Fun Fridays: Doodling

Fun Fridays offer a refreshing mid-day break from work to indulge in physical, mental, or creative activity.

Doodle Escapes are five minutes doodle breaks. Whether you’re at your desk for 10 hours on virtual calls or a student feeling stressed out or parent who is looking for ways to engage your kids—these creative exercises give you a different way to change your mood, de-stress, challenge your brain and just relax in a new way. These 5-minute exercises from instructor Deborah Putnoi, MEd, helped attendees take a couple of minutes to de-stress, jumpstart their creative brains, and simply take a different kind of break.

Deborah Putnoi, MEd, is a visual artist, educator and researcher. Putnoi has an M.Ed. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, a 5th Year Graduate Degree from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and a B.A./B.F.A. from Tufts University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts (joint degree program). She has shown her work in solo and group exhibitions nationally to critical acclaim and her work is included in many significant collections. She has taught in many settings over the past ten years including elementary and secondary schools, universities, and community outreach organizations. Putnoi also worked for many years as a researcher with Howard Gardner at Project Zero working on research projects focusing on community art centers, museums and school learning. Putnoi is the author of The Drawing Mind and is currently producing a film series to accompany the book.