Recently, I found myself going through some old documents and 1 came upon a mimeographed volume: The Conference on Creativity: A Report the Rockefeller Foundation, edited by Manuel Barkan and Ross L. Mooney, The Ohio State University, 1953. It is over 55 years since this conference and although some references related to this gathering can be found in the art education literature, for the most part the papers included in this report have gone unnoticed.
Some time around 1950, a group of professors from Ohio State University, who represented different areas of study, engaged in informal discussions involving their shared interests about the meaning and nature of creativity. As is …