see them! (GHHN - Greater Hudson Heritage Network, @theGHHN, NYSCA - New York State Council on the Arts, @NYSCArts)