Today we continue our journey listening to and uplifting Black Creative Voices. This is an ongoing series where we interview black artists about their work, challenges and dreams. This episode features incredible Seattle-based author, artist, and entrepreneur, barry johnson. Join us as we talk about: -barry's IMMACULATE exhibition depicting black and brown faces that have been distorted, covered up and partially erased to represent what has happened to black culture and heritage to fit another p...
Feb 14, 2021•1 hr 16 min•Season 2Ep. 6
Today we continue our journey listening to and uplifting Black Creative Voices. This is an ongoing series where we interview black artists about their work, challenges and dreams. This episode features incredible Seattle-based author, artist, and entrepreneur, barry johnson. Join us as we talk about: -barry's IMMACULATE exhibition depicting black and brown faces that have been distorted, covered up and partially erased to represent what has happened to black culture and heritage to fit another p...
Feb 14, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Season 2Ep. 5
SERIOUSLY. It's a shitty word. Today we explore better words, and better ways to think about art when you’re disappointed in your work.
Jan 24, 2021•34 min•Season 1Ep. 12
Today we’re talking about critique vs. criticism. So put on your big gender-of-your-choice pants, stop crying, and use adult words good!
Jan 17, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 11
Today we continue our journey listening to and uplifting Black Creative Voices. This is an ongoing series where we interview black artists about their work, challenges and dreams. This episode features incredible Philadelphia-based actor, makeup artist, producer, businesswoman, and dear friend, Jael Brown. Join us as we talk about: • generational trauma, PTSD and mental health within POC communities and the film she produced as a love letter to her dad, "Small and Mighty" • how to navigate inclu...
Jan 10, 2021•44 min•Season 2Ep. 4
Today we continue our journey listening to and uplifting Black Creative Voices. This is an ongoing series where we interview black artists about their work, challenges and dreams. This episode features incredible Philadelphia-based actor, makeup artist, producer, businesswoman, and dear friend, Jael Brown. Join us as we talk about: • generational trauma, PTSD and mental health within POC communities and the film she produced as a love letter to her dad, "Small and Mighty" • how to navigate inclu...
Jan 10, 2021•58 min•Season 2Ep. 3
Being in the arts is tough. Art is regularly defunded, ridiculed, or considered unimportant. Yet without it, our lives would suck. Today we talk about how to stay afloat when the rest of the world is trying to sink you.
Dec 27, 2020•51 min•Season 1Ep. 10
You know when you stare at a blank canvas and the white void stares back and erodes your sense of reality till you can’t draw at all? Sure! This episode we talk about how to start when you just feel overwhelmed by the Niezchian, vast nothingness of your Photoshop doc.
Dec 13, 2020•32 min•Season 1Ep. 9
In a world that pressures us to produce 24/7, taking a break feels… wrong. In this episode we talk about how self-care and self-love are MANDATORY, not a reward.
Nov 28, 2020•39 min•Season 1Ep. 8
In a world...that pressures us to produce 24/7, taking a break feels…WRONG. In this episode we talk about how self-care and self-love are MANDATORY, not a reward.
Nov 15, 2020•27 min•Season 1Ep. 7
All art is just a remix of everything else. Stop worrying about uniqueness and start worrying about like, rising avocado prices or something.
Nov 02, 2020•51 min•Season 1Ep. 6
An episode about why we procrastinate and ways to overcome it or something. I’ll write the rest of the description later lmao.
Oct 18, 2020•1 hr 12 min•Season 1Ep. 5
What IS perfection, anyway, and why are we so obsessed with it? Today we talk about tackling the awful pressure we put on ourselves.
Oct 05, 2020•40 min•Season 1Ep. 4
Welcome to season two! Today we kick off Black Creative Voices, an ongoing series where we interview black artists about their work, challenges and dreams. This episode features incredible motion media designer and dear friend, Jen Estridge. Join us as we talk about Michael Kors walking by her desk, finding ourselves through design, school vs working life, Disney’s Splash Mountain, cancel culture (Jeffree Starr & Shane Dawson), police brutality, Black Lives Matter protests (George Floyd, Breonna...
Sep 19, 2020•33 min•Season 2Ep. 1
Did you know that artists are celestially chosen beings? No? Well they SURE AREN’T. In this episode we explore the issue with “talent” and how anyone can begin the path into artmaking.
Sep 19, 2020•42 min•Season 1Ep. 3
Welcome to season two! Today we kick off Black Creative Voices, an ongoing series where we interview black artists about their work, challenges and dreams. This episode features incredible motion media designer and dear friend, Jen Estridge. Join us as we talk about Michael Kors walking by her desk, finding ourselves through design, school vs working life, Disney’s Splash Mountain, cancel culture (Jeffree Starr & Shane Dawson), police brutality, Black Lives Matter protests (George Floyd, Breonna...
Sep 19, 2020•1 hr 5 min•Season 2Ep. 2
Everyone wants to fit in, right? But it’s not always good. Today we talk about making what’s true to you and embracing your strengths.
Apr 22, 2020•41 min•Season 1Ep. 2
Today we talk about just plunging in and not worrying about perfection. Bon voyage!
Apr 04, 2020•40 min•Season 1Ep. 1
