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Visit my Studio

A few images from life in my MFA program at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Illinois.

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Tracking my Creative Process: Ceramics

Tracking a ceramics project chronologically.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Ephemera & Elegy

The reward was that I got to be myself.

—Artist Jimmy Wright

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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

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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?

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Updates & Overview

Update & Overview of my coaching programs.

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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!

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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.

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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

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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!

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Join me for a Conversation with Daniel DiGriz, host of The Thriving Artist Podcast

How to Wear

All. The. Hats.

(& not become the Mad Hatter)

Facebook Live! The 4 Hats of Artists in Business with Daniel DeGriz from the Thriving Artist Podcast, in conversation with art & business coach Shannon Borg

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How Do I Coach Myself?

5 Tools for Self-Coaching for Artists and Creative Business Owners
What is a coach? Should I invest in a creative coach or a business coach? How can I coach myself? I answer these and other questions in this blog post - with 5 helpful tools to get you on your way to self-coaching for entrepreneurs, artists, and anyone who just wants to do some self-development or self-help work.