My artist talk on Monday night for RMCQ went well – despite the winter storm warning (AND the men’s college basketball championship), we had a pretty good turnout. Not sure that the basketball championship really kept anyone from attending, although I’m thankful I wasn’t also competing with a season premiere of Downton Abbey.
Now that I’ve done a few of these talks, I’m getting much clearer on what the “take-aways” are that I want the audience to hear. The more I share my story, the more I understand about myself as well.
Through my stories, I share my own journey of living a creative life and finding my way in developing my art career, even while continuing to work a full-time corporate day job, as I’ve done for 20 years now.
The business experience and leadership, management, and organizational development skills I’ve developed while working in the high tech world are helping me build my runway toward launching my own full-time art career. It’s exciting to be able to put these skills to work in following my passion.
Sharing What I’ve Learned
This weekend, I’m going to be teaching an Eco-Dyeing workshop, sharing what I’ve learned over the past couple of years through reading books by the masters and my own experiments with natural plant dyes.
I’ve taught drawing and printmaking classes at the college level years ago, and more recently have taught Art Cloth workshops at Ah Haa School for the Arts in Telluride, CO. (I’m actually not going to teach at Ah Haa this summer due to a very full exhibition schedule and need for some studio time, but will likely resume my teaching there in summer of 2014.)
This weekend workshop is going to be big fun as it’s a FULL workshop and the participants are raring to go. I don’t claim to be an expert on natural plant dyes by any means, but I am a good teacher (so I’ve been told!) and this is the subject area that the group wanted to explore. I look at this as sharing what I’ve learned and then expanding our group learning together.
In the end, isn’t that what it’s all about? We all get better together, sharing our knowledge, growing our learning. I’ll try to get some good photos and share our experience with you as well.
Happy Friday!
