The podcast that pushes you to create that thing you've been thinking about.
Lois van Baarle is a freelance illustrator and animator living in Utrecht (the Netherlands). She has lived all over the world, including the United States, Indonesia, France, and Belgium. She is widely known online as Loish, and has become a sensation in the digital art world. Her first published collection of her works is called “The Art of Loish” and was successfully funded on Kickstarter in 2 hours.
Roxanne Charles is a mixed media artist of Strait Salish and European descent. She is an active and proud member of Semiahmoo First Nation in Surrey, British Columbia where she promotes art, language, and culture. Roxanne is a contemporary story teller whose goal is to touch, move, and inspire others through her work.
She works with a wide range of media. Her work often explores a variety of themes such as spirituality, identity, hybridity, the environment, urbanization and various forms of structural violence.
Zoë Williams creates otherworldly creatures that serve as spirit guides. Her needle felt sculptures are inspired by dreams, visions, and the collective unconscious.
Born in 1983 in New Orleans, LA, Zoë Williams holds a BA in Fine Art from the University of New Orleans and a Certificate in Fiber Art from the University of Washington. Her work in needle felted wool has been exhibited in galleries around the world. She currently lives and works in New York City.
Jane Radstrom is a figurative painter from San Francisco, CA. She is known for her unique pastel portraits of people depicted with multiple poses layered over one another, so that they appear to be moving. Her work is shown in galleries across America, and has won awards from The Portrait Society, The Pastel Society of the West Coast and Pastel Journal Magazine.
“Vera Study” by Jane Radstrom
Xin Li is a twenty-one-year-old photographer living in Bergen, Norway who likes to chase light. She has been interested in photography all of her life and believes that photography is not just important to document the beauty that she sees around her, but to also tell stories with her work.
Helen Lee is an artist, goldsmith, author, illustrator, consultant, and founder. She creates thin gold hoop earrings and hummingbird art in small, artisanal quantities with sustainable practices.
-Her origin story and how she got to the point she is today in her creative career.
-Being a personal trainer.
-Her interactions and inspiration from Suzanna Schlemm.
-The importance of doing work wherever you go.
-The trials and tribulations of running a store and the lessons that she learned along the way.
-How she started making her thin hoop earrings.
-How helenbobelen.com is a continuation of another blog that she had before.
-How everything is figure-out-able.
-Paying attention to the spaces between what you say or think.
-About giving back to people and what comes back to you.
“Over time, I think my ideas about having a store were slowly changing.”
“If I had worked under someone else, I don’t know if it would have worked as well.”
“Self-taught is a funny word because in some ways inspiration means that you get out of your own way and allow it to come through you.”
“If it’s like music, the earrings are kind of like the drums – just keeps the beat – and the artwork is like the melody.”
Michele Chiaramonte is a former New York City school-teacher turned stay-at-home mom, turned woodworker. She designs and hand-makes children’s imaginative play toys for her company, Little Miss Workbench, an ecofriendly workshop out of Bellport Village, New York.
Brandyn Burnette is a progressive soul producer/singer-songwriter from St. Louis, Missouri currently living in Los Angeles. This self taught, 3rd generation musician has crafted his own sound and style that has begun to takeover the pop underground world from the inside out. He released his first EP “Made of Dreams” in 2015, and his latest EP “State I’m In” comes out on June 24th, 2016.
Picolo is a traditional and digital freelance illustrator based in Brazil. He took the internet by storm with his 365 Days of Doodles project, in which he blessed the internet with a new complex and detailed drawing every day for a year. He used that success to build an incredible following on DeviantArt, Instagram, & Facebook, where he continues to generously open up his sketchbook as well as his words of advice for defeating procrastination.
Eyoälha Baker is a Canadian photographer who is spreading joy one jump at a time. With her Jump for Joy Photography project, she travels the world taking photos of people from all walks of life in mid-air as they jump for joy in an attempt to showcase the beauty of the human spirit.
