Inspiration
One of the very first art jobs I ever had was as a gallery assistant at Spaces Gallery in Cleveland, Ohio. I was only 19 years old, it paid a small handful of dollars an hour — but I seriously felt like I won the jackpot!
Not only did I get to be around real working artists all the time, but this job taught me so many incredible skills.
CONTINUE READINGLast week the artists in my IGNITE Online Intensive and I were having a juicy discussion on how play shows up for us in our creative practice and in our businesses.
Personally, I said, I rarely use art as my way of play. Instead I find that my favorite form of play tends to involve being active outdoors.
But then after our call was over, I started to reflect more upon this idea of play and realized that I do lean into art as play. It just happens in ways that I wasn’t formerly defining as “play”.
CONTINUE READINGHey! Did you miss the journal party with Andrea Schroeder and I today?
No problemo!
Below you will find two ways to catch the replay.
But I’ll warn ya — I do very little art journaling (as you can see from the finished photo above).
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