Massachusetts College of Art and Design - Palette and Pen Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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“In the creative state a man is taken out of himself. He lets down as it were a bucket into his subconscious and draws up something which is normally beyond his reach. He mixes this thing with his normal experiences, and out ©f this mixture he makes a work of art. Creativity has been man’s key to the future relying primarily on his ability of transcending conventional patterns of thought. St springs not only from the conscious but from the subconscious as well, the subconscious being the most active of tho creative imagination from whence comes the arrangement end correlation of ideas into a pattern. The concept that the organizing power of life, manifest in the mind as well as in the body, is the truly creative element in which creativity thus becomes an attribute of life. With dedication to one’s work, the mastery of the medium passes from the conscious to the subconscious — only then can one give the impression of spontaneity. An artist is an explorer: he has to begin by self-discovery and by observation of his own procedure. After that there must be no evidence of constrain! in his work.

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The class of 1963 dedi- cates this yearbook to Miss Marguerite R. Franklin, who joined the Massachusetts Col- lege of Art faculty in 1946, teaching psychology at first, and later when the oppor- tunity came, sociology. Miss Franklin graduated from Wheelock College, then known as Wheelock School and went on to Columbia University to obtain her Bach- elors and Masters degrees. From this point on she taught at many different colleges: Wheelock, where she was first supervisor of practice teaching and later appointed Dean; Mills College in New York; Lesley College, where she was appointed President. Outside of the teaching field she has come in contact with many diversified occu- pations — hospital work, business work, speech work, and settlement work. With all this in mind, one can come to know and under- stand this woman who com- mands respect from students of present and past years — a woman who gives freely and willingly her time and concern to anyone who de- sires it.