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How did you start your career as a multidisciplinary artist & creative?
My soul’s call to create has been resonating since my childhood summer art camps with Mrs. Denton – early arts education is important! That spark burned brightly throughout school and fused with my studies in fashion design and business. My journey selling art began in college when I was tasked with raising money for charity and I never looked back.I moved to New York to work in fashion, but as my creative side-hustles grew organically, I could no longer ignore that inner call. I quit my job in November 2021 and now work as a full time artist, stylist, and brand consultant.My favorite part of life as a multidisciplinary creative is how my projects play and build off of each other. Color combos I create while painting inspire the next look I style for an event; reviewing street style photos from that event inspire my next fashion illustration for an emerging brand; that emerging brand I illustrate does really cool things on Instagram which I can recommend to other brands I consult… you get it! This playground of endless connected dots and opportunities is what keeps me motivated.
What's your favorite part about the New York creative community?
I love how everyone in the New York creative community, through their craft, has a different way of celebrating the mundanities and magic that make up this city (the best one in the world!)Whatever creatives put their hands to - fashion, music, ceramics, photography - you can feel the ethereally gritty heartbeat of life in New York like a fingerprint signature.I celebrate this city through painting to harness an ideal emotion for a space, as well as through prints of my favorite spots in the city like Dante West Village or Tartine. As we’ve learned recently, shops and storefronts can morph quickly, so I want to capture the façades that capture me before they change.
What's inspiring you right now?
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