Hi Reader,
I've been sending emails about The Emerging Artist Retreat in New Mexico I'm hosting in August.
Two things I want to make clear:
- Your nagging desire to "be more creative" makes this retreat a perfect place for you.
- If you're coming back to your art after a long time, this retreat is perfect for you. Maybe you went to art school 30 years ago, but have't been in your practice for sometime.
You may not use the word artist though.
“But I’ve never published anything.”
"My friends or parter are the real artists."
"I just like to doodle."
"I just craft."
"I don't make art, I'm an entrepreneur."
"I just mess around on the guitar/piano, I'm not a musician."
Here are 10 hills I will die on for you and your art:
#1: Your craft is art.
#2: Your music is art.
#3: Your doodles are art.
#4: Your writing is art.
#5: Your poetry is art.
#6: Your business is art.
#7: Your strategic thinking is art.
#8: All the background support you've given to the real artists is art.
#9: All those ideas you have, they are art.
#10: You are an artist.
Identify the feeling in your body — maybe it's in your chest or throat, belly or hands — identify it.
Tingles. Warmth. Butterflies. Surge.
Whatever the feeling and wherever you're experiencing it, it's your body communicating with you.
You are an artist.
Lots of love,
Annie
I didn't know I was an actual artist until last year. Now I can see how the feeling has been trying to steer me on to the path for literal decades, I'm on it now. Join me.
There are 4 spots open at my retreat this summer. Details here.
Register here by April 14 and I will joyfully extend $750 off + a private coaching session anytime in 2025.
If you have questions, reply to this email or schedule a call here.
Some of my art from the past 8 months
And I swear on my mama I had no idea this was in me. I wasn't a doodler or making art secretly. I literally had no idea. Still very much learning, but like finding out the truth about Santa, I can't unknow it.
