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Creatives Making Moves podcast spotlights passionate women artists and creatives who are making bold moves as entrepreneurs. Each week black women creatives share their experiences slaying the art world, lessons learned, and tips on how to live your best creative life. We talk about how to refine and grow your passions, self care, business strategies, time management hacks, and how to overcome blocks to fully step into your creative genius. Soak in the power of black women creatives! Ready to feel inspired and make an impact?
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Thursday Nov 12, 2020
Thursday Nov 12, 2020
Meet La Keisha Leek, a self proclaimed storyteller. Originally from Tampa, Florida, she is an artists advocate, writer, and arts administrator based in Chicago. She also works at the MacArthur Foundation in Grant Management.
La Keisha is known for her wildly popular publication with Candor Arts, How to Make A Hood, a meditation on the misconceptions of Black bodies. Her years of curatorial experience as the Executive Administrator to Theaster Gates, and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, led her to want a slower pace and to start something new.
L’Louise Arts Foundation was born. The foundation supports artists of color by providing professional and financial resources. Join us as we discuss La Keisha’s calling as a Servant leader and how she helps artists create the narrative they want.
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Thursday Nov 05, 2020
Thursday Nov 05, 2020
Meet Vanessa Stokes, a photographer and community organizer based in Chicago. She is also the founder of VS Creative Consulting, LLC, an artist representative firm where her main client is Dorrell Creightney, Vanessa’s late Father who opened the first black-owned photography studio in Chicago in 1969. Vanessa has hosted a series of art pop-ups, workshops, classes, performances, and artist residencies in public places underutilized in the Austin community. She created the Art & Culture Committee at Austin Town Hall Park to offer a space for artists to create, showcase and sell their art, and to expose the neighborhood to arts programming.
Join us as we discuss placemaking, creating positive stories, fear and the importance of public art to serve communities.
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Tuesday Oct 13, 2020
Tuesday Oct 13, 2020
Dionne Victoria is an educator and Chicago painter whose artwork is a meditative tool to heal and express her soul. As her love of science grew, she began developing a science-arts integration curriculum while teaching at SkyArt. Dionne Victoria also runs her own arts studio, Dionne Victoria Studios, where she focuses on change through the three E’s: education, exhibitions and entrepreneurship.
Join us as we discuss Dionne’s entrepreneurial journey and how she uses art as therapy to heal from trauma using chakras.
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Tuesday Sep 22, 2020
Tuesday Sep 22, 2020
Meet Cherlnell Lane, a roaring fire, under a cool demeanor, with a kind soul, that she shares authentically in hopes of healing the world. As a speaker, advocate, facilitator, and poetic-storyteller Cherlnell birthed Cherlnell Lane, LLC where she helps to relate, advocate, and uplift Black women.
Cherlnell is the creator of Writing Through It Workshops and Healing Through It Summits where she facilitates women to reveal, deal, and heal from trauma while recognizing strengths and positive experiences. Her company is also home of Cookie Jar Open Mic online, a bi-weekly event that showcases writers and performing artists.
In this episode learn how Cherlnell uses her life experiences to reach and inspire people with her artistry, curriculum, projects, and words.
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Tuesday Sep 15, 2020
Tuesday Sep 15, 2020
Meet Lauren Jackson, an illustrator, mentor, and creative entrepreneur based in Chicago. She’s the founder of Lo Creates, a space for healing, creativity, and growth. Her love for lush colors, representation, and happiness can be seen in her children books, commissions, and illustrative prints. Lauren’s mission is to help women creatives of color develop a strategy for working towards their purpose.
In this episode we discuss Lauren’s journey building a business, and how she’s creating a sustainable life as a creative centered around joy.
In this episode Lauren shares:
- The moment that she realized the power of her art.
- What her life as an entrepreneur looks like, and how she balances building a business and maintaining her practice as an artist.
- What drives her work and keeps her going, even in challenging moments.
- The big challenge she faces as a creative entrepreneur, and how she works to overcome it every day.
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Tuesday Sep 08, 2020
Tuesday Sep 08, 2020
There’s this amazing strategy I learned that every creative entrepreneur needs to do. It's called the Buffett Method, and it gave me so much clarity in my business.
The strategy, coined by Warren Buffett, is used to help you to prioritize and focus. If you're feeling overwhelmed and disorganized right now this is perfect for you.
In order to get organized you need to be very clear on the projects you're working on right now that drives you. This might sound basic, but let's pull back the layers.
You’re probably doing way too much right now. #teamtoomuch You get super inspired to start a new idea, and before you know it you’re juggling a million projects. Then you start feeling overwhelmed, not sure where to focus, or worse you never get anything done. Sounds familiar?
In this episode you’ll learn a simple 3-step process you can do to better focus and prioritize your time on what really matters to you. You got this, Sis.
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Tuesday Sep 01, 2020
Tuesday Sep 01, 2020
Meet Ama Asantewa, a Ghanaian storyteller, performer, writer, and the founder and creative director of Yobbings, a greeting card online store. Her creative practice is rooted in a desire to tell her own story, in her own language, mannerisms, and culture.
