We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Mary Kinzelberg . We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Mary below.
Mary, so excited to have you with us today. So much we can chat about, but one of the questions we are most interested in is how you have managed to keep your creativity alive.
I take many many classes in person and on line. I look at other art on line, in museums, and art shows. I read books on creativity and teach art classes. I look at utube and Instagram. I talk to other artists about their creativity issues and their struggles and their story. I look at how children do art and how free they are. I take lots of nature walks and look at what nature has given us all in color, design, and structure. These all help me to keep my creativity alive.
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?
I have been doing some form of creativity and art all my life. From being a milliner, jewelry designer, landscape designer, journal maker and painter which is also involving assemblage and collage. What is so exciting is how I can change creative fields because I am changing and I feel emboldened by being able to honor the changes by expressing myself in all these areas. I know when the process is satisfying and not to just aim for the finish line.
If you had to pick three qualities that are most important to develop, which three would you say matter most?
Be yourself and don’t try to copy anyone but look at other work to inspire you and know what all the materials and tools are so you can try them all and then choose the ones that are you. Work a lot but when you are burned out take breaks. Do not work if you know you need a break.
Get inspired before you go in the studio or place of work by thinking of something you really want to do or by looking at other people’s art or by reading something. Sometimes work knowing you are not inspired because sometimes you will become inspired by being around your own stuff in your studio or place where there are things around that inspire you like a bulletin board of inspirational things that mean something to you.
One of our goals is to help like-minded folks with similar goals connect and so before we go we want to ask if you are looking to partner or collab with others – and if so, what would make the ideal collaborator or partner?
I would like to collaborate with more artists in my area in person. It’s a great feeling to talk to other artists and when I do it feels like a weight has lifted. I feel I need to go to more group showings and meetings and art shows to become closer with more artists. I tend to just go in my studio and not engage with other artists. That’s really something that would bring me more joy and fun in my field.
Contact Info:
- Website: Marykinzelberg.com
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