The Creativity Cafe

The Creativity Cafe

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The Creativity Cafe episodes

  • When Science Meets Art with Selin Balci

    Originally from Istanbul, Turkey, Selin Balci has lived in the United States since 2003. There, she's blazed her own trail in the field of bio-art, a new direction in contemporary art that utilizes living organisms. Having been a researcher of microscopic pathogens in forests before beginning her art career, Selin's studies questioned how microorganisms exist, interact, and impact our environment.

    Merging those questions with her art practice, her current projects use scientific materials and biological mediums such as mold spores to make the invisible micro-organisms around us visible, and allow us to see the micro-world physically. In her far-reaching and visually stunning pieces, mold spores draw an abstract picture as they transform into a living paint agent. Selin's work invites viewers to reconsider their relationship with the natural world, particularly the microscopic organisms that share our environment and our lives.


    https://selinbalci.com

    https://www.instagram.com/microbialgrowth


    1 hr 16 min
  • Thoughts on Season 2

    In this episode Paige and Jordana talk about the themes that came up over season 2, what resonated with them, and what they are both working on at the moment.


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    https://instagram.com/thecreativitycafe21


    Paige Baldwin Ando


    https://www.wholeselfcreative.com

    https://instagram.com/wholeselfcreative


    Jordana Matsuda


    https://www.jordana-matsuda.com

    https://www.instagram.com/jordanaillustration

    47 min
  • The Art of Global Living with Karen M. Ricks
    As a worldschooler, a chef, and a yoga instructor, Karen Ricks weaves learning into everything she does. Having lived in over a dozen countries on four continents as she educates, cooks, and soaks up her own learning, Karen's work intertwines the cultures she comes into contact with and honors their roots and their variety. Play takes a prominent role in all she does, bringing the joy that's inherent in learning to the very forefront of all she does.
    Learn more about Karen:
    https://ourkitchenclassroom.com
    https://www.instagram.com/karenm.ricks
    Paige Baldwin Ando
    https://www.wholeselfcreative.com
    https://www.instagram.com/wholeselfcreative
    Jordana Matsuda
    https://www.instagram.com/jordana_illustration
    1 hr 31 min
  • Building Sewing Confidence with Aims Watts

    Hailing from Canberra, Australia, Aims Watts has lived in six different countries and is about to make Fiji the next! Her most long-lasting home outside Australia has been Japan, where she started Indy Bindy Fabrics, featuring unique fabrics lovingly made by extraordinary artisans throughout Japan.

    Aims's love of fabrics and sewing drives her creative work, and people seek her out for her help in crafting pieces they truly love. For Aims, it comes down to three things: expressing who she is through the clothing she creates, supporting indie artists who create the fabrics in her shop, and sparking the creativity of other sewists through her signature membership, The Sewciety.

    Want to join Aims in her Sewciety? Click HERE to join her membership.


    https://www.indybindy.com.au

    https://www.instagram.com/indybindyfabrics/?hl=en


    Paige Baldwin Ando

    https://www.wholeselfcreative.com

    https://www.instagram.com/wholeselfcreative


    Jordana Matsuda

    https://www.instagram.com/jordana_illustration


    57 min
  • Trusting the Inner Voice with Caroline Storie

    Originally from the UK, Caroline Storie now makes her home on the stunningly beautiful Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada. After years of working with stitching on paper, Caroline is currently in the midst of a shift where she's exploring other creative pulls. Her current interest is in expressing feelings and experiences through a variety of shapes--deconstructing images and then stitching them together again to reimagine them. Caroline is also a creativity coach, and brings her characteristic vivaciousness and verve to her creative community, both online and off.  





    Paige Baldwin Ando

    https://www.wholeselfcreative.com

    https://www.instagram.com/wholeselfcreative


    Jordana Matsuda

    https://www.instagram.com/jordana_illustration

    https://www.jordana-matsuda.com














    1 hr 23 min
  • The Joy of Podcasting with Jayne Nakata

    Originally from New Zealand, Jayne Nakata is the award-winning host of the #1 podcast for international women living in Japan: Transformations with Jayne. She's also the co-host of the Japan and NZ business podcast, Jandals in Japan. In 2021, Jayne started PodLaunch with Jayne, which helps podcasters around the world to launch and run their own show. Jayne’s PodLaunch Family is a growing network of podcasts that focus on community and empowering women. 


