"the activity of making" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it when you want to describe a task or project that requires a person to create something. For example, "The activity of making a birdhouse is a great way to spend an afternoon."
This, naturally enough, includes the activity of making art itself.
As an art, Mr. Newman shows, alchemy was involved in the activity of making things.
Database tuning is the activity of making a database application run more quickly.
"Mapping the Studio" is fairly typical of Mr. Nauman's work, insofar as it explores issues relating to the activity of making art and the role of the artist.
First, in my opinion the activity of doing business, or the activity of making a profit, ante at 8, is a form of property.
Mindedness, Anderson argues 'is the activity of making the world a home.' The writing is fluid, the ideas compelling, and the overall vision unique.
He has the natural storyteller's gift - but more important, he has the power to lend an extraordinary glamour to the activities of making love and making poetry.
Kelty refers to the geek public as a 'recursive public', since it includes the activities of making, maintaining, and modifying a series of technical and legal layers from applications to protocols to the physical infrastructures of waves and wires.
In my new book, Motion, Emotion, and Love: The Nature of Artistic Performance, I argue that the musicians' activity of making the sounds is an activity of artistic creation.
There was a period in which I considered becoming a filmmaker — I was very tempted, because in some ways movies are my first love — but then I realized that the communal activity of filmmaking was very different from the solitary activity of making a painting".
For example, the everyday activity of making a bed includes parts such as "removing the dirty sheets" and "putting on the pillow cases".
