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Join us for inspiration from a variety of artists, creators and makers. We’ll explore their artful adventures and learn some things to apply to our own creative journeys. Different passions, different stories, it is sure to be an adventure! We'll also sprinkle in some basic arts and crafts info along the way! Whether you enjoy creating for pleasure, find it therapeutic, or just want to listen to the chat, you are sure to find some interesting conversations! Subscribe today!
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Suzanne Redmond talks with artists about their artwork, techniques, and how they’ve created a successful business. With her background in accounting, finance, and exhibiting art, she knows what it takes to get your artwork seen and sold. She’s chosen artists who are working their business – exhibiting their art, teaching others, and finding unusual opportunities. You’ll hear from some unsung artists, who are extremely talented and creative, and hopefully you’ll look up their work and be insp ...
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Dada, Deceit, Darkness and Delight with Dr. Dilworth
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Dr. Jacqueline Dilworth is a a poet and writer of poems who plays, writes them as well as stories and non-fiction, and translates old French texts. She's also a musician who uses her musical skills in writing, performance art, spoken word, and to create radio shows of eclectic and free form music and spoken word on The Jackalope Hour out of Beautif…
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Mapping Place and Time with LisaRuth Elliott
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LisaRuth Elliott is a visual artist using found material to create her paper collages. She is also a fiber artist, weaver, experimenter of plant dyes on textiles, and public muralist. Inspired by beauty in the textures and patterns around her and what has been cast aside, she transforms the banal into new and dynamic combinations showcasing human o…
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Distillations, and Provocation w/ Karina Blackheart
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CW: mentions of addiction, recovery, swearing Karina Blackheart is a Writer, teacher, mentor, ritualist--intent on elevating our daily experience from mundane, ordinary and irritating to meaningful, delightful, nd sacred. Whether she's weaving words, provoking, kneeding bread, walking the dog, or leading or teaching others how to lead a firewalking…
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Breaking Out of the Blind Grind with Lisamaria Martinez and Serena Olsen
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LisaMaria Martinez (LM) is a blind mom living in the SF bay Area. She rocks a weekly FB Live episode with her bestie, Blind broad Serena Olsen, called The Blind Grind. She loves breaking down origami and and loves to teach it and other artforms non-visually to other blind people, and not blind people. LM also makes her own beauty products such as l…
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In This Episode we speak with, Sheldon Epps who has directed major productions on and off Broadway, in London and at many theatres across America. In addition, he has had an active television career helming some of the classic shows of recent years, Frasier, Girlfriends, Friends, Everybody Loves Raymond, Sister Sister and more. He was the artistic …
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Death With Beauty... Special Halloween Episode with Miss Post Mortem
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Miss Post Mortem is a Mortician, aesthetician, costume/ theatrical make-up specialist, and Baker, who brings care and dedication to her craft of transforming loved ones's experiences with their dead, through skill and heart. We talk aaaallll about death. This needs ALL the content Warnings, throughout. For mature audiences only. Explicit depictions…
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Textile Compositions and Decompositions with Wendy Bliss
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Wendy Bliss is a Textile artist, Master Costumer, Instructor, and Scholar of all things fiber arts who began sewing very young, and doing her own patterning by the time she was 14 - fiber has always spoken clearly. Her work includes historical costume/ cosplay and dyeing for over thirty years and she cut her teeth on historical German Renaissance e…
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Finding Your Audience with Costello Darling- double length
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Costello Darling identifies as a maker more than an artist and sees the ways things COULD be done. and questions the way 'Most People' do things is often unknown to him. They make things that he wants personally and that 'Most People' don't seem to know to want yet (because they don't exist) like a ukulele with the size and strings of a guitar. ** …
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T. Thorn Coyle is a multidisciplinary artist, poet, photographer, teacher, singer, dancer, non-fiction and Now FIction writer who has written a cozy fiction series and is about to launch the kickstarter to finish the Pride Street Paranormal Cozy Mystery series: http://kck.st/3zAYDyE August 9, 2022 In this episode we talk about the why of which kind…
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Carnegie Hall at 2, and Professional Childhood with Judy Wong
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In this episode my guest is lifelong New York Artist, Judy Wong and We talk about the essential human need to be creative, and how "Art is life and life is art" as well as growing up in NY as a child professional, bullying and identity, formal and informal arts education, escaping performance to find what we love about it when we choose to do it fo…
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Directing Political Theater with Paul Mason Barnes
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Paul Mason Barnes is an accomplished theatre director specializing in Shakespeare (though he also directs musicals, classics, and new work). He is a teacher, and arts administrator (Artistic Director, Education Director, etc.). Most recently, he has also ventured into publishing with a memoir about his experience as a grassroots fundraiser for Pete…
