This is How We Create

Welcome back to This is How We Create. My name is Martine Severin your host. I’m excited to welcome Lisa Hunt is artist and designer.

Lisa has had a wide-ranging career as a creative, from doing work as a graphic designer, to becoming a magazine editor credits her aunts and mom in sparking her interests in art and in creating.

In art school she sharpened her interests and while there took screen printing as an elective. Lisa says that during that time in her life, “I allowed myself to stumble and find what I was interested in.” Later that screen printing class would influence the work she would create as an artist waay down the line.

Boy, did I love hearing about Lisa’s life and about why she made the decisions she made to get to where she is today. I could have talked to her for ages. I hope you enjoy this conversation as much as I do!

Get in touch with Lisa:   https://www.lisahuntcreative.com/

https://www.instagram.com/creativehunt/?hl=en

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This is How We Create is produced by Martine Severin and edited by Ray Abercrombie.

In this episode of the This Is How We Create podcast we talk with interior designer, Gail M Davis.

Gail Davis Designs is renowned for crafting elegant interiors that feel soulful, livable, and personal. For 15 years, celebrated designer Gail M. Davis has applied her formal design training to homes across the country, transforming houses into her clients’ forever homes.

With a background in the fashion industry, Gail is passionate about using color and textiles throughout her projects. Though her spaces are steeped in classical decorating principles, she is passionate about crafting interiors that are comfortable, functional living spaces. Each client is different, and each space must consider the reality of their lives, not just serve as a beautiful room.

Gail studied at New York School of Interior Design and honed her craft interning at two of New York City’s most prestigious firms—Bunny Williams Inc. and David Kleinberg Design Associates. Her projects have been published in House Beautiful, Elle Decor, AD Pro, Domino, and more.

Get in touch with Gail:  https://www.gaildavisdesignsllc.com/portfolio

https://www.instagram.com/gaildavisdesigns/

Listen to Gail's podcast:  https://www.gaildavisdesignsllc.com/podcast

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Today on the This is How We Create Podcast, international master photographer and Sony Artisan Scott Robert Lim joins us to talk about how he learned to spot and create a catalog of opportunities as an artist even when the unthinkable happens and income streams dry up.

Scott Robert Lim is a certified educator and has over 70 international awards to his name.

For the last decade, he has dedicated his career to developing world-class photographers and loves teaching photographers of all levels. As you’ll be able to tell, Scott has an energetic and charismatic speaking style and is an industry leader in photography education.

Scott shares how he’s managed to create a life and career on his terms. Furthermore, he shares the thinking processes he uses to create a runway to success!

Get to Know Scott Robert Lim: https://www.thisiscolossal.com/

IG https://www.instagram.com/scottrobertlim/

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This Is Colossal https://www.thisiscolossal.com/

Hey there. Welcome back to This is How We Create, I’m your host, Martine Severin, In this episode I not only talk with a delightful person but a talented one at that. Hailey Losselyong is a Chicago based multidisciplinary artist. Hailey when growing up didn’t always know that she would become an artist. She sewed as her grandmother did, and would make friendship bracelets to sell to her classmates.

She went to school thinking she would focus on business, but she turned to visual arts instead .

During out time together, Hailey shares her journey to becoming and artist, talks about her dreams for her and the directions she wants to take with her work in the future.

Just a heads up, there’ll be a long pause around midway through the episode. I’ve left that pause in the show on purpose. Stay with it!

Stay in touch with Hailey: https://hml-design.myshopify.com/

And follow Hailey on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hml.design/

Vault Gallery in Pilsen

In this episode we mentioned the work of Hebru Brantley: https://www.hebrubrantley.com/ and Joy Cho: https://ohjoy.com/

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Welcome back to This is How We Create! In this episode, our host, Martine Severin will walk us through how she aims to live a purposeful life through the creation of a strategic plan and quarterly reviews.  Martine will walk us through the ins-and-outs of creating a review so that you can reflect on your goals thus far in the year and forge a path forward to success.

To follow along and to create your own Quarterly Review be sure to download the PDF handout here.

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My guest Susan J Chen is an award-winning photographer whose work bridges the commercial and fine art world.  She uses a conceptual approach to fashion, portraits, things, and motion.

Her work has been described as cinematic, moody and emotionally charged with color and dark humor.

Susan was chosen by Saatchi Art as one of top 100 women artists in the world.  Her work has been shown in NY, LA, SF, Minneapolis, Tokyo, Miami, and Cataluna, Spain.

Movies:

Keep up with Susan J Chen  https://www.susanjchen.com/

https://www.instagram.com/susanjchen/

In the Mood for Love - Wong kar Wai

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown by Pedro Almodovar

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Hey friends, Martine Severin.  Welcome back to This is How We Create.

Lately, I’ve been thinking about what it means to live in your art—that place where you produce work that pushes you,  the place where you create work that thrills you and work that allows you to be the creative you want to be?

Today in the chair, we’re chatting with someone who proposes a different way of moving towards that goal.  Our guest, Dr Charmain Jackman is a therapist and founder of InnoPsych, an organization on a mission to change the face of therapy and to promote wellness & healing for people of color.

