Webinar 2: Your Creative Identity-The Art of Affirming your Inner Creative

On Tuesday, November 28, 2017 at 7 pm ET, I will be hosting this complimentary webinar through my new brand, Spark Your Creative, to share tips on establishing your identity as a creative person.

Do you feel that you have an inner artist or creative side but need help coaxing it out?

Do you actually believe you are a talented and creative individual capable of creating wonderful things?

Affirmations can help! Positive affirmation are great messages to have around an art studio or office or creative space as reminders of your creative talents. During this engaging webinar, we will talk about our identities as creative individuals, the benefits of affirmations, and how to create our own affirmations. You don’t have to be an artist or creative to participate! Bring your creative passion and an open mind!

At the end of this webinar, you will be able to

-Explore your core beliefs about being creative and where it comes from

-Address negative self-talk as a creative

-How to create and use affirmations to to move past unsupportive thoughts and beliefs to help you move forward as a creative.

At the end of the webinar you will have the tools to develop affirmations to support your inner creative as well as learn about an opportunity to use them to commit to your future creative goals.

Space is limited….register here:  https://yourcreativeidentity.eventbrite.com

MINDFULLY CREATIVE PODCAST EPISODE 9: ARTWATCHDC’S ONE HOUSE PROJECT

This episode of The Mindfully Creative Podcast focuses on a new and exciting exhibition effort by ArtWatchDC entitled the One House Project, which opens officially on Friday, November 3, 2017 at Touchstone Gallery in Washington, DC.  In this interview, I talk with the founders of ArtWatchDC, artists Jackie Hoysted and Ellyn Weiss about the exhibition’s concept and goals and how it can be replicated in other cities across the United States.

About the One House Project

With the support of Touchstone Foundation for the Arts, The One House Project will be on display during the month of November at Touchstone Gallery in Washington, DC. The show calls for viewers to engage with the house structure as a whole while identifying individual panels and the cultural history each panel holds within. Audio and video recordings of the artists’ stories will be included. As many artists have come together to make the One House Project, it is their hope that Americans come together to embrace the power found in a united people.

Conceived by ArtWatch, a group initially convened by Ellyn Weiss and Jackie Hoysted, the One House Project, one of the biggest collaborative art installations ever seen in DC, embodies both resistance to the subversion of democratic principles and the assertion of their importance. Over 220 DC area artists have come together to demonstrate the power of visual communication to support values such as tolerance and inclusion and to resist the efforts to divide us by race, gender, sexual preference, class or region. The overriding principle of One House is the vision for a country where we are united as one rather than divided; the artists aim to universalize this message by bringing it to a very personal level.

Each participating artist used a 12” square panel on which he or she commemorated an ancestor who came to this country — voluntarily or involuntarily, or was here prior to the landing of the Europeans. The panels cover a broad span of time, including Native Americans, those whose ancestors who came on the Mayflower and artists who came themselves very recently, who used the square to tell their own story as newcomers to this country. A structure will be erected in the Touchstone Gallery and covered entirely with these panels, representing the remarkable range of diverse humanity who have combined to make the strength of America.

For more information about the One House Project and related events, click here.

About ArtWatch DC

ART WATCH is a collective of DC/Maryland/Virginia artists who have gathered together to develop ways to use the power of visual communication to express their support for true democratic values, such as inclusion, tolerance, equality under the law, and stewardship of the environment. Our vision is for a country where we are united as one people rather than divided against each other by race, gender, class, religion or any other construct. Learn more about ArtWatchDC here.

About the Founders of ArtWatch DC

Jackie Hoysted (co-founder) a native of Ireland, is a multi-media artist and curator interested in creating awareness of social and political issues that have personal significance to her such as identity, health, feminism, economy and religion. She has had multiple solo exhibitions throughout the US and her work featured in multiple publications including the Washington Post, the Huffington Post, the Washington City Paper and the Pittsburgh City paper.  For more information, visit her website at  www.JackieHoysted.com

Ellyn Weiss is a Washington, DC-based visual artist in two and three dimensions, as well as an independent curator, with studios in Mt. Rainier, MD and Truro, MA. She has had over 25 solo or featured shows and has participated in numerous juried and curated exhibitions. Ellyn works in a wide variety of media; the materials used in recent shows include wax, oilbar, dry pigment, wire, plastic dip and tar. Her work has for many years been inspired by the imagery of biological and natural structures and most recently, by the threats posed by global climate change. With various collaborators, she has exhibited installations dealing with the effects of the melting of the polar ice cap, the destruction of coral reefs worldwide, and the migration of infectious diseases.  For more information, visit her website at www.EllynWeiss.com

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Listen to Episode 9 below: