We’re back! This week is all about Hannah Allen soon-to-be-Anderson on Sustaining Craft the Podcast, a series that features those in a creative field. We’re adding video! Watch below or on YouTube, or listen below through Fireside, or simply keep reading to learn more about Hannah Allen and how she wants to shake up the… Read More Hannah Allen: “There’s no shame in starting.”
When Michael got back to the states, he worked for a year to pay off an alto saxophone he found at a pawn shop. His mother paid off the last $60 as a birthday gift. He had to work at his music again, building the skill back up. In addition, he worked a lifetime of jobs at a radio station, as a firefighter, as a teacher, and as a martial artist. He went back to the University of Arkansas for his degree in social work to work with veterans, and he performs as a saxophonist and vocalist while teaching music to children and adults. … Read More Michael Eubanks: “Change your definition of success.”
He’s beautiful.
He’s got a brindle coat with orange eyes, looking like, as a friend of mine noticed, Halloween come to life.… Read More corso
Jessica discovered she was able to grow her business in small steps, building her team a few hours a week at a time. “I hired my first project manager at five hours a week,” said Jessica. “Which I feel like is very encouraging for anybody out there that wants to start a business. You don’t have to have a full-time job offer for someone to get on board with a mission. And I kept it intentional about only designing for local businesses. I’m not going after corporate or big ticket clients because local businesses need good design work.”
Justin produced Papaw Land in 2018, raising just enough through a Kickstarter, investors, and the contributions he and Jessica provided to finish filming. He hopes to make more. “I want to keep making films,” Justin said. “That’s my main thing for me. I’m hoping to progressively step up in terms of budget with the films. Hopefully, we can make a few and reevaluate at that point. I want to keep making movies. I want to do locally. I’d love to eventually get to the point where we can foster a more creative environment in Conway, specifically.”… Read More Jessica and Justin Crum: “There’s no sugar coating it. It is hard.”
And most of my 13 years writing have been about real-world stuff. I’ve dabbled in fiction since I was a child, but I’ve completed very little of it. I often, like many others, like the idea of writing more than I like to actually write, to really delve into the discipline required for the creative process.
Because along with the emotional cost of creating art, there are rough drafts and rewrites and alpha/beta reviews and edits. There’s getting rusty from not practicing or not being consistent.
And as I embraced this challenge, I found myself consumed with doubts about what I was doing and if I should even be doing it in the first place.… Read More true girl
I’d been working a temp assignment at an association since June as a communications director. It had felt, originally, like a dream job. I had a quarterly publication, social media, marketing, writing, editing, and design work to do. I was scheduled to head to a major city this Wednesday for a conference, and I was planning to see a couple of friends I haven’t seen in four years.
And then things started to shift at the association. I would spend hours on a design, only to be told that “Sorry, I just don’t like it,” without any additional direction. I was told fonts had to be the same size across a design, even for different sections. And I was told that designs I created, that were based on decisions made without my input, were simply not good enough. … Read More an association
We’re back! Welcome to the next installment of the second season of Sustaining Craft the Podcast, a series that features those in a creative field. Listen below to learn more or keep scrolling to read about Matthew Castellano and his vision for art in Little Rock. Matthew Castellano couldn’t find a job. He’d moved to… Read More Matthew Castellano: “Keep at it.”
Kathryn LeMaster describes interior design as more than pulling together color swatches and fixtures, but less than creating entire new structures, while combining elements of both. She started with a few other beginner courses to see what it was like. “It was just about exactly what I was hoping that it would be of kind of that sweet spot inbetween decorator and the technical aspect of an architect of getting to be involved in the construction process and technical drawings and all of that, but also the cherry on top, the layers of all the colors and soft furnishings and everything really combined,” LeMaster shared.… Read More Kathryn LeMaster: “Learn from my mistakes. Don’t be as fearful.”
Welcome to the fifteenth episode of Sustaining Craft the Podcast, a series that features those in a creative field. Listen below to learn more or keep scrolling to read about Robert Bean and how he builds visual vocabularies into his art! When he was eight, Robert Bean realized that it was possible to get paid… Read More Robert Bean: “The art always comes first.”
Welcome to the fourteenth episode of Sustaining Craft the Podcast, a series that features those in a creative field. Listen below to learn more or keep scrolling to read about Legenia Bearden and her vision of affordable arts for all! Legenia Bearden knew in the second grade that she wanted to make the arts accessible… Read More Legenia Bearden: “Put in the time.”