Through this episode, Dr Jackman challenges us on how to we can begin to or continue to steward our mental health to improve our overall well-being and the way in which we create.

Enjoy!

Charmain F. Jackman, Ph.D., is a Harvard-trained, licensed psychologist with over 23 years in the mental health field. Dr. Jackman is the founder + CEO of InnoPsych, Inc., an organization on a mission to change the face of therapy and to promote wellness & healing for people of color. InnoPsych, Inc., is an award-winning organization focused on increasing access to therapy through its online therapist of color directory and thought-provoking emotional wellness programming.

As a change-maker, Dr. Jackman is passionate about the intersection of psychology, mental health, and diversity, equity, and inclusion and has created social impact initiatives that support community members and mental health professionals. She has used her expertise to shape how organizations respond to and support their employees during the COVID-19 and racial violence crises. Dr. Jackman is the recipient of the City of Boston’s 2021 Innovator of the Year Award.

In 2020, Dr. Jackman was the recipient of the American Psychological Association’s 2020 PLC Diversity Award, and was named one of the 50 Most Influential Business People of Color by the Newton-Needham Chamber of Commerce. Dr. Jackman LOVES talking about mental health and is a national spokesperson for mental health and emotional wellness. She has also been featured in both print and TV media outlets locally and nationally.

Learn more about Dr Jackman: www.InnoPsych.com | www.DrCharmainJackman.com.

Follow: @InnoPsych | @AskDrCharmain

Check out our episode on: How to gain clarity when you’re feeling uncertain: https://anchor.fm/martine-severin/episodes/Solo-Episode-How-to-gain-clarity-when-youre-feeling-uncertain-ei4bcn

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This is How We Create has been edited by the lovely Casandra Voltolina

We have Chicago-based artist Myron Laban in the guest chair. As a self-described multi-hyphenate artist, Myron dabbles in painting, in creating music and in his full-time job as a pharmacist.

Myron has one of the best bios I’ve come across, which I’ll read to you just now:

Myron is:

A Young man
Goofy is understated
Pyramids and Sahara skinned
Finger pricks, syringes, and vials full of insulin
CTA rider, Art maker
Converse con strangers with a smile
Makes paint flow like canoes down rivers
Cheerios for breakfast, pushups for dinner
Pill Counting, neon green New Balance
Baby blue scrubs. [As a trained pharmacists he says}
Ask me about your drugs

Our conversation focuses on how to create a positive mindset and to use that mindset to do good work, to be a good person and to use art as a way of healing others.

Get to know Myron Laban

https://myronlaban.com/

https://www.instagram.com/myronlaban/

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This is How We Create is produced by Martine Severin and edited by Ray Abercrombie.

How do you keep yourself motivated with each project you’re taking on? What patterns or processes do you have to launch you into creating new work? How do you motivate yourself past by one, five, 10, 15 and even 20 false starts? How do you motivate yourself to get it done after those failed beginnings?

Today, one of my favorite writer, Edwidge Danticat joins on the show to talk about how she became a writer. As an aside as a young Haitian girl, reading Edwidge’s book inspired me to start thinking that I could be a creator.

Edwidge will share her artistic process-I know! I’m excited for you to listen as well!

Edwidge Danticat is the author of several books, including Breath, Eyes, Memory, The Farming of Bones, Claire of the Sea Light, as well as The Art of Death, and Brother, I'm Dying,  a National Books Critics Circle winner.

She is a two time winner of The Story Prize and a 2009 MacArthur Fellow,  and a 2020 winner of the Vilceck Prize.

Her most recent book, Everything Inside: Stories,  is a 2020 winner of the Bocas Fiction Prize, The Story Prize, and the National Books Critics Circle Fiction Prize. She is a Member of The American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Stay in touch with Edwidge Danticat: http://www.edwidgedanticatsociety.org/

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What convictions that you have? How do you want to live your life and how you want to—if you consider yourself a creator, craft your art. It’s a tender thing to have the courage of your conviction and to know when to be buck convention in order to give birth to something truly novel.

For me, I love rules. Mainly to learn the rules of whatever genre I’m studying so that I can break them and attempt something new. In today’s episode, Nastassja talks to us about her journey to becoming a fiber artist. She’ll share with us how her art helps her to understand Black girlhood in the US. Nastassja’s work will surprise and delight you. Mostly her approach to her work, may give you new perspectives in your own life.

Nastassja Swift is sculptural fiber artist redefining her use of portraiture through wool to create

work that speaks to spirituality, history and place in relation to the body.

Nastassja was recently invited to Penland School of Craft’s Winter Residency as a Distinguished Fellow.

She is the recipient of a 2022 -23 VMFA Fellowship, the 2021 Dr. Doris Derby Award, the Art Matters 2021 Artist2Artist Award, the Black Box Press Foundation 2021 Art as Activism Grant, and the 2020 Virginia Commission of the Arts Fellowship.

Her work has been acquired into the Grace Linton Battle Memorial Fund for the Arts Collection, as well as Quirk Hotel in Charlottesville.

Nastassja Swift is currently living and working in Virginia.

Get to know more about Nastassja:

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This is How We Create and edited and produced by Martine Severin and edited by Ray Abercrombie