Magical Humans

I'm taking a little break. Maybe you should too!

Connect with Vania Vananina at vaniavananina.com and on Instagram @vaniavananina!

Produced by Puddle Creative

Music by Megan Diana

Art by Vania Vananina and Maia Buzbee

Claire and Alanna Saunders are two Pacific Northwest natives who are now actors based in New York City. Claire and Alanna are identical twins who, along with their three brothers, started their musical lives at a very young age. After attending Carnegie Mellon (Claire) and University of Miami (Alanna), the sisters moved to New York City to pursue acting and had immediate success upon their arrival. Claire was cast in the Robert De Niro film The Intern, and Alanna was cast in Peter Pan Live as Tiger Lily.

Connect with Vania Vananina at vaniavananina.com and on Instagram @vaniavananina!

Produced by Puddle Creative

Music by Megan Diana

Art by Vania Vananina and Maia Buzbee

Samantha Bakall is a food, diversity, and travel writer currently based in Portland, OR. Sam is from Chicago, IL, where she was raised by her Chinese grandparents. Food became an important part of her life in her youth, and she has been obsessed with it since she was a teenager. She then made that obsession into a career when she went to journalism school and started writing for The Oregonian. 

Connect with Vania Vananina at vaniavananina.com and on Instagram @vaniavananina!

Produced by Puddle Creative

Music by Megan Diana

Art by Vania Vananina and Maia Buzbee

This year I created an exhibit for Design Week Portland called All The Feels. What is all the feels? Listen and find out what kind of art it is, and why I love making work like this.

Design Week Portland runs April 6-13, 2019, and All The Feels is open every day during the festival from 9 a.m. - 6 p.m.

Connect with Vania Vananina at vaniavananina.com and on Instagram @vaniavananina!

Produced by Puddle Creative

Music by Megan Diana

Art by Vania Vananina and Maia Buzbee

Emily Fassler is a production manager and sound designer based in the Bay Area. Emily has had a love of the theater since she was young, playing James in James and the Giant Peach when she was just five years old! Later in life, with the help of a few key mentors, she discovered aspects of theater other than being on stage that she loved. She now is on the production management team in the theater department at UC Berkeley and spends her summers as a production manager at The Ground Floor, Berkeley Repertory Theatre's incubator program.

Connect with Vania Vananina at vaniavananina.com and on Instagram @vaniavananina!

Produced by Puddle Creative

Music by Megan Diana

Art by Vania Vananina and Maia Buzbee

Tsilli Pines is the Co-Founder and President of Design Week Portland, as well as the VP of Creative at Instrument, a creative agency in Portland, OR. Tsilli was also the host of Creative Mornings in Portland for seven years. 

Connect with Vania Vananina at vaniavananina.com and on Instagram @vaniavananina!

Produced by Puddle Creative

Music by Megan Diana

Art by Vania Vananina and Maia Buzbee

Nilofer Merchant is the author of The Power of Onlyness: Make Your Wild Ideas Mighty Enough to Dent the World. Her theory of onlyness - the idea that each of us stands in a spot in the world only you stand in, it’s a function of your history and experiences and visions and hopes - is lighting up the world and making a way for a new way of thinking.

Connect with Vania Vananina at vaniavananina.com and on Instagram @vaniavananina!

Produced by Puddle Creative

Music by Megan Diana

Art by Vania Vananina and Maia Buzbee

Vania Vananina is a painter, ceramicist, creativity expert and consultant, podcast host, and all around magical human. Born and raised in Ensenada, Baja-California, MX, Vania made Portland, OR her home and immediately delved into the art scene, making connections with other makers and exploring the boundaries of creativity.

Connect with Vania Vananina at vaniavananina.com and on Instagram @vaniavananina!

Produced by Puddle Creative

Music by Megan Diana

Art by Vania Vananina and Maia Buzbee

This week, we’re taking a small break, but I wanted to share with you a thought I had recently about reflecting and celebrating. Are you taking the time to congratulate yourself for your own achievements? To reflect on the things that have happened in your life, whether they are big, small, happy, or sad? This week, I am giving myself the gift of time and recognition. I deserve it, and so do you.

Connect with Vania Vananina at vaniavananina.com and on Instagram @vaniavananina!

Produced by Puddle Creative

Music by Megan Diana

Art by Vania Vananina and Maia Buzbee

Lily Ash Sakula is an illustrator, animator, and educator based in London. Lily started making comics seven years ago and eventually quit their job to pursue art full time. Their work often contains a social commentary on the human experience. These days Lily works with queer youth and elderly populations in London, animating and illustrating explorations of identity, dysphoria, euphoria, past, and future. 

Connect with Vania Vananina at vaniavananina.com and on Instagram @vaniavananina!

Produced by Puddle Creative

Music by Megan Diana

Art by Vania Vananina and Maia Buzbee