Hosted by Tiffany Arment and Julia Skott.
Tiff Arment and Julia Skott talk about art and making. They won’t teach you how to turn your creativity into a business. Or how to do anything, really. They just want to talk about doing stuff.
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#57: Routines and Rituals
May 27th, 2020 · 38 minutes
Do you have a special hat you put on to paint? A candle that helps you write? We discuss the rituals and habits we create around our art – and what to do when those rituals don’t, in fact, trick the muse into showing up.
#56: Eating The Elephant One Bite At A Time
May 13th, 2020 · 46 minutes
A listener email has us talking about the differences in getting ready to do BIG projects and smaller ones. Does the giant mountain start to feel smaller after you climb it once?
#55: K. Tempest Bradford and The Power of Narrative
April 29th, 2020 · 53 minutes
Julia talks to writer and podcast neighbor K. Tempest Bradford about being a creative, teaching people how to write, and whose stories get told and by whom. (Content note: There is discussion of racism and some of the less pleasant things that can happen to women and minority groups in literature, especially sci-fi and fantasy.)
#54: Don't Tell Me How To Hobby
April 15th, 2020 · 40 minutes
We take on a listener question about feeling like you’re not doing your hobby right and producing worthy things, and how that can make you hesitate to even do it at all.
#53: Stu-stu-studio
April 1st, 2020 · 44 minutes
A whole room? A rented space? A tiny corner? There are lots of ways to set up a studio for the stuff you make. Not everything will work for all people, but there are a lot of things that can be good to think about.
#52: Give In, Give Up, Let Go.
March 18th, 2020 · 49 minutes
When do you give up on things? Or entire crafts? Basically, we try to answer the fundamental question: ”What IS fun?”
#51: Thank... You?
March 4th, 2020 · 49 minutes
We follow up on leaning into pretention, and then try to figure out how to accept compliments gracefully. Or at all.
#50: To Write With Light
February 19th, 2020 · 52 minutes
Photography! We talk about Tiff’s path to becoming a capital P photographer - and, of course, if photography is Art. Also why pictures with that white frame around them felt so much more fancy when you were a kid.
#49: Little Boxes, All The Same
February 5th, 2020 · 46 minutes
”Your brain is infinite, but your space is limited.” Tiff gets deep when we talk about organizing your materials. By function? By craft? By color? Bye bye?
#48: The Not-So-Distant Future
January 22nd, 2020 · 36 minutes
It’s time to dream and plan for 2020. Not in hindsight. Foresight.
Also: How do you find a new hobby?