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Finding Truth in Theater with Lillith era
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Lillith Era is a Sapphic actor, musician, dancer, poet, writer, and all-around performer of multiple disciplines. Based in the Bay Area, Lillith has close ties to San Francisco's American Conservatory Theatre and the Berkeley Playhouse. Most recently, Lillith could be seen in the West Coast premiere of Celine Song’s “Endlings” at the Oakland Theatr…
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Performance in the Den of Desire with Cholla Soledad
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Cholla Soledad is a Fat, indigenous, disabled, queer, and her experiences are filtered through those lenses. She’s an academic dedicated to the pedagogy of experience. She teaches her witchcraft apprentices in the same way. She is an initiate of Anderson (Old) Faery witchcraft and lives a magical life in Oakland with two friends, two cats, two chic…
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After four years and 260 episodes, I am ending The Left Brain Artist podcast. You may go back to any podcast app or my website to listen to any of the episodes you have missed. Thank you for listening to The Left Brain Artist podcast. Show notes for all of these episodes can be found on my website at https://suzanneredmond.com/my-podcast/list-of-ar…
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After four years and 260 episodes, I am ending The Left Brain Artist podcast. All episodes will remain on podcast apps as well as on my website. Show notes for all of these episodes can be found on my website at https://suzanneredmond.com/my-podcast/list-of-artists/By Suzanne Redmond
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#258 Naomi Vona: Altering Vintage and Contemporary Found Images
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Naomi Vona is an Italian artist based in London. You may know her by her Instagram name, which is @mariko_koda. Her artwork combines her many interests, including photography, collage, and illustration. She uses found vintage and contemporary photos, which she alters, creating a new interpretation of the original shots. Using paint pens, paper, was…
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Images of Future Memory with Annie Holland
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In this episode, I speak with Photographer, ceramicist, digital artist and sculptor, Annie Holland, who for over twenty years has been photographing the wonderful, the absurd and beautiful images of people, places and their daily lives worldwide. she tends to venture down the road less travelled, and years ago ended up in Japan, where her passion f…
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#257 Tamara Laporte: Mixed Media and Wellness with Willowing Arts
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Tamara Laporte is a celebrated mixed media artist and art teacher with Willowing Arts who has been running her own creative business since 2008. Her work can be described as mixed media folk art with a focus on magical realism. Her art classes are a combination of art techniques as well as self-development. Tam is the inventor and creator of Life B…
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Carrying Traditions W/ Julie Henigan
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Julie Henigan is a performing musician (vocals, guitar, banjo, dulcimer, and fiddle) of primarily traditional Irish and old-time American material, as well as original songs and instrumentals, with one CD ("American Stranger"), tracks on other albums (including "Sean-Nós cois Locha"), and two guitar books with Mel Bay. Julie is also a folklorist an…
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#256 Rachelle Eason: Maker of Pottery, Plant-Stained Paper, and Books
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Florida artist Rachelle Eason makes two kinds of art. She makes hand-built and wheel-thrown pottery. Her stoneware is both functional and decorative. Rachelle also makes handmade plant-stained paper. She developed the techniques for this unusual art form herself. The paper is then used for handmade books, stationery, and paper packets. With over 25…
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Lacey Crime is a mural artist who lives in Maine. She previously lived in North Carolina, and that’s where she got her start painting murals. Lacey brings your visions to life through custom murals, either at your home or inside or outside your business. She specializes in interactive murals, where the viewer can be a part of the scene, capturing t…
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#254 Nathalie Kalbach: Creative Jumpstarts and Artful Adventures
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Artist Nathalie Kalbach is from Germany but has lived in the U.S. for 13 years. She’s a painter with a favorite subject of old buildings. Nathalie researches the building, its history, and who may have lived or worked there. This research affects her color and design choices. She also uses an art journal, to test out ideas, try new techniques, and …
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Nourishment and Restoration with Scott Rowe
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Scott Rowe is a bit of a contemporary Renaissance Man. He's a cook, a teacher, a healer, a community advocate, a writer, and many other things besides. But one of his great passions is fthe art of person-to-person hospitality: and of making someone feel comfortable, safe, and restored after being his guest for a while. In this episode we look into …
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#253 Kristin Miller: Artist and College Professor
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Kristin Miller is an artist from South Florida. She’s also an art professor at Palm Beach State College. Kristin teaches art appreciation, as well as design, illustration, and sculpture. Her own artwork often starts with painting, but then she adds 3D elements. She creates her own papers from natural objects, and sculpts using everyday items like c…
