Meet Kristin Ballard

We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Kristin Ballard a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.

Kristin, thank you so much for taking the time to share your lessons learned with us and we’re sure your wisdom will help many. So, one question that comes up often and that we’re hoping you can shed some light on is keeping creativity alive over long stretches – how do you keep your creativity alive?

I keep my creativity alive many times; I use music as my muse for my creativity. I’ll allow the music to take me on a journey and I let my mind wonder. While I focus and create. I also go outside see people live life and look and think what type of art they would hang in their home. Or I’m always thinking How my art will live in someone’s home and what will people remember about the work over the years. The art will live in the world forever so why not create it leaving the world a little colorful.

Thanks for sharing that. So, before we get any further into our conversation, can you tell our readers a bit about yourself and what you’re working on?

Garden of the Mind Community club is where I facilitate workshops to ignite creativity and foster artistic skills engaging crafts including painting, jewelry making, and the creation of personalized home decor. The goal is to inspire individuals to express themselves through art while developing new skills and having fun in a community setting.

Looking back, what do you think were the three qualities, skills, or areas of knowledge that were most impactful in your journey? What advice do you have for folks who are early in their journey in terms of how they can best develop or improve on these?

Trust the process, see it through and do it for you. Keep the promises to your future self. Make your childhood self-happy and proud. Trust because that vision was given to you for a reason just do the thing and see where it takes you. No matter what in your present moments be present and take it all in. Allow yourself to feel so you can grow from it. be you and let the world enjoy and celebrate who you are.

Okay, so before we go we always love to ask if you are looking for folks to partner or collaborate with?

Absolutely, those of a like minds that enjoy community as well as crafting. and sharing fun ideas and help each other with content having featured artist events. Allowing to display their work and talents and helping build other creatives talents.

Contact Info:

• Instagram: Houseof_Krisgartistry and Kickass_kris

Image Credits

Kris G.