Knock at the Sky: A Creative Journey with Liz Charlotte Grant and Jeremy Grant

Liz Charlotte Grant, Jeremy Grant
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From idea to craft to revision to release, each creative process follows a similar path into the world. Take an artistic journey with creative collaborators and life partners, Liz Charlotte Grant (essayist) and Jeremy Grant (visual artist). Liz and Jeremy, two working artists and married collaborators, describe the pains and triumphs of creating their debut book, Knock at the Sky: Seeking God in Genesis After Losing Faith in the Bible. Liz wrote literary nonfiction essays and Jeremy made 11 fine art collages. Both the writing and the art of Knock at the Sky have received recognition in their respective industries (reviews in Foreword and Publisher’s Weekly; an award from Contemporary Collage Magazine). In a series of 4 candid conversations, Liz and Jeremy discuss the stages of making - idea, craft, revision, release. And they use their particular creative processes as a guide. Offering humor, sage advice, inspiration, and consolation to their fellow creatives, artists, and art-appreciators, they encourage their listeners to keep making art, offering their own experiences as a guide. No matter how painstaking the process, they believe that making art is the most meaningful way to spend a life. Making art is worth it. /About Liz and Jeremy/ Liz Charlotte Grant is an award-winning essayist who has published in the Huffington Post, Hippocampus, Brevity, Religion News Service, and elsewhere. Her substack, the Empathy List, has twice been nominated for a Webby Award. Jeremy Grant is a multidisciplinary artist who works as a designer and has shown his paper collages, illustrations, assemblages, and sculptures in galleries across the American West.

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    TEASER: Welcome to Knock at the Sky: A Creative Journey

    From idea to craft to revision to release, each creative process follows a similar path into the world. Take an artistic journey with creative collaborators and life partners, Liz Charlotte Grant (essayist) and Jeremy Grant (visual artist).  Liz and Jeremy are two working artists who collaborated on the book project, Knock at the Sky: Seeking God in Genesis After Losing Faith in the Bible. And in this podcast series, we follow the steps of the creative process to discuss the ups and downs of making art with your partner in tow. We're inviting you into our living room where you can participate in our deep and funny conversations about the artistic life, particularly about the way that this multidisciplinary book came into being. Just as the book of Genesis is a book of origins, so this podcast gives you the origin story behind the book. (See what we did there?)    In a time of political unrest, we hope this podcast is inspires you to create art as resistance, a way of making a life that builds beauty even where there is none.    /About Liz and Jeremy/ Liz Charlotte Grant is an award-winning essayist who has published in the Huffington Post, Hippocampus, Brevity, Religion News Service, and elsewhere. Her substack, the Empathy List, has twice been nominated for a Webby Award. Jeremy Grant is a multidisciplinary artist who works as a designer and has shown his paper collages, illustrations, assemblages, and sculptures in galleries across the American West.

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From idea to craft to revision to release, each creative process follows a similar path into the world. Take an artistic journey with creative collaborators and life partners, Liz Charlotte Grant (essayist) and Jeremy Grant (visual artist). Liz and Jeremy, two working artists and married collaborators, describe the pains and triumphs of creating their debut book, Knock at the Sky: Seeking God in Genesis After Losing Faith in the Bible. Liz wrote literary nonfiction essays and Jeremy made 11 fine art collages. Both the writing and the art of Knock at the Sky have received recognition in their respective industries (reviews in Foreword and Publisher’s Weekly; an award from Contemporary Collage Magazine). In a series of 4 candid conversations, Liz and Jeremy discuss the stages of making - idea, craft, revision, release. And they use their particular creative processes as a guide. Offering humor, sage advice, inspiration, and consolation to their fellow creatives, artists, and art-appreciators, they encourage their listeners to keep making art, offering their own experiences as a guide. No matter how painstaking the process, they believe that making art is the most meaningful way to spend a life. Making art is worth it. /About Liz and Jeremy/ Liz Charlotte Grant is an award-winning essayist who has published in the Huffington Post, Hippocampus, Brevity, Religion News Service, and elsewhere. Her substack, the Empathy List, has twice been nominated for a Webby Award. Jeremy Grant is a multidisciplinary artist who works as a designer and has shown his paper collages, illustrations, assemblages, and sculptures in galleries across the American West.

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