We begin with a bit of a rant, sharing our frustrations, expectations, and interactions in our communities. Community is about share and support of each other and realization is that artists need a supportive community in order to put their work out into the world for scrutiny and rejection.  It’s time for artists to find their support.

Q for Ig - What is holding you back from being your full self?  Does it matter?

Resources mentioned:

This youtube channel and this video to help you understand your role.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Csu-6LDTl3c

Book: A tribe called bliss by Lori Harder How to build your tribe.

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Rachael Shores is a travel and visionary artist. She works mostly in watercolor,   painting favorite travel scenes or people's visions from dreams and    meditations. She currently lives in Germany with her husband and   working in an Irish pub. Her next big life goal is writing her travel   stories from all 7 continents which will be illustrated by her travel   sketchbooks.

Laumee Fries loves to create art that is both tender and bold. She paints abstract   and figurative paintings with eco-friendly materials, creates textile    art, makes drawings inspired by myths, fairy tales and life itself -    and illustrates her own stories. She lives in Germany with her husband   and her cat and currently works on new textile artworks and a graphic   novel.

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