Week #2: Think Week
Think Week is the time to connect ideas and inspiration, to find threads that stitch together all your various imaginings.
Week #1: Spark Week
Spark Week is the time to get inspired, gather fuel for your creative flames, and light the fire for your project.
Why you should Embrace Impostor Syndrome
Every artist feels it — that whisper of “Who am I to do this?” Learn how to transform Impostor Syndrome into your most powerful creative tool.
Let’s Re-Invent You!
RE-Invent! The Creative Transformation Challenge! Join me January 6-10, 11am-noon to get unstuck and gather new energy for the new year!
Visit my Studio
A few images from life in my MFA program at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Illinois.
Create a Vision Script Page on your website
Create a Vision Script Page on your Squarespace website to clarify your ideas and goals for the year.
Build Your Art Website on Squarespace
Your website should be a creative space in itself - that has your creative voice infused into it. If you need an art website, having another artist there to guide you through the process is the key.
Why you should do a quarterly retreat
A Quarterly Retreat - whether personal or for business, can help you slow down and assess where you are, what you’ve done to get here, and where you are going. Here are 3 steps to creating a fantastic and fruitful quarterly retreat.
Featured Artist / Client: Hannah Freitag
“The pursuit of career success and emotional fulfillment has led me here, and I can't wait to see what is going to come of it.”
-Hannah Freitag, collage artist
Your Artistic Archetypes are Always Shifting
We all have certain tendencies and ways of working in our art. Whether influenced from our environment, what we’ve been taught, or our innate style and voice, it is worthwhile to take a look at some of those patterns which may provide a deeper understanding of our own creative processes. These patterns can better help us understand ourselves if we see them as personifications, or metaphors as our Artistic Archetypes.
Have you taken the What is Your Artistic Archetype QUIZ?
Tools for the New Year
I’ve gathered 9 of my favorite business and mindset tools that I have created for my artist clients to help set goals, shift negative thought patterns, and keep on track. I hope these will help you start the new year out with a new vision of what you want to accomplish. You can do it!
What is an Art and Business Coach?
An art and business coach helps artists and creative entrepreneurs start and grow their creative businesses. But more importantly, a coach can help you learn how to believe in yourself at every step along the way, with new solutions and tools that can help you blow your own mind.