ABOUT
Stockwell is a creativity coach, writer, teacher, and artist. Her primary goal is to inspire others to Do Their ARt!
Bernadette Stockwell, PhD, wrote her dissertation on creativity and its connection to emotions. Since 2005, she has coached clients in Spain, Ireland, and South Africa. More recently, she worked with a local physician to publish her own Kindle book and complete a 50,000 word novel.
Stockwell teaches College Writing at UMass Lowell & Fitchburg State University AND she loves her job.
AWARDS
2024 Do Your ARt! workshop support in part by the Northern Berkshire Cultural Council, and the Bellingham, Burlington, Carver, Deerfield, Pittsfield, Stoneham, and Walpole Cultural Councils, all local agencies supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.
2023 Do Your Art! workshops supported in part by Acushnet, Buckland, Chicopee, Dennis, East Bridgewater, Gardner, Harvard, Haverhill, Lawrence, Manchester-by-the-Sea, Norton, and Revere.
2022 Do Your ARt! workshops supported in part by Concord, Holbrook, NorfolK, Pembroke, Townsend, Westboro. Wilbraham, Wrentham, West Brookfield, and Lunenburg.
2021 Do Your ARt! workshops supported in part by Acton/Boxborough, Bernardston, Chatham, Carlisle, Clinton, Chelmsford, Littleton, and Dunstable.
Littleton Cultural Council 2011, 2014 Grant recipient for Littleton Portraits.
Nominated: University of Massachusetts Student Government Assoc. Teacher of the Year 2008-09, 2009-10.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Circle of Success: American Writers & Artists Institute; Professional Writers Alliance; National Council of Teachers of English; Board of Directors- The Claflin Hill Symphony Orchestra.
Stockwell’s debut book
Have you ever started a project but failed to finish it?
Have you invested in supplies, signed up for expensive courses and workshops, and hired coaches and mentors with good intentions but lost interest after a week? A day?
Do Your ARt! 10 Simple Steps to Enhance Your Creativity and Elevate Your Mood provides hopeful artists/makers/creatives with details to strengthen your art-making in ANY genre.
Each step builds on the previous action, scaffolding toward success. The fringe benefit of this upward movement in a positive direction elevates mood.
Your creativity relies on constant motivation to progress from 'pondering' to the 'performance' of your art product.
This book provides all of the details for this process.
Interview with the author
The Universal Nature of Art and Creativity
Claire: I love how universal you made the steps in Do Your ARt! so they can apply to any creative outlet, not just traditional performing arts forms. How is your perception of art and creativity shaped by your experience as a seamstress at your custom drapery business?
Bernadette: I often did not finish my projects when I started sewing. The exciting thing about sewing is the potential of the whole cloth. Walking into a fabric store, surrounded by bolts and bolts of uncut fabric, seeing the colors, the patterns, the textures, anything is possible. The sumptuous silk charmeuse could be a luxurious nightgown, camisole, or Victorian blouse. The ecru linen could be a three-piece suit, a tablecloth, or a christening gown. The cotton calico could be a prairie dress, a queen-size bed quilt, or a charming crop top.
