
Representation Mentors Young Creatives
Hello and welcome back to my Creative Advocacy Blog. I'll start this by telling a story from my childhood. When I was young, adults asked me the same question they asked every child. "What do you want to be when you grow up?" Most didn't care about the carefully constructed answer I prepared. They just wanted to pat my head and smile at my lovely, innocent remarks. One day, my father's mother asked me what I wanted to be, and I gave her the same answer I'd given everyone. "I

Honey vs Vinegar
Hello once again to the creative advocacy blog. Today I would like to discuss the use of positive reinforcement as opposed to negative critique. As I have stated before, I'm a writer and an artist. I graduated from the Ringling College of Art and Design, and I've worked in a number of art related fields throughout my career. From the beginning, it was nailed into my head that to do this thing called art, I had to get used to critique. Putting your work up on the wall and havi