Ellen Handler Spitz, honors college professor of visual arts, will be a featured speaker at an August 11 Erikson Institute Creativity Seminar at the Austin Riggs Center on the subject of “The Brightening Glance: Creativity and Childhood.” “The brightening glance” is a phrase taken from the title of a Spitz book in which she “returns us to the vibrant experience of childhood to explain how the imagination emerges and develops.” The seminar will explore questions such as: What is childhood creativity and what does it tell us about the creative process in general? Are the roots of adult creativity in childhood, …