Creatives on Camera: Artists and Crafters Using Video to Teach, Sell and Inspire Online
Creatives on Camera explores how artists, makers, and creative educators turn what they know into workshops, courses, and income.
Host Lyric Montgomery Kinard shares real conversations about teaching online, finding students, pricing, simple tech, and building a business that works in the real world. If you want to teach your craft but feel stuck on where to start—or how to make it sustainable—this podcast shows you what’s actually involved.
Episodes
59 episodes
How to Start Teaching Online Without a Big Audience (Quilter Case Study)
You don't need a finished course, a big following, or a perfect plan; you just need to start.That's the quiet truth running through this whole conversation with Lynn Christiansen, quilt pattern designer, former school librarian, and fou...
Creating a Safe Online Community for Artists
What if you stopped trying to reach everyone and started building something real for the people who actually need you?In this episode, I'm talking with Maddie Kertay, founder of the Badass Quilter Society, a values-driven creative commu...
How Artists Can Build a Career Through Connection and IG Live: Michele Muska’s Creative Journey
In this episode, I sit down with Michele Muska, a textile artist, craft industry connector, and the face of the iron brand Oliso. Michele has spent decades doing many things at once: painting, art therapy, product development, publishing, hand ...
YouTube Should Be Your Main Social Media Channel
If social media has been feeling like a constant pressure… like you’re always behind, always needing to post more, but not really seeing the results you hoped for, you’re not alone. I’ve been feeling that too.In this episode, I wanted t...
How to Turn a Handmade Hobby into a Profitable Creative Brand with Jackie Huang
What happens when a 3D artist from Lucasfilm sells out at Comic-Con and realizes he might have a business?In this episode, Jackie Huang, founder of Woolbuddy, shares how a handmade toy for his daughter grew into an international needle ...
Crack the Color Code: Teaching Creativity with Confidence with MJ Kinman
What if you don’t have to eliminate fear before you start teaching?In today’s episode on Creatives on Camera with MJ Kinman, we talk about acting “as if,” pivoting boldly, and choosing joy in your creative business. MJ shares how she le...
Let Go of Perfectionism and Heal Through Watercolor with Madhu Srinivasan
In this episode, Lyric Kinard talks with watercolor artist and educator Madhu Srinivasan about what happens when we stop trying to control our creativity. Once driven by perfectionism, Madhu shares how watercolor taught her to slow down, trust ...
Why Substack Works for Artists Who Teach Online and Value Community
In this episode, Lyric Kinard talks with Kelly Feltault, an artist, social scientist, and certified therapeutic arts facilitator, about building a creative business that honors the realities of chronic illness rather than pushing against them. ...
How a Weaving Teacher Built a Simple Online Business with Kits, Courses, and YouTube
What if growing your creative business didn’t mean doing more, scaling bigger, or teaching everything you know?In this episode, Lucy Jennings shares how she built a calm, sustainable online teaching business by simplifying her offers, f...
Launch Before You Build Debrief
In this solo episode, I walk you through the real results of our first Workshop Pre-Sell Challenge at the Academy for Virtual Teaching. If you have ever delayed teaching because your course “isn’t ready yet,” this is your invitation to do thing...
How Patreon Can Sustain Your Creative Business with Lisa Woolfork
This episode brings back the radiant and powerful Lisa Woolfork, founder of Black Women Stitch and host of Stitch Please Podcast. We move beyond her origin story (
Why Community Is Your Strongest Business Strategy with Anastasia Williams
In this week’s episode, I sit down with Anastasia Williams, founder of the Fiber Business Collective, to talk about what really sustains creative entrepreneurs: community, collaboration, and connection. Anastasia shares how her membership grew ...
How to Build a Successful Creative Business on YouTube ft. Beth Ann Williams
In this episode, I sit down with quilting educator and YouTuber Beth Ann Williams, who has built a thriving online teaching business by doing something many creatives are afraid to do: learn in public.When chronic illness made travel imp...
How to Turn Your Art Into Income with Kimberley Pierce Cartwright
Some artists teach. Some artists build community. But Kimberley Pierce Cartwright does both with a depth of soul that you can feel the moment she starts speaking.In this episode, Kimberley shares her remarkable journey, from sewing chil...
Art as Stress Relief for High-Achievers with Alicia Díaz-Blevins
This week, I’m talking with Alicia Díaz-Blevins, a fluid-art instructor, creative wellness mentor, and business consultant who turned her decades of corporate leadership experience into something beautiful, helping busy professionals decompress...
Claudia’s Cartonnage Journey: Turning Creativity Into Community
Some conversations stay with you long after the recording stops, and this one with Claudia Squio is absolutely that kind of episode.Claudia is the founder of ColorWay Arts, an online school and creative business built around Cartonnage,...
Inside the Black Women Stitch with Lisa Woolfork
What happens when living your truth means losing the community you thought was yours?In this powerful and deeply personal episode, I sit down with Lisa Woolfork, founder of Black Women Stitch and host of the Stitch Please podcast, to di...
How to Build an Online Art Course One Step at a Time with Marcela Strasdas
This week on Creatives on Camera, I talk with Marcela Strasdas, a vibrant painter and art educator from Victoria, BC, whose creative journey proves that you don’t need perfection, you just need to start. Marcela shares how she built her first o...
You Don’t Have to Be Good at Art Because Art Is Good for You with Marianne Gargour
Sometimes, life delivers the most powerful lessons in unexpected ways. My guest, Marianne Gargour, knows this intimately. A professional artist and certified life coach, Marianne transformed her cancer journey into a creative calling, helping o...
Turning a Local Art Store into a Thriving Online Community with Beth Bluestein
I love conversations that remind us how creativity thrives not just in big cities or fancy studios, but in small towns, small spaces, and close-knit communities.In this episode, I talk with Beth Bluestein, owner of Sparrow Art Supply in...
What to Do When It’s Hard: How Your “Why” & Values Can Keep You Going
Let’s be honest, building a creative business isn’t always easy. There are days when the tech breaks, the sign-ups don’t come, or you just feel tired and overwhelmed. I’ve been there too.In this episode, I talk about what keeps us going ...
How Anne Fjeld Built a Knitting Business That Changes Lives
If you’ve ever wondered how to turn your craft into a sustainable business without losing your soul, this conversation is for you. I sat down with Anne Fjeld, a Norwegian knitting designer who transformed burnout and struggle into a thriving te...
Sarah Hurley on Turning Creativity into a Superpower
When I think about what it really takes to grow a creative business, the story of Sarah Hurley always comes to mind. Sarah started her brand with just £40 and a dream, and within five years, built it into a multi-million-dollar company with lic...
Maria Coryell-Martin on Building Art Toolkit and a Sustainable Creative Business
When I first met Maria Coryell-Martin, I was struck by her adventurous spirit; she’s an expeditionary artist who has sketched walruses in Greenland, penguins in Antarctica, and built a business that now reaches creatives worldwide.In th...
Marketing Without Overwhelm: Amberleigh Adoff’s Approach for Creatives
Marketing often feels like the most challenging part of running a creative business, but it doesn’t have to. In this episode, Lyric Kinard talks with Amberleigh Adoff, a former art educator turned surface pattern designer, social m...