This is How We Create

Join us as Jennifer Turner reveals how she turned her artistic dreams into reality, blending traditional methods with cutting-edge AI. Learn about her inspirations, the evolution of her unique style, and how a background in graphic design paved the way for success. Jennifer's story is a treasure trove of insights and advice for anyone eager to push the boundaries of their creativity and share thei...

Summary On this week's episode of This is How We Create, Tobi Shinobi shares his journey from being a lawyer to becoming a successful photographer.  He shares with us how discovered his passion for photography, and the challenges he faced in finding his style in that genre. Tobi emphasizes the importance of maintaining relationships with gateholders and sponsors as a freelancer. He also shares his...

In this episode we remember and celebrate creative life of Lisa Hunt. Lisa was a graphic artist and designer. She shares her creative journey and the influences that sparked her interest in art. From her childhood experiences with her mother and aunt, to studying graphic design at Pratt Institute, to working in magazine publishing, Lisa's career was been a series of explorations and reinventions....

Nicole Crowder is a Furniture Designer + Upholsterer.  As a so-called army brat, Nicole lived around the world, an experience that fostered her appreciation for design and how design is represented around the world.  Prior to finding upholstery, Nicole worked as photo editor an experience that taught her the skills of art direction and love of creating vignettes for her finished upholstery pieces...

Let's create a personal strategic plan! Do you ever think about what your life is like in 5 years? Or even in 3 years? Are you feeling lost in a sea of big dreams and grand plans for your future? Do you find yourself constantly jotting down ideas for new projects, but unsure of how to make them a reality? What if you learned a system to create a personal strategic plan that helps you identify and...

Some people wait to be chosen, hired, or validated. But others don't wait. They make their own path with determination. They use different tools, like guerrilla marketing, to get noticed. Dr. Fahamu Pecou is one of those people. Today on the podcast, you'll hear his inspiring journey from dreams of working as an animator to becoming an award-winning artist. Dr. Pecou studied painting, when he secu...

I'm so excited to welcome famed member of the group Kassav Jocelyne Beroard, to the podcast today! We truly never know what the future holds for us. The same can be said for Jocelyne who grew up on the island of Martinique in the 1950s and 60s. Though she played piano as a child, Jocelyne never had a career in music in mind as she grew up. As you'll hear, Jocelyne attempted a career in medicine an...

I'm happy to host Jasmine Guillory in the guest chair.  Jasmine started her career out as a lawyer, but fell into writing books after participating in a National Novel Writing Month Challenge. Since then she has written over 8 books.  Her most page turning and delightful book, Drunk On Love is widely available.   During our time together, Jasmine and I talk about how she came to find her voice as...

Have you ever wondered how a movie gets made? Or better yet, where do the ideas from movies come from? And if you're like me, a person who has her eyes set on making a short film, wouldn't it be great if there were someone there to help you buff up your idea and make the end product simply spectacular? Shannan E. Johnson, is a former creative executive at NBCU/The Syfy Channel. She left her full-t...

Have you ever wondered what an artist's week looks like? In this episode, photographer and This is How We Create Host walks her through a week in her work life. How do your weeks go? Please share your favorite moment from this past week by sending us an email hello@martineseverin.com. Keep up with your host Martine Severin https://martineseverin.com/ Follow This Is How We Create on IG.  https://ww...

Welcome back to This is How We Create. My name is Martine Severin your host. I'm excited to welcome Lisa Hunt is artist and designer. Lisa has had a wide-ranging career as a creative, from doing work as a graphic designer, to becoming a magazine editor credits her aunts and mom in sparking her interests in art and in creating. In art school she sharpened her interests and while there took screen p...

In this episode of the This Is How We Create podcast we talk with interior designer, Gail M Davis. Gail Davis Designs is renowned for crafting elegant interiors that feel soulful, livable, and personal. For 15 years, celebrated designer Gail M. Davis has applied her formal design training to homes across the country, transforming houses into her clients' forever homes. With a background in the fas...

