CreativeMornings - 📓 A place to sit with your troubles

May 12, 2022

“The page is a space where I can sit and have compassion with my troubles.”

How do you handle the uncertainty and flux that come with being a creative? When award-winning cartoonist, artist, writer, and graphic recorder Sarah Firth was a child, her mother gave her a blank page and told her she could dance with the pen, in order to still her restless body.

In her CreativeMornings/Melbourne talk, Firth shares how writing and drawing are a way through the uncertainty of life. Her wry, witty illustrations, which include lists of sounds, reviews of bath salts, and a collection of all things bearded, become both a safe place of return and a fertile ground for creative emergence. Watch Sarah Firth’s transporting talk and get inspired to sort through your days on the page.

text "wilderness" overlaid on a photo of Chattanooga

Our upcoming June theme is "Wilderness," chosen by CreativeMornings/Chattanooga. What does “wilderness” mean to you? Whether it’s a story, image, observation, song, poem, or other artifact, you can share your submissions in this form. We’ll feature a round-up of "Wilderness" in next month’s theme announcement!

Photo by Zeke Tucker via Unsplash

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How to create portraits rich in storytelling.

How to cultivate a writing practice based in pleasure.*

How to visualize your way into creative flow.*

Journal like no one will read it and other exceptional advice.

ArtLifting empowers artists who are unhoused or disabled to secure their own income.

Could we have domesticated the T-rex? Off-beat questions in 15 minutes.*

Tell time through satellite photos using the Earth Clock.

What job opportunities are there in the metaverse?

“Don’t ask me where I’m from, ask me where I’m a local.”

The monumental success of Simone Leigh.

Excel is your most overlooked design tool.

A hidden art form you’ll flip for.

*Thanks to Maggie Navin, Deepti Kannapan, and Doug Fraser for the link inspiration.

CreativeGuild Spotlights
A global directory of creative companies and individuals.

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not another diet offers holistic programs that help people heal their bodies and live with joy.

Mixed media assemblage with text "ARISE"

Jen Gordon Creative is a mixed media installation artist, art administrator, public art facilitator, and writer in Hendersonville, North Carolina.

Cool Jobs in Our Universe
Hiring? Looking for work? Check out the CreativeGuild.

Sudowrite is seeking a remote Frontend Software Engineer.

Could you be the new Gallery Manager at the Invisible Dog in Brooklyn, New York?

Council of Michigan Foundations is hiring a part-time Content Specialist in Grand Rapids,
Michigan (remote-friendly).

Apply to be the Product Designer (UI) - Design Consultancy at Frost Talent in Munich, Germany.

Here’s your chance to be Purpose Possible’s new Communications Director - Central Atlanta Progress in Atlanta.

CUSP Collective Inc. is looking for a Senior Motion Designer in Canada (remote-friendly).

This newsletter is like a casual game of table tennis. It matters less to me that I score the point than how long we can sustain the rally, keeping something in motion between us.

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