I Like Your Work: Conversations with Artists, Curators & Collectors Erika b Hess

I am a huge advocate for inclusive communities as essential for our growth. In this episode, I share three reasons community is vital and two ways to build your community. I also share about my personal experience at Chautauqua as a student and how I am thrilled to be the new Artistic Director of Chautauqua Visual Arts.
 First off, community is a source of comfort for artists. The creative journey can be isolating, with long hours spent working alone. In a community, you find others who understand and can support you through the tough times.
Secondly, being part of a creative group means you're constantly learning. Other artists have their unique skills and insights, and when you share ideas, everyone benefits. Not only do we get to learn about new mediums, but we also can share our life experiences. 
Lastly, communities open doors to opportunities and fun. Collaborations and projects often emerge from these connections, broadening your artistic horizons and bringing joy to your work. 
 
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Naomi Vladeck is a certified life coach devoted to advancing the work of independent artists and creatives through her company Creativity Matters Coaching. She has been working with and around independent artists for thirty years as a planner, performer, nonprofit founder, and as a life coach. She holds a masters in Performance Studies and a certification in mindful leadership practice - both from NYU. The experience of her husband’s alcoholism and death led to her writing debut: Braving Creativity, Artists Who Turn the Scary, Messy, Thrilling Path of Change into Courageous Transformation. 
 
Naomi has a gift for turning crisis and confusion into courage and clarity so that artists can become the creators of their lives. In the spirit of embracing big change, Naomi just sold her home, sent her daughter off to college and is about to embark on a book tour to take her coaching work to as many artists as she can! When not traveling to ice hockey games with her now fifteen year old son, Naomi is dreaming up ways to inspire artists to embrace change and find the courage to create the life and work they love!
 
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@creativitymatterscoaching
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Over the summer, I had the amazing opportunity to run our first international artist retreat to Oaxaca, Mexico. It was an incredible time filled with connection between artists and discovery. This week, I share about our trip and also share how I get out of my own head to see my day-to-day differently. We can’t always hop on a plane to get out of our routine, so I wanted to share how I “switch my lens” when I feel like I am in a bit of a rut. This allows me to generate new ideas for my work and rediscover my own lightness in life. 
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Jennifer Coates is an artist working in Brooklyn, NY and Lakewood, PA. Her work was featured in Untitled, Miami in December 2022 in a solo booth with High Noon Gallery. Recent solo shows include Para Pastoral at Pamela Salisbury Gallery, Hudson, NY; Lesser Gods of Lakewood, PA at High Noon Gallery; and Pagan Forest, West Chester University. She has been in numerous group shows, including an exhibit centered around the drawings of Marsden Hartley at the Bates College Museum of Art in Lewiston, ME; Unnatural Nature: Post Pop Landscapes at Acquavella Galleries in NYC and Palm Beach, FL, curated by Todd Bradway, and Psychedelic Landscape at Eric Firestone Gallery, NYC. She is the 2021 recipient of the John Koch Art Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a 2021 NYFA Award in painting, a 2019 Fellowship at the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, and a Sharpe Walentas Studio residency (2018-2019). Her work has been written about in Hyperallergic, BOMB Magazine, the Brooklyn Rail and Two Coats of Paint, among other publications.
LINKS: 
www.jenniferlcoates.com
www.instagram.com/jennifercoates666
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Artist Shoutout: 
Jackie Gendel 
Lisa Sanditz
Elizabeth Glaessner 
Inka Essenhigh
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This week, I'm sharing a special bonus episode of Season 5! This episode is from an interview I did on the Create! podcast hosted by Ekaterina Popova, artist, coach, and founder of Create! Magazine and Alicia Puig, CEO of PxP Contemporary.  We talk about a lot of different topics including our open call experiences, mindset as an artist and the Creative Business Handbook which was written by Kat and Alicia and just recently released. 
 
Links:
 

https://www.createmagazine.com/podcast
The Creative Business Handbook

 
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LaiSun Keane is a contemporary art gallery located at Sowa Art District in Boston with a focus on providing a platform for non-mainstream voices. The gallery was born in the Covid19 pandemic so it has a strong focus on producing online content and new ways of art presentation and art sales through price transparency. Our stable of artists consists of both local and International artists, and we mount eight to nine virtual and in-person exhibitions annually.



 





Today, LaiSun joins me to chat about opening a gallery during the pandemic and how she was able to use technology and social media to grow the gallery's presence. 
 
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@laisun_keane
 






 









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