Creating Art Goals for 2017

by | Develop Your Unique Artist Voice

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...

Creative Spirit Danielle Krysa

by | How to be An Artist

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,...

Creative Spirit Carrie Hilgert

by | How to be An Artist

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...

3 Books to get you MAKING

by | Develop Your Unique Artist Voice

How exactly can you become your best artist self? This is a question I’m investigating this month with others in my challenge #BeCreativelyCourageous. We are talking about success, dedication, and scaffolding our way to our own, unique, specific definitions of growth,...

Gailani Art Retreat in Muscat, Oman

by | Why do the Arts Matter?

Art does more than change the world: it changes YOU. I’m very fortunate that just before I left Oman, a friend asked me if I’d come with her to a local artist retreat. I’d heard about it since I first moved here, but my own labels and judgements kept me away. I don’t...