Mixed media artist and painter Erica Jane Huntzinger was raised in the western suburbs of Chicago. Her parents hail from Maine and Pennsylvania and they drove back there each year to see family and friends all while absorbing and exploring the landscapes and ground they missed. Her immediate family was centered in questioning, learning and growing. Her mother was a psychologist, her father, a minister and Erica was the sister to an adventurous brother. Erica made her way through creative explorations from hundreds of coloring books, mud, rock and stick scapes into multi-media work through the lens of a painter.

We talk about flow, the importance of play, and demystifying the creative process, including how people make creative decisions in their life and how and where people can affect dynamic change for themselves through creative actions.

Takeaways

1. You can affect dynamic change for yourself through creative actions.
2. Be open to asking yourself: why DON’T you do some of the things you aren’t doing?
3. Play helps get you through difficult feelings, which in turn drives your curiosity.
4. Whatever you make, and it doesn’t matter what kind of artist you are, there's somebody out there that's going to like it.

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