    Find out more about Jayne here:


    https://www.jaynenakata.com/

    https://www.instagram.com/transformationswithjayne


    Paige Baldwin Ando

    https://www.wholeselfcreative.com

    https://www.instagram.com/wholeselfcreative


    Jordana Matsuda

    https://www.instagram.com/jordana_illustration

    59 min
  • The Importance of Home with Elle C. Wolfe

    From her home near Atlanta, Georgia, in the United States, Elle C. Wolfe ushers her interior design clients into environments that reflect who they really are. Working with mood boards to guide the experience, she leads people from a home environment they might not really like, to one that evokes positive feelings for them--while ignoring what's trendy or trite. 


    Find out more about Elle here:


    https://www.instagram.com/atlanta_interior_designer/


    https://ellecwolfe.com/


    Paige Baldwin Ando


    https://www.wholeselfcreative.com


    https://www.instagram.com/wholeselfcreative/


    Jordana Matsuda


    https://www.instagram.com/jordana_illustration

    1 hr 19 min
  • Lifting Our Voices with Annie Nakahara-Knight
    From Scotland to England to France to Japan, Annie Nakahara-Knight has brought her love of music-making along with her every step of the way. Passionate about sharing music with everyone, regardless of their background or training, Annie has led various groups and classes in strengthening connection through making music. As a teacher of Music Together classes for young families and the leader of MotherSong, a Tokyo-based group for women to sing together, Annie uses her skills to bring forth the vocal creativity of all the people she works with.
    Find out more about Annie here:
    http://www.albamusictogether.com
    https://www.facebook.com/tokyomothersong
    https://instagram.com/mothersongjapan
    Paige Baldwin Ando
    https://www.wholeselfcreative.com
    https://www.instagram.com/wholeselfcreative
    Jordana Matsuda
    https://www.instagram.com/jordana_illustration
    1 hr 10 min
  • A Journey Through Creativity and Motherhood: An Interview with Helena Svendsen
    Having made her home in 8 different countries over the course of her life, Helena Svendsen's work explores the nature of a different form of home: the body of a woman, specifically as it takes on the role of mother. 
    Through her own experience becoming a mother, Helena's attention fell to the ways motherhood changes us on an alchemical level, as well as the ways motherhood is overlooked, undervalued, and misinterpreted. Her first installation, called "Altar To My First Home" created a sacred space for the mother archetype and triggered deep emotions in those who attended, evoking primal memories of feminine power and belonging.
    Reconnecting with herself as a woman and an artist after becoming a mother, Helena has created for us all a portal into that same kind of remembering, and that same source of strength.
    https://www.instagram.com/bollegirl/?hl=en
    Paige Baldwin Ando
    https://www.wholeselfcreative.com
    https://www.instagram.com/wholeselfcreative
    Jordana Matsuda
    https://www.instagram.com/jordana_illustration
    1 hr 7 min
  • When in Doubt, Draw: An interview with Divya Marie Kato

    Divya Kato is a British-Indian artist and educator who has been working in Japan for over seventeen years and drawing since receiving her first pack of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle crayons.


    From an art scholarship to The Royal Masonic School, to a Fine Art degree that led her to Tokyo where she set up her own atelier and drawing school, art has been the golden thread running through her life.  

    Divya's work in art education spans preschools to universities, corporations to cross-cultural collaborations such as The Big Draw Japan.  Her work as an artist exists in collections both in Japan and abroad.  

    She draws inspiration from the Reggio Emilia approach to childhood education and the key principles of teachers as learners, the hundred languages of children, the classroom as a third teacher and involving the local community. 

    Divya loves large-scale, collaborative art projects.  Creating North Peak's first mural was the highlight of her summer and she hopes it'll be the first of many!

    During the pandemic, she became a mother of two to Ollie and Georgie: arguably her best creations to date.


    Find out more here:


    Divya Marie Kato

    https://www.divyamariekato.com/


    https://www.instagram.com/divyamariekato/?hl=en


    Paige Baldwin Ando

    https://www.wholeselfcreative.com

    https://www.instagram.com/wholeselfcreative


    Jordana Matsuda

    https://www.instagram.com/jordana_illustration


    1 hr 20 min

About The Creativity Cafe

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For the creatively adventurous, this is The Creativity Cafe Podcast. Hosts Paige and Jordana answer your questions about creativity, share ideas to spark your creative practice, and interview creatives from all over the world. So grab a cup of tea and join us in discovering new creative landscapes, here on The Creativity Café.