Have you ever had an experience early in life that determined your path? Even if that wasn’t your path, a comment or a person directed you away from an essential part of you. In this episode of Stumbling Toward Genius, you’ll hear the story of how I reclaimed my artist and why this was so vital to my well-being.
In this episode:
- Why I kept a vital part of me locked away for decades
- How I gave myself permission to let my artist out
- Creative Competency – Being a beginner
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Links to things and people mentioned in the show
Ira Glass talk in a visual format on Zen Pencils
Stumbling Toward Genius is written and produced by Cynthia Morris and Original Impulse. Engineering by Jason Camps of Just Launch Media. Show music by Evan MacDonald.
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What an exciting podcast! You open the doors to a new way of looking at creative expressions and show us ways to explore our creativity. I love it!
This might be the best one yet in this series. Rather than talk about my own journey, I’ll talk about my mother.
My mom was scared off being an artist by a high school art teacher, though she made some art and did crafts as me and my sister were growing up. Then she went back to school in her fifties to finish her BA that had started out at NYU in pre-med, and was put off because of WW2. She got a BA in art, then an MA in sculpture/3D. She ended up doing every media from wood to metal to life drawing to glass to jewelry along with sculpture and water color.
She never sold much. That wasn’t her thing. It was all about doing art all day, everyday. I’m sure if she lived in the internet/Etsy age, she would have made a name for herself. A local ABC affiliate found her and wanted to do a piece about old women who made art, or something as disparaging. She said FU to that. If they wanted to do a piece about a local artist, fine. Otherwise, forget about it. She turned down the media!
When asked about herself, till the end, she said she was an artist. That was what and who she was.
As always, you are an inspiration.