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
This is the Value of Process Over Product: What I Learned in a Four-Day Collage Workshop on Nantucket
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I’m sharing the results of a collage workshop I took at the Visual Arts Center of the Artists Association of Nantucket, one of the island's major art centers. As a budding collage artist, this was an amazing experience, and it really gave me a chance to do a deep dive for four days in a row with a great instructor and great classmates.
I talk about the different techniques I used in each collage and how I’m discovering the value of process over getting a finished product.
Here are my takeaways:
1. It really is about process over product. If you focus on having something "worthy" to bring home to show people, the experience is less fun.
2. Use materials that you already have (my favorite stop is the Nantucket Dump -- more on this later)
3. Collage is really problem solving; not everything on the canvas has to be paper (you can also use paint).
4. Making art every day is exhausting; so much respect for the professionals.
I hope you've had a summer that's been productive, relaxing, and maybe you've tried something different, maybe you've taken up something new, some ex exploration or some play, because that's what we need to be doing to stay healthy and happy as we continue our creative midlives.
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Learn more about the Artists Association of Nantucket: https://www.nantucketarts.org/
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