For two years Ama sat with an idea to start a greeting card company, but fear of failure stopped her from moving forward. She thought “how can I possibly compete with Hallmark?” One day she had enough, pushed down her excuses and fears, and took a leap of faith to start Yobbings with just 4 cards.
Today Yobbings creates over 80 cards internationally to show love, solidarity, and to acknowledge black greatness. It's synonymous with thoughtfulness and lightheartedness.
Check out this episode to find out about Ama’s experience adjusting to life as a creative in Chicago, how her life as an artist in Ghana was different, and get inspired by her journey starting her business Yobbings.
In this episode, Ama shares:
- Her first memory of being an artist, and what life was like growing up in Ghana as an artist.
- The common thread in her work that ties her poetry, singing, and design together and is the driving force behind her work.
- An intimate look at her experience living in Chicago during graduate school and how that experience impacted her creative practice.
- What she believes is the key factor for her success in her business Yobbings
- The best advice she was ever given when first starting out as an entrepreneur, and how it helped her to create a sustainable practice.
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Tuesday Aug 25, 2020
Tuesday Aug 25, 2020
This episode is for you if you’re feeling stuck, unworthy, or judging yourself for being lazy.
You’re not alone if fear, doubt, and procrastination has stopped you from achieving your dreams. Fear, in its many forms, can stop us from achieving our highest potential. It most commonly shows up as a fear of failure, fear of success, fear of rejection, fear of the unknown, or fear of disappointment.
We all have fears. How can you use fear to your advantage?
Take a moment to think about how fear plays out in your life. Then ask yourself, are you willing to let another year pass by living outside your purpose?
Embracing fear is a tool to help achieve your goals and dreams. Use fear as the key that frees you.
In this episode you’ll learn:
- The 3 things you need to have in order to work your fears to launch your dream to the next level.
- I break down 7 mindset practices you can do right now to embrace your fears so that they no longer sabotage you.
- A big failure that I had, and how I flipped my fear to give me clarity and insight to move my business forward.
- My lessons learned, and a daily mantra you can use to kick fear in the ass and keep it moving to thrive.
Follow your fear and I promise it will lead you directly to your freedom, joy and purpose.
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From Fear to Freedom Virtual Artist Retreat
Tuesday Aug 18, 2020
Tuesday Aug 18, 2020
Meet Wisdom Baty, an artist, parent, curator, and educator based in Chicago. She’s interested in exploring events about how black artists think about the world we want to construct.
She’s also on the Arts Advisory Board at Experimental Station and the COLAB 7100 Director of Development and Community Relations where she curates a community based co-working space and small business incubator.
When Wisdom discovered that there were limited resources for mothers who wanted to explore artist residencies, she did what any visionary would do. She created a manifestor and started doing programming with parents and other institutions. The Ways We Make series was born.
The Ways We Make: Nurturing Creative Communities as Mothers of Color, is a gathering and celebration of black and brown women to share art and strategy to thrive as moms.
Wisdom has always felt a warmth and energy around creative people. She follows that instinct to continue to build with other creatives.
In this episode we discuss how artists can affirm the things they want in their lives, how to create only what matters to you, and reimaging physical space and historical accuracy for black people.
Check out this episode:
- Find out why Wisdom is interested in embodying intersectionality in her roles as educator, artist, and curator.
- Learn how Wisdom reclaims her time as a mother and artist.
- Wisdom’s experience in Grad school and how it impacted her art practice.
- What Wisdom believes goes against our DNA and ancestry that’s rooted in white supremacy culture.
- What brings Wisdom joy these days?
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Tuesday Aug 11, 2020
Tuesday Aug 11, 2020
Self growth is a journey.
Meet Brette Sims and Stephanie Sparks, two creative entrepreneurs based in Los Angeles. They run Stuk Designs, a 501C3 nonprofit art organization and collective for creative career women that provides art and self love education to girls in underserved communities globally.
Brette is the President and Creative Director, and Steph is the Vice President and Program Director of Stuk Designs.
Once they became conscious of what a powerful antidote art and self-love were to anxiety and depression, they made it their mission to teach this truth to girls. Their philosophy is simple: do what you love!
Stuk stands for; Strong. Talented. United. and Knowledgeable. It’s mission embodies each of these words as a source of inspiration for young girls and women. It’s core belief is that how you take care of yourself and talk to yourself each plays a role in your success in life.
In this episode, we dive deep into the power of trusting your inner guidance. Whether you use crystals or prayer, it's important to trust in your special gifts and abilities.
Check out this episode to learn:
- The story behind how Brette manifested teaching art to underserved kids in Africa, and why a trip to Ghana renewed her faith in human kindness.
- How Brette and Steph are fighting the stigma to being artists in the black community.
- Their outlook on achieving balance, and why they believe it's important to not do all the things at once in order to focus on your real purpose.
- How Stuk Designs stays true to its mission while striving for growth.
- The reason Steph and Brette think it's so important to build a tribe who’s going to support you and your beliefs, and give you strength to hold your dreams.
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