For the past year and a half, illustrator Marijke van Veldhoven has been drawing comics about her life as a creative, capturing the feelings and the fears that we all experience.

This week Marijke launches a kickstarter campaign to share a collection of 100 of those comics in a book called Zoo You Mind?

We talk about how she got started as an artist, how receiving feedback from her audience gave her confidence to return to drawing comics, and what she learnt from asking for help.
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Find and follow Marijke online:

website | instagram | LinkedIn

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Links and show notes from the episode:

• Back Marijke's Zoo You Mind? Kickstarter campaign
• Artists mentioned: Egon Schiele and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

My guest on this episode, Gina Morgano, is a radical romantic who believes in using her voice as an instrument of peace.

Gina teaches how to find your voice - both the external voice that has something it wants to sing and the internal voice which has something that it's longing to say. In this episode you'll hear some of Gina's story - how she came to be a performer and singing teacher with a love of learning and sharing other people's stories. [You can read a full transcript of this episode at https://www.studiotimepodcast.com/blog/ginamorgano]

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Find and follow Gina online:

website | Instagram | podcast

Self Care for Singers Facebook Group | The Practice Society
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Links and show notes from the episode:

• The Practice Society is a new collective of curious, dedicated and service-oriented artists ready to dive deep into cultivating purposeful practices in art and life. Through community and conversation, this introductory summer membership explores the pillars of Identity, Wellness and Growth. Artist citizens will receive the tools and accountability to build and support the lifestyle and creative practices that will sustain them for the long-haul, helping them to claim agency over their creativity and make meaningful contributions through their humanity and artistry.
• Be a Curator: Gina's blog post about creation and curation
• Your $5K Hour: Why some people pay £385+ to see Beyonce

Learn about the Audience by Design workshop here.

Dana Ray works with unboxable leaders to name their work, and tell the true story of what it is about. She is a writer, speaker and facilitator who works with leaders, artists and change-making organisations.

Dana and I talk about one of her earliest memories of using words to document and process her lived experience, the lesson she learned from a Bulgarian hairdresser, and how the process of uncovering your primary verb can help you do more of the work that you were born to do.
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Find and follow Dana online:
website | Instagram
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Links and show notes from this episode:
Sara Dittrich — From passive seeing to active looking, from passive hearing to active listening
Why Fish Don't Exist — A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life by Lulu Miller
Dana speaking at Creative Mornings — Your Shade of Blue
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Art (and artists) need an audience. Your art won't put itself in front people who want to engage with it by accident. For your work to have more significant impact in the world, part of your creative practice — part of being ready — should include building an Audience by Design.

Learn about the Audience by Design workshop here.