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.
The Creative Process
What is the Creative Process? Where do you get your ideas? In this post I write about “Generating Systems”: Any mental model that continually fosters the production of ideas, thoughts, metaphors, symbols, connections, and comparisons for use in the creation of works of art, writing, design, or research.
Envision Your Year Workbook
Spend some time at the turn of the year to look back, and look forward. This workbook leads you through the process of closing out the year and setting a vision and goals for next year, while looking inward to find inspiration.
Print this PDF (40 pages) and keep it all year; revisit it monthly to gauge where you are and remember your vision.
An in-depth inspirational workbook to start the new year:
Envision Your Year Tarot Spread
Word of the Year Exercise
Set Intentions & Goals
2023 Calendar
Ripple Meditation
Try Ripple Meditation in your own creative process. It has really helped me to create an atmosphere of deep creativity in my self, my studio practice, and my business. I am happy to share this idea with you, and I hope it helps you, too!
VIDEO: 9 Ways Artists Think
9 ways artists already think - that can make you great at business!
The Psychology of Imitation
Why do we make master copies - and how can imitation help us find our own voice?
The Struggle Button
Why do artists think they need to struggle? It is pretty basic chemistry, it turns out! All humans experience struggle and reward in almost every activity - artists are just more aware of it, from historical circumstances, social patterning, and more. Let’s explore!
The Adventure of the Accidental Lunaria
I discovered a new form of painting by accident. I call them Lunaria, because they create a little moon on the ceiling, and glow from within.