Artist Strong Blog
Enjoy interviews and articles about creative process and our inherent creative spirit.3 Ways to Energize Your Art
It's the new year. That means fresh ideas, cleaning things out, and starting new. Do you have any strategies to help you energize your art in this new year? Today, we're going to talk about three strategies that will help energize your art. Experience your art...
Creating Art Goals for 2017
The new year is an arbitrary but culturally driven opportunity to reflect on what makes you happy and what you hope to change in your life. Let's take this opportunity to focus on our art in 2017. This coming year consider, a la Danielle LaPorte, how do you want to...
Artist Holiday Wishlist
AGH! What the heck should you get the artist in your life this gift giving season? (That artist can definitely be YOU.) Today, enjoy some of the goodies on my wish list. Feel free to forward this to your loved ones to give them a clue. 😉 Mallory Journals seems to...
Creative Spirit Danielle Krysa
Danielle Krysa has a BFA in Fine Arts, and a post-grad in graphic design. She is the writer/curator behind the contemporary art site The Jealous Curator. In 2014 she published two books, both with Chronicle Books, titled “Creative Block” and “Collage”. Her third book,...
Why Art Community Matters
We’ve all felt it before: the pain of rejection. Sometimes it happens as we develop the artwork and a friend or family member offers unwanted advice. Other times our work is up for exhibit at a gallery, or for sale at an art fair. Somehow, we manage to overhear a...
Creative Spirit Carrie Hilgert
Carrie Hilgert is a priestess of paint and the lens. Sometimes she uses paint and ink, sometimes a camera, and sometimes words. She always, however, strives to capture the everyday magic and connections she sees in the world in the most honest way possible. She is a...
Make Art That Changes the World
I listened to an interview a while ago where the artist felt a lot of pressure to make art that “changes the world.” She discovered her current art interest in part because she felt enjoyment from the process. She also felt free from the pressure of making “important”...
4 Reasons a Successful Artist Organizes
If you don’t have time for your art, how can you possibly have time to get your art space organized?! But what if being organized would actually help you make more art? There is such a stereotype around artists being disorganized and flaky. And yet, some of the most...
Creative Spirit Lambert Ho
Lambert Ho is an artist based in Fiji’s capital Suva. Lambert is of Fijian-Chinese heritage and has been a creative force on the Fiji and the Pacific Art scene for three decades now. His work includes fabric art for fashion shows, contemporary jewelry using natural...