Today on the This is How We Create Podcast, international master photographer and Sony Artisan Scott Robert Lim joins us to talk about how he learned to spot and create a catalog of opportunities as an artist even when the unthinkable happens and income streams dry up. Scott Robert Lim is a certified educator and has over 70 international awards to his name. For the last decade, he has dedicated h...

Hey there. Welcome back to This is How We Create, I'm your host, Martine Severin, In this episode I not only talk with a delightful person but a talented one at that. Hailey Losselyong is a Chicago based multidisciplinary artist. Hailey when growing up didn't always know that she would become an artist. She sewed as her grandmother did, and would make friendship bracelets to sell to her classmates...

Welcome back to This is How We Create! In this episode, our host, Martine Severin will walk us through how she aims to live a purposeful life through the creation of a strategic plan and quarterly reviews.  Martine will walk us through the ins-and-outs of creating a review so that you can reflect on your goals thus far in the year and forge a path forward to success. To follow along and to create...

My guest Susan J Chen is an award-winning photographer whose work bridges the commercial and fine art world.  She uses a conceptual approach to fashion, portraits, things, and motion. Her work has been described as cinematic, moody and emotionally charged with color and dark humor. Susan was chosen by Saatchi Art as one of top 100 women artists in the world.  Her work has been shown in NY, LA, SF,...

Hey friends, Martine Severin.  Welcome back to This is How We Create. Lately, I've been thinking about what it means to live in your art—that place where you produce work that pushes you,  the place where you create work that thrills you and work that allows you to be the creative you want to be? Today in the chair, we're chatting with someone who proposes a different way of moving towards that go...

We have Chicago-based artist Myron Laban in the guest chair. As a self-described multi-hyphenate artist, Myron dabbles in painting, in creating music and in his full-time job as a pharmacist. Myron has one of the best bios I've come across, which I'll read to you just now: Myron is: A Young man Goofy is understated Pyramids and Sahara skinned Finger pricks, syringes, and vials full of insulin CTA...

How do you keep yourself motivated with each project you're taking on? What patterns or processes do you have to launch you into creating new work? How do you motivate yourself past by one, five, 10, 15 and even 20 false starts? How do you motivate yourself to get it done after those failed beginnings? Today, one of my favorite writer, Edwidge Danticat joins on the show to talk about how she becam...

What convictions that you have? How do you want to live your life and how you want to—if you consider yourself a creator, craft your art. It's a tender thing to have the courage of your conviction and to know when to be buck convention in order to give birth to something truly novel. For me, I love rules. Mainly to learn the rules of whatever genre I'm studying so that I can break them and attempt...

Welcome back to  the This is How We Create podcast. I'm your host, Martine Severin. A few months ago, I hosted a talk with Portland Maine Photographer, Sean Alonzo Harris where he shared his images from past exhibitions. Today I'm sharing an episode of American Photographic's Artists' Series called Scope with you. While this conversation will be slightly different than our general This is How We C...

Today, our guest Farissa Knox, who is a Chicago-based author, producer and entrepreneur. Farissa is Founder and CEO of RLM Media, an integrated marketing and communications advertising agency, and WhatRUWearing (WRUW) Productions. As will become evident through our conversation, Farissa is a visionary creative executive, passionate storyteller and tastemaker. She shares the insider journey of crea...

How you wondered how some people manage to craft a path towards their dreams and goals even when they haven't a roadmap to get to where they want to go? They don't quite know how things will go, but they take one step at at time towards their true North. This episode details Nathalie Gordon's story. Much like many of the artists we've featured on This is How We Create, Nathalie possesses the convi...

On the podcast today, we're chatting with photographer Thalia Gochez. When I first came across Thalia work, I gasped. She creates portraits of the womxn in her neighborhood in a tender yet commanding way.  She arrests your attention to convey her love and respect for her subjects. A print of Thalia's work hangs proudly in my home. Each time I pass this image of two young women sitting on a stoop,...

I'm excited to welcome architect and design tastemaker Obiora Nwazota to the show! Obiara will talk to us about how his experience in design and architecture and understanding of Igbo culture aided him in writing a successful children's book.  Through his writing and work, Obiora normalizes stories that celebrates Igbo culture and provides us with a different lens through which to view Black cultu...