being known 🕳☁️
being known
Hi beautiful friends, how are things feeling? does someone else know how you feeling?
I think being alive and being a human means wanting to be understood. Even in the stickyness of no-one understands me. I think this is especially true for artists and feelers and creators. We are searching for a vehicle to share something about ourselves, a story, an experience, a lesson, we're here to share. I want to be known, but only in the right, messy and polished and complicated and also unknown way. And then I think of being known TOO MUCH. And what intersections of stories are mine to tell and share? Being known comes with the lasagna layers of complicated of how, why, and who do I share with?
Sharing pieces of our lives + stories + ourselves can become murky when we start doing it OUT LOUD. To display on a gallery wall, in a friends ear buds, infront of a crowd, on Instagram.
And then add the complexities of trying to synthesize your art + stories + being known into a succinct way when someone asks "who are you? what are you about?". To be known and convey these parts of you in a small, white box stuck to the wall with double sided tape, on the about page of your website, or at the bar. A statement, a small declaration of ME AND WHO I AM. Terrifying. Overwhelming. I get it. I feel it.
This is where being clear on your mission on earth is important. Doing the excavation and spending time with why, and why me?! I'm not perfect at it, but these methods work for me. To share in a way that feels okay.
I have teamed up (again) with the ultra brilliant Jacqueline of &Arts to bring you DRAW FROM WITHIN: A Bio writing workshop for artist and creators! I know and get how weird it is to live life out loud and share in a way that feels aligned with what you ACTUALLY DO (or like, what do you actually do?!) Jacqueline's coaching and direction + my gentle bulling/cheerleading + the shared space of digital togetherness we will move through What even is a bio anyway? How do I define myself? What am I doing? What do people need to know about me? and create an artist bio that truly embodies all the good you are doing, and tells the world why they should care! You will walk away feeling grounded in your beliefs and having FINISHED an actual bio to share with the world!
Thursday May 6th 6:30 Pm-8pm EST workshop link sent out the day of, recording available FOREVER if you can't make it live!
More treats for you! Beautimous art in the form of our ARTIST POSTCARD COLLAB PACK! Limited run of artworks created by all the of the beautiful artists we have a collabed with (so far!) in one snack pack of sexy postcards to send to your friend or hang on your walls. I am ultra grateful for these humans, their trust in my weird visions and readers of overly excited all caps emails!
I love you all
thanks for staying committed to art in all it's forms, the world needs you
xx
phoebe
p.s
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