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A silly and serious podcast about creativity and stepping out of your comfort zone.
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In this episode we explore how everything going wrong (SO FUN) might be taking you exactly where you need to go: I throw a party and no one comes, againAn absolute gauntlet of unreasonable requestsWhat if you don’t have to fix your hump (or anything) before you can have what you want?
I say it in my head and I'm finally saying it out loud 🤣. Although, I looked it up and it said "a merciless, destructive, and unstoppable force" which... I could probably get behind 🤣 In this episode: Sending a gallery-showdown-concluding emailFacing the fear of raising the price for Dancing in the DarkSubmitting tickets to my own complaint departmentTrying to do more of what's important without getting distracted by how it feels 😅The book: Unbound: A Woman's Guide to Power, by Kasia Urbaniak
In this episode A gallery showdown and corresponding revelationsA Very Important Conversation with TeresaLearnings from recent events: public band practice, fiddle jam, and a first-ever pop-up choirA Dancing in the Dark reckoning
Wait, I can do whatever I want at the studio! Including record episodes. Which is good because if I'm not at the studio I'm not alone and can't record lol What if you invest in FUN (instead of blowing $1000 on stage lights)An illuminating lesson on fiddle and designing for communityA previously unknown artist career path - but the catch is you have to dabble and explore everything your heart desiresI mention: Ookpik Waltz (the Frankie Rodgers version)Telepathy Tapes Season 2 Episode 3
Just trying to document this as it's happening: I'm slowly finding a way around some fears that have been holding me back for a long time. I have been blocking the flow of creativity with fear - 'they'll never put my event on the marquee', 'I'll offend the dance teacher by negotiating me not putting on this event for free'I didn't realize how much this was limiting my opportunities - the ones that come in naturally and the ones I make for myselfEach time I send a hard email or put on a succes...
A walking episode from an imperfect member of the human group. Never say never: a polka do-overDress, saved by the belt"T he worst thing that could happen would be that I waste my life thinking about it, but never actually take a bite out of it because it feels like too much work" yikesHow to survive when someone breaks up with your creative project (no, I'm asking)I mention: Patsy Blouse by Charm Patterns: https://charmpatterns.com/shop/patsy-blouse/Art & Fear by Ted Orland and David Bay...
An update: calling dances, forming a band, and accumulating dings from the universe. I mention the book Art & Fear by David Bayles
A walking around the yard in range of the baby monitor episode! Accidentally manifesting four barn dance gigs in one week (too many?)Plus: coming full circle and calling on stage at the dance that originally inspired meRevisiting Folk Schools and nonprofitsYou COULD do anything. So what is it that you will do?I mention: Arts on the FlyBoot Scootin' BoogieTiny Experiments by Anne-Laure Le Cunff
In this episode: HOW DID THE FUNDRAISER GO?I hate when people take video at The Function (takes video at The Function)What if you just learned easier songs and could actually play them?If you miss dancing with your friends so much, why don't you just teach 'em how???We're all hurtling by on the conveyor belt of time and will eventually be in The Past just like everybody else (shit)I mention Fiddler/caller Gordon StobbeTennessee Waltz by Anne MurrayHoedowns, Reels, and Frolics by Phil Jamison
Andrea Holmes (of A. Holmes Art Studio) is mural painter, art mentor, fellow "bird lady", and now AUTHOR! based in McKinney, Texas. Andrea recently wrote a book with her friend Beth Fields called "Art Makes Magic", a guide for emerging artists around career, mediums, and mentorship. She's also got a thrilling, audacious goal: 100 bird murals around the world. 4 down, including one in Hawaii! Is your wall next? Hire her here: https://www.aholmesartstudio.com/ Also: How do you pick up the piece...
In this episode: Updates: the kiln works! the boat works! the yard... works!Gnarled, magical gardens all start somewhere, right?Women's fair: if I get to decide how I want to feel, I'll spend 10 hours with my back to the audienceSurviving (thriving?) square dance practiceI mention Paul Silveria's "Old Time Dance Party": https://paulsilveria.bandcamp.com/album/old-time-dance-party-full-album-and-booklet
In this episode: Easy come, very difficult go: de-stashing in a small townPocket welt revelationsWant to be more musical? Just paint a shuffle on it (what!?)I mention: Fibremood Marcia Jacket: https://www.fibremood.com/en/product/845-marcia-jacket-podDarol Anger's shuffle fiddle tip: https://youtu.be/K_1jJ_kHPro
A post-skunk solo walk. Maybe you can't make something (community) from nothing (no community)Spirited and joyful fiddle energy, plus the opposite (hunch-backed and wide-eyed)Finally, we're learning to call barn dances. By signing up to call a barn dance.I mention: Contra Calling: A Basic Text by Tony ParkesOld Time Dance Party by Paul Silveria13 Ways to Kill Your Community by Doug Griffiths1000 Hours Outside podcast
In this walking episode we're clearing a log jam: rage-sewingtackling kryptonite tasksfinishing big audacious art projectsI mention Daily Painting by Carol Marine13 Ways to Kill your CommunityTwig and TaleSalt Spring National Art Prize
A walking episode: Man was I ever burnt out just nowRefilling the creative well with classes and booksA childhood home remembered, a map madeLetting kids use the Good PaintTaking another crack at that damn quiltI mention A GREAT MANY THINGS in this episode: Fluent Forever pronunciation trainersAnki, the flashcard appThe Good Ship Illustration Picturebook CourseMartin Salisbury, author of 100 Great Children's Picturebooks and Illustrating Children's BooksBOOK: Daily Painting by Carol MarinePai...
A walking episode: January in review!! In which we did 5 events in 10 days (wtf?), including Life Drawing and Still Life painting. In this episode Apparently nobody comes to anything in January, even if they did in DecemberSell your early work, QUICK before you become a different personHow do you teach someone to love something?Becoming a gym girlie in your thirties (maybe)I mention: Syllabus by Lynda BarryPainting Portraits in Acrylic by Hashim Akib
A walking episode with *GASP* a microphone! Thanks Greg! Lots of old stuff comes back around in this episode. Getting a baby-size sweater pattern by scaling down and hitting "Print""Color Notes" and painting colours not thingsConfidence and competence over time, with practice? WHAT!?I mention: Didi pullover by Fibre Mood: https://www.fibremood.com/en/patterns/707-didi-pulloverGood Ship Illustration (free workshop): https://www.thegoodshipillustration.com/HelenworkshopreplayDevon Walz UNIQUE c...
A walking in the yard episode, just a little update where I talk about Art Class and Dancing in the Dark and feel hopeful. Also: quilting colour woes, a mama sew-in, and other blue-sky ideas. I mention Modern Improv Quilting by Laura Veenema
Kristen Egan is a mixed media artist – primarily gourds, wood, and paper clay – based somewhere in the woods of Pennsylvania. Her folkloric and characterful masks drip with personality and take illustration 3 dimensional. See her work on Instagram at kristeneganart. You can hear more from Kristen in episode 126 and 130! This episode is so good! And also there's a little bit of background fuzz but I'm practicing imperfection so I don't sit on this great conversation for 6 months. In this epis...
And here we are within it. In this walking episode, some successes and their accompanying fears. What if you could get paid to just show up and be yourself?? well then I wouldn't have time for anything else like another kid or taking my stuff to the dump so I'd better notMaybe have a snack and give yourself a little break from the intensity of hating your own workSome ideas for visual artists to overcome art blockI mention Book: The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control, by Katherine Morgan...
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