Why an Artist Might Become a Creativity Coach

[My next round of creativity coach trainings begins June 1 online. There’s an introduction to creativity coaching training and an advanced creativity coaching training and they can be taken together (many people do). Maybe I’ll see you aboard!) Why might an artist...

Art-Making and the Reenchantment of Meaning

There is something that is very hard to get at: what it actually feels like to be an existential nomad. Ungrounded. Untethered. Disappointed. Disoriented. Not just knowing that the center isn’t holding, but experiencing the center as not holding. It feels something...

Are You an Existential Nomad?

If you happen to be an existential nomad, I want your story! Many artists are! I’m gathering real-life stories for a new book exploring an increasingly common human experience: the life of the existential nomad. An existential nomad is not someone who travels the...

The Emotional Labor of Creative Life

The Emotional Labor of Creative Life [Get your free subscription to the International Association of Creative and Performing Artists newsletter here.] Creative work is often imagined as a kind of effortless inspiration: the artist in a sunlit studio, brush in hand;...