Satsuki Shibuya: On depth v.s. growth
Satsuki Shibuya is an artist and spiritual thinker living in Los Angeles. In today's episode Satsuki shared about how she came into the practice of painting and how it fits into a bigger picture of her spiritual life. She led the circle into learning the one thing she felt called to share, which is to contemplate growth v.s. depth.
Yan Palmer: On Trust, Consistency, and Structure in her creative practice
Yan Palmer is a professional photographer, a process artist, and a single mom of three children living in Provo, Utah.
In this interview, Yan shared about her journey to becoming a soulful photographer, teacher, and podcast host, she also shared the one thing she believed could help us grow and transform as creatives.
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Creative Shift Circle featuring Rachel Barbera & Benz Amataya
This is a special episode to celebrate the last day of Creative Shift Circle membership application.
After August 30, our doors will be closed so that we can focus on cultivating and growing our creative community. If you want to join us and become our founding members, click here.
In today’s episode, we’re talking with Rachel Barbara, an artist member of the circle as well as a new team member who will be helping Benz facilitate our circle.
We started the interview by interviewing Rachel about her art journey and what she currently needs support with, then Rachel took on the role of a podcast host and interviewed Benz about her vision for the circle.
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Creative Shift Circle featuring Montserrat Serra
Montserrat Serra is a founding member of The Creative Shift Circle online support group. She is an artist and mother of two young children. She makes large scale abstract painting from her home studio in Spain.
In this episode we talked about
Montserrat’s artful upbringing
Her experience with art school
Her experience with art therapy
Her current art practice
Current challenges she is facing
How she is being supported and inspired by our creative circle
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Creative Shift Circle featuring Shuang Li
Shuang Li is a jewelry designer based in NYC and a founding member of the Creative Shift Circle.
In this episode Shuang talked about
Her journey to becoming an artist
Her gradual process of leaving her day job to become a jewelry designer
Her design process
Her experience with the Creative Shift Circle
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Creative Shift Circle featuring Poppy Dodge
Poppy Dodge is an abstract painter and founding member of Creative Shift Circle.
In this interview Poppy talked about her art journey, her current project, and how the circle has been supporting and inspiring her.
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Ange Miller: On making art from the deepest part of ourselves
Ange Miller is an artist and mother based in Australia. She is an advocate of making art from the deepest part of your heart. In this interview we talked about her art journey, how she found Intuitive Soul Art, and most importantly “the one thing” that she would like to share with the art community.
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Lauren Mckenzie-Noel: A courageous art story
Lauren Mckenzie-Noel creates a vast variety of work that focus’s on diversity and bridging her two halves on her walk with identity in being both black and white. New to Cleveland coming from West Palm Beach Florida Lauren spends most of her time either in her studio or working on murals in her community. Creating conversations around identity, race, and womanhood. Most of Lauren’s work features portraits of either Individuals she has met in her own personal walk as an artist or is derived from her own imagination and a melting pot of faces. Using an array of materials as well as color to highlight the beauty of people of color in her life.
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Grace Sangat Gian: Kundalini Yoga for artists
Grace Sangat Gian is an artist and yoga teacher living in Chicago.
I invited her to the interview to share the basics of Kundalini Yoga and how this practice can be applied for artists.
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Katherine Corden: Her biggest mindset shift is figuring out what is “enough” for her and her family
Katherine Corden is a part-time physical therapist and part-time artist currently living in Madison, WI.
Katherine loves helping people and find the human body fascinating, which is partly why many of her paintings focus on the human figure. She tries to capture the imperfect beauty of nature, humans and social interaction in her work, to evoke nostalgia and comfort.
Interview Highlights:
Who are you?
Katherine
What is your life’s work?
Nourishment
What’s the one word that defines where you are right now?
Growth
What’s the one word that defines where you want to be?
Present
What makes you feel good?
My husband
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