Let me ask you a question, artist to artist. What kind of world do you want to live in? Me, I want to live in a world where ideas and beauty are valued, a world where talent and effort are rewarded, a world where art is celebrated. Where craft is practiced and revered. I …
Artist, you cannot fail. What if that were true? What would you do differently if you knew that artists can’t ever fail? Well, guess what? It is true. It’s a success just to be an artist. To do the work, to own who you are. The only thing you can fail at is …
Have you ever felt like your creativity wasn’t flowing? Maybe life wasn’t working out? Nothing was going according to plan? Have you ever struggled to keep the faith? In times of crisis I look for those wise teachers in my life so I turned to my friend, Andrew David Smith because Andy is …
Have you ever found yourself questioning if you’re good enough? Or maybe you overthink something you did or something you said? Sometimes we get stuck in those thoughts, wondering about the judgments and opinions of others. I’ve learned that it comes down to a CHOICE. Believe me, making this one choice has given …
As artists, we are CREATORS. And your life is your greatest creation. In his brilliant book Negative/Positive, Bill Jay wrote that artists are people who strive to become actually who they are potentially. To become actually who we are potentially, I love that. Who are you potentially? What lies inside you? People look at my …
What am I doing? I’m working. What am I working on? So glad you asked. I’m really excited because I’m working on a new project for artists. It’s really unique and it’s really exciting. Get this. It’s called the Artist Collective, a working retreat and exhibition. And it happens here, right here, the …
Have you read the news,? They’re predicting that artists are being replaced by robots. That art as we know it is dead. Artificial Intelligence, they call it. A.I. But what is AI? During a recent Coaching Call, I hosted Working Artist alumni Michael Pierre Price to talk about AI + Art. We recorded the call and …
An artist recently told me that for years there was a battle inside her head as both hemispheres of her brain struggled to control her fate. The right side of her brain screamed to be an artist. It wanted to play, to make, to create. But the left side of her brain had other ideas. …
It was Day 16 of my crowd-funding campaign and I had only cried in public once. Twice. Online crowd-funding is not for the faint of heart. This was a several years ago, when I was raising the funds to create The Working Artist. It was my dream to create an online business school for artists …
Do you hate social media? Do you hate self-promotion? Do you hate the competitiveness? The vacuous echo? The soul-sucking amount of time it takes? I hated all those things too. Yet people were always telling me that I had to do it. I had to do what everyone else is doing. There was no other …
