Awakening Creativity: Dandelion School Blossoms
Expert Reviews"Creativity is a certain flare of spirit that is truly unlike anything else.Awakening Creativity: Dandelion School Blossomsis a call for social change through creativity from Lily Yeh, as she shares her own drive to make the world a better place through art and tells her story of turning a wasted factory space in Beijing into something that is so much more - the Dandelion school, aimed at the local children to give them inspiration for a better future. With a certain dedication,Awakening Creativitycomes with a powerful message that definitely should not be overlooked."—Midwest Book Review, 2011"Art is in all of us, and the best seek to encourage it in others.Awakening Creativity: Dandelion School Blossomsis a chronicle of author Lily Yeh's journeys, offered as an example for encourage art all over the world. Focusing on her campaign in China, where she got an abandoned factory converted to encourage local middle school students, and helped them find artistic expression. Presented in full color and plenty of example art works throughout,Awakening Creativityis a choice pick for any educational collection dedicated to promoting the arts."—Midwest Book Review, 2012"As a case study, Awakening Creativity is both inspirational and detailed... At every step from concept to completion, Yeh recruits members of the school community, including students, as genuine collaborators in the artistic process. The result is a series of works that reverberate throughout the lives of their co-creators. The art beautifies the campus, but its impact is far deeper: it gives students the skills and the inspiration to be active co-creators of their own lives."—Joseph Hart,Public Art Review"Yeh’s book should be used as a model in run-down schools everywhere. It should be used in community development training and in every school of design. Her work is the best of what art can do to build the human spirit and make a community place. Thank you, Lily, for your work and for documenting it so carefully in this book."—Susan Goltsman,Children, Youth and Environments"It is not often that a book can transport the reader to another place and time, but Yeh has done this successfully. By including color images on every page, the reader gets lost in the school and community and makes readers feel part of the project from the beginning. Yeh tells a captivating story."—Carolyn Brown Treadon,Journal of Art for Life