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Lea Zalinskis is an Illustrator from, ( actually from) Berkeley, CA, working primarily with hand-cut paper, photography and , more recently delving into the world of animation. In this episode we talk in depth about materials, favorite papers and adhesives, how to get dust out of a framing job (not frame- jobs), ins and outs of art school expectati…
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#252 Rachel Awes: Psychologist, Artist, and Author
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Rachel Awes is a practicing psychologist, artist, and author. Her books include words of encouragement, reflections, and quotes, combined with her illustrations. She draws in a doodle-like manner, using pen and paint. Rachel sells her illustrations through Etsy, and you can also see them on her Instagram and website. We talk about her art style as …
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#251 Lisa Agaran: Wabi Sabi Art and Workshops
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Lisa Agaran is an artist who creates in the wabi sabi style. She uses mixed media, including found objects. She also teaches and helps artists with their own creativity from her site called True Creativity Within. Her workshops are online, and you can take them live or recorded. Subjects include making oracle cards, learning how to create your own …
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Into the Lotus Blossom with Vicki Burns
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Vicki Burns is a jazz vocalist and music teacher living and performing in New York City. She has been singing her whole life and made a decision to be a musician when she was 6 years old on a cold snowy afternoon in Maine. She is excited to release her third studio album, “Lotus Blossom Days” in April ‘22! In episode eight, we talk loving our bandm…
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#250 Roxanne Evans Stout: Artist, Teacher, Wanderer, and Dreamer
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Roxanne Evans Stout is a painter and collage and assemblage artist from Southern Oregon. Her art is influenced by the forest in her backyard and the river below. She uses paint, natural materials, fabric, and bits of metal and found objects for her art. Roxanne teaches workshops online and in person, and is looking forward to her retreat in Morocco…
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#249 Helen Hiebert: Paper Artist, Author, Instructor, and Podcaster
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Helen Hiebert is a paper artist in Colorado. Her mission is to share her love of hand papermaking and paper crafts with newcomers and to expand the knowledge of experienced artists through artwork, online and in-person classes, retreats, videos, how-to books, a blog, and a podcast. Helen uses handmade paper as her primary medium to create sculpture…
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Poetry in Everything with Mark Fitzpatrick Part 2
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Mark Fitzpatrick is an Irish writer, poet, literary scholar and professor who writes fiction and essays, and is preparing the publication of a Gothic fin de siècle thriller, as well as a book about myth. He's also an eccentric living on his family domaine in the Bordeaux region of France. CW- swearing, mentions of substance use. In part 1 we discus…
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Poetry in Everything with Mark Fitzpatrick Part 1
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Mark Fitzpatrick is an Irish writer, poet, literary scholar and professor who writes fiction and essays, and is preparing the publication of a Gothic fin de siècle thriller, as well as a book about myth. He's also an eccentric living on his family domaine in the Bordeaux region of France. CW- swearing, mentions of substance use. In part 1 we discus…
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#248 Dawn DeVries Sokol: Author, Artist, and Illustrator
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Artist Dawn DeVries Sokol used her journalism degree to edit newspapers and design magazines. That lead to designing books and later writing and illustrating her own books. Her latest books are The Postcard Project and The Planner Book. Dawn also paints custom pet portraits and teaches online art classes. Her workshops can be found on her website a…
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#247 Jessica Hughes: Artist, Writer, and Creative Leader
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Jessica Hughes is an award-winning artist, author, art business coach and single mom of 7. As CEO of Jess Hughes Media & Fine Art, she leads multiple arms of the brand to promote her own paintings and to offer online courses and programs to artists looking to grow authentic, heart-centered and thriving businesses. Jess also co-authored the Internat…
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Pareidolia and Analog-Digital Fusion with Leah Shane Dixon
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Leah Shane Dixon is an LA-based artist working with visual music, multimedia collage and a lifelong investigation of color theory. Their work has been shown at venues in Los Angeles, NYC, and Malaysia. In Episode 7 with Leah Shane Dixon, we explore the value of Abstract art, I learn the word: Pareidolia, we look at the fusion of analog and computer…
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#246 Kiana Jones: Artist and Creator of Happening Hands Marketplace
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Artist Kiana Jones makes art under her middle name as Rokita Art. Kiana uses watercolor, pens, and embroidery to make beautiful abstracts. Some are large and some are very small and she mounts them into glass lockets to make jewelry. Kiana has also started an online handmade marketplace called Happening Hands. She invites other artists to list thei…
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#245 Erik Abel: Modern Surf Art, Animal Art, and Abstracts
