Are you using the wrong side of your brain? Intuitive research workshop will help you find out.

Artist Sibyl Kempson will present an intuitive research workshop for creatives in all media, visual and performing artists, writers and composers from 5 to 8 p.m. on Tuesday, March 3, at East Stroudsburg University’s Kemp Library, 160 Smith St., East Stroudsburg.

Ideas to be considered include: What is your relationship to your research? Does it feel like work? Drudgery even? Do you get stuck? Do you get bored? Is it, for you, a necessary evil? Are you using the wrong side of your brain?

“This workshop takes place in the library, reconnecting us in a creative way with our precious public collections of physical books,” Kempson said. “Here we surf the pathways of chance and swim in the currents of the collective unconscious, for the purpose of gathering source material that will stimulate our minds and reinvigorate our projects already in-process.”

A recipient of a 2018 PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award for American Playwright at Mid-Career, Kempson began developing her own pieces at Little Theater and Dixon Place. She created the 7 Daughters of Eve theater company at the Martin E. Segal Center at the City University of New York. The company’s inaugural production was "Let Us Now Praise Susan Sontag." "12 Shouts to the Ten Forgotten Heavens, a three-year cycle of rituals for the Whitney Museum of American Art, began on the vernal equinox in March 2016, and recurred on every solstice and equinox through December 2018.

Registration for the workshop, sponsored by ESU’s art+design department, is open to all creatives. There is a $15 fee for non-ESU participants. To register email esuarts@esu.edu.

The workshop is supported in part by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.