Your Creative Midlife
Your Creative Midlife. With host Betsy Bush.
I’m talking to people who are exploring the creative life post-career or as empty nesters: painting, writing, making music, theater, and film making. What about you? Is this the time to write that book? Return to arts you enjoyed as a kid or teen? Curious to try something new?
Here’s the thing: It’s never too late to bring a creative practice into your life. My guests talk about the satisfaction they find as they develop their new skills. They also share the uncertainty and fear they felt when they started and the confidence they gained as they kept at it and their skills developed. Even better: their definition of success is their own. Where do you want to go? Dare to follow your muse.
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Your Creative Midlife
No Rules, Endless Possibilities: Collage Artist Lela Goldstein
Sometimes the first step in your midlife creative journey is to look back at the things you loved as a kid. For Lela Goldstein, it was building on her love of paper, images, colors and patterns that led her to explore the world of collage. As she approached retirement, she discovered collage as an ideal creative outlet: with “just scissors and paper and glue and something to put your images on,” collage offers endless creative possibilities with minimal investment. Starting just before the pandemic, Lela’s work has continued to grow and explore as she has joined on line groups that encourage, share and critique others’ collage work. Most recently, she took part in the Kolaj Institute’s 2023 seminar in New Orleans and her collage was chosen for the cover of the book, Magic in the Modern World, by Ric Kasini Kadour. She has recently moved to a new community and has joined an arts group, showing that arts practice can help connect you to a new
community.
Collage has a lot to offer the beginner
Doesn't require extensive technical skills and or expensive tools
Offers endless creative possibilities with no strict rules
Source materials can come from old magazines, greeting cards, receipts,
stamps, children's books, and game pieces found at book fairs, antique malls,
flea markets, thrift stores
Collage books and videos are available for beginners. Search collage techniques
on YouTube or follow collage artists on Instagram
Check out Collage Lab, an online community run by artist Kelly Schaub, makes it
easy to interact with other collage artists.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLvVfMkQBnY
-http://kolajmagazine.com/content/
-https://www.instagram.com/lelaco/?hl=en
-https://kolajmagazine.com/content/content/collage-books/magic-in-the-modern-world/
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