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Erik Abel is an artist, surfer, and world traveler. He lives in Southern Oregon, an area I know quite well because my mom and her family are from there. Before settling in Ashland, Oregon with his family, Erik surfed and traveled all over the South Pacific. Always sketching, he worked to develop his own unique style, which includes images of ocean …
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Fio Gede Parma is a brilliant, warm, funny, and deeply thoughtful Witch, and Artist living in the southern Hemisphere, Themes: Magic as Art, Art as Presence, Presence as Connection, Connection as Intimacy, Intimacy as Mystery, Mystery as Magic. This conversation takes place in two parts, In the first: we explore dual and third cultures, witchery as…
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Fio Gede Parma is a brilliant, warm, funny, and deeply thoughtful Witch, and Artist living in the southern Hemisphere, Themes: Magic as Art, Art as Presence, Presence as Connection, Connection as Intimacy, Intimacy as Mystery, Mystery as Magic. This conversation takes place in two parts, In the first: we explore dual and third cultures, witchery as…
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#244 Aiden Paez: Inspired by His Mother Karen Emile’s Creativity, Painting Through His Eyes
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Aiden Paez is a self-taught painter who works in acrylic, and most recently, in oils. His muted color palette is inspired by his mom Karen Emile’s home décor and the colors that she loves. Aiden is only 15 years old, but he’s a very talented artist. I interviewed them both together so it wouldn’t be so daunting for Aiden, but I also wanted to hear …
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Inclusivity in Motion with Raven Malouf Renning
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in this episode, Dancer, Choreographer, musician, and poet Raven Malouf Renning and I explore... the edges of the spaces to make art in, and how to expand that space to include and invite bodies and topics often ignored. We talk about the places, movement, queerness, and people in-between conventional social and creative frameworks. CW: Eating diso…
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Performance Artist, Healer, Musician, Burlesque dancer, Installation and film artist, writer, Activist, and poet, Rawiyah Tariq, takes us on a journey through experiences in Darkness, and possibility with a critical lens to challenge and empower. CW: Swearing, mentions of disordered eating, abuse, mental health Intro music: Bar Crawl by JR Tundra T…
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Episode 2 explores the life of a traveling folk music educator, Town Crier, Songwriter, and visual artist of other sorts, while she traces her path through time, planting seeds for listeners. Intro Music, Trad, Spencer the Rover, Sung by Amelia Hogan You can find and hire Bev for Town Crying events through: https://www.glartent.com/US/Cambria/15512…
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Spark of Inspiration, Part 2 Darrell St. Blaine
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Here, we end the conversation with Darrell St. Blaine, in Part 2 of, Spark of Inspiration, about sound, and Fire as art. With a few additional gems about why do we art, and how are we thinking about being a good audience for others thrown in for good measure. Bonus, you find out Darrell's choice of which muppet he would be. If you'd like to support…
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Spark of Inspiration, Part 1 Darrell St. Blaine
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Introducing Mixed Media Talks, with our first guest, Fire and sound artist, Darrell St. Blaine, to discuss, why we art and explore some big philosophical questions regarding the mechanisms that power the creative spark. intro Music: Burning Kisses, by Darrell St. Blaine You can find past samples of firedance, sound, and other work @ www.htps://darr…
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Alice Boll is passionate about scrapbooking and been preserving memories on layouts since 1999. She loves to get creative with journaling, mixed media, pretty patterned papers and layout design. Alice believes that scrapbooking is always more fun with friends, which is just one of the reasons she enjoys leading the ScrapHappy membership group. ind …
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#243 Andrea Scher: Artist, Author, and Wonder Seeker
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Artist and coach Andrea Scher has a degree in business, but she instantly knew she was destined for a creative field. She started painting, and soon she was selling her artwork. Andrea now works with women to help them be more brave and feel more alive. She helps them to practice and honor their creative superpowers. This is done through e-courses,…
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#242 Courtney Cerruti: Artist, Author, and Collaborator
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Courtney Cerruti is an artist, author, and collaborator working out of Oakland, California. She’s authored 5 books with Quarto Press and Abrams, including her latest book called One Color a Day. Courtney taught craft workshops when she worked at Paper Source, then moved toward display merchandising for Anthropologie. She currently teaches workshops…
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Deb Brown realized at a young age how much she enjoyed creative activities. As an adult with a busy life and full-time job, she found that love of art again during the most stressful time of her life. She found that it brought her a peace and calmness that she dearly needed. Deb turned that experience into a mission, a community, and a business, he…
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Jamie L. Norvell began Creations of Studio 39 weeks before the pandemic caused her to pivot her entire business model. What she thought was going to be an in-person paint party business quickly turned to doing daily live videos to connect with followers, and a monthly art journaling subscription box called the stART Journal Club. Find Jamie online:…
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