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

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.

The reward was that I got to be myself.

—Artist Jimmy Wright

“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

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?

Time it, Type it, Tweak it:

3 Simple Steps to Getting ANY Writing Project DONE!