Show Up or Shut Up with Wendy Solganik

Tania Ahmed is a freelance art and craft content creator, video maker and teacher based in the UK. Over the years, she has blended her multicrafts experience to hone her mixed media and papercraft work. Originally from Pakistan, Tania draws her inspiration from diverse cultures, bright colours, bold graphic design, and eclectic patterns. She has been published in several creative magazines, and cu...

Julie Fei-Fan Balzer is an artist living and working outside of Boston, MA. Her business, Balzer Designs, is focused on helping others be more creative with more confidence. Julie believes that curiosity is the key to creativity and she shares this philosophy in her art workshops, during creative coaching sessions, and across social media. You can find Julie at http://balzerdesigns.typepad.com and...

Mancunian born Liz Constable made New Zealand her home in 1989. A curious creator known for her love of experimenting, keeps Liz’s art practice fresh as she delves into her creativity pushing through boundaries. Teaching has been the one constant throughout her three businesses as an early childhood centre owner, a career/life coach and now a teacher of book arts. Liz is the author of four books a...

A client recently said to Laurie, “Everyone should have a Laurie Jacobsen in their back pocket!” Laurie loves being that for people…their back-pocket business advisor. Every product she creates is designed to make make small business owners’ lives easier, to remove technology stress, & help them find ways to easily grow their business. Her goal for every client’s website she builds, is to create s...

Caylee Grey is the host of Get Messy and a South African perfectionist currently pursuing imperfection. More often than not, you’ll find her nurturing creativity as the resident Fairy Artmother for her growing community of artists in Get Messy, swapping bad puns with her very patient husband, wrestling her son’s snacks away from her tiny but determined dog, and emptying her thoughts onto the page....

Roxanne Padgett has been creating stuff and making messes since she was 4 or 5 years old using whatever materials she could find around the house. Usually it was paper, magazines, old books, tape, glue and items collected from nature. She does the same thing today but now we call it "Mixed Media". She believes that everyone is creative and she loves to support her as well as others' creative proce...

Melanie April is a curious, creative thinker who likes to tinker with water and color. She enjoys a quiet life in southwest Florida. Nature and the mystical are constant inspirations for her paintings and life. Color is her guide. She aspires to have her work and classes make people feel good and remember the simple and beautiful things that are all around us. In this way, she considers it her lif...

Creativity has always been a large part of Leaca’s* life. She believes that everyone is a creative, some people just have not discovered their passion yet. Her goal is to share the message, “Go Forth and Create!” Mixed media is her love. She thrives on the freedom of working in any Leaca combines watercolor, ink, acrylics, fabrics-everything is fair game. Living in Alaska, Leaca is surrounded by b...

Ali has been blogging about paper crafts and book arts since the internet dark ages of 2007. Teaching others to express their creativity through handmade books is her greatest joy. She believes that anyone can create a handmade book and it shouldn’t require expensive tools or equipment. Her students appreciate the way she breaks down the most complicated bookbinding projects into manageable and ea...

Aimee is a lifelong creative and maker. Finding solace and healing within the pages of her own journal she decided that sharing this most precious process with others was one of her greatest passions. She has hosted in person gatherings and workshops, taught online and built 2 beautiful and nurturing public studio spaces where people could come and explore mixed media art and community as a healin...

Join Wendy and Seth as they discuss Seth’s 20 year journey as a prolific mixed media artist and then traveling instructor. You can find Seth at http://Seth Apter.com and Wendy at http://willawanders.carrd.co

My thoughts and on a letter I received from a listener who is in a real artistic funk.

Andrea Chebeleu is the artist owner of A Work of Heart Studio in San Jose, California, a magical art store/art workshop space. You can find her on Instagram @aworkofheartstudio and you can find all of her offerings at http://aworkofheart.com

Does looking at other people’s art on social media leave you demotivated instead of inspired? If you know how that feels, this just may be the episode for you.

Join me as I interview mixed media artist Megan Whisner-Quinlan, a busy, working mother of four who manages to make more amazing art in her spare time than most people could make if it was their full time job. Megan is a tutorial creator extraordinaire for Ranger Ink and Stencil Girl Products and hopes to be a full time working artist and teacher when her life allows the space for it. You can find...

I’ve been thinking a lot about the subject of “how to find your style” and I’ve got some potentially controversial thoughts about it that I want to share with you. I strongly believe that you cannot force this, and that you must allow for your style to find you. That involves surrender, trying a ton of stuff, listening to your intuition, spending a lot of time making things, and allowing room for...

DeeDee Catron, Mixed Media Artist, Product Designer, Teacher and Business Owner joins us to talk about what she makes, where she gets her inspiration from and so much more. You can find her on Instagram @deedeecatron and @umwowstudio and at http://www. DeeDeeCatron.com and http://www. UmWowStudio.com. Find me, Wendy Solganik, on Instagram @willa.wanders.

I guess today is the day! I’ve launched a podcast and I can’t wait to discuss everything related to making art just for the flow of it.