Episdoe 11: Emily Romens :|: self-compassion & creativity

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05/19/22 • 83 min

This episode features a conversation with host, Rhonda Willers, and guest, Emily Romens.

Emily’s creative practice has evolved from that of art student to arts administrator to presently new mom. We discuss the importance of self-compassion when it comes to your creative practice and how to recognize when you might be missing or lacking your own creative motion.

Emily shares ways artists can advocate for themselves when they are beginning careers or jobs in arts administration. She offers ideas for how you can ask for your creative practice to be part of your employment agreement.

We also dive into the feelings of shame that bubble up when someone tells us “it’s so easy to make” and yet we are struggling to take that first step and how it requires a lot of energy to be spontaneously creative.

Please enjoy this episode with Emily Romens.

To learn more about Emily’s work and practice, follow her on Instagram: @emlyrmns

Studio Mix #11 :|: Emily Romens
Sexy Villain by Remi Wolf
The Chain by Fleetwood Mac
Happier Than Ever by Billie Eilish
Paralysed by The Staves
Summer Girl by HAIM

Podcasts:
Armchair expert
Lore
This American life
Mike Bribiglia’s Working It Out

Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4BggKksXt1YtOrRBUO9NUV

Emily Romens Brief Biography:
Emily Romens received her BFA in Ceramics from the University of Wisconsin - River Falls in 2017.
I make non-objective objects, based on very objective things. I am an object maker, and a bellyacher. I find myself most attracted to patterns of domestic life - each beautiful, overwhelming, insignificant, sexy, humorous, caring, heavy, vague, charming, ordinary, moment. How I get my hands moving has changed a lot over the last five years, but the wonders of my gross domestic life has remained. I am now a mother to my child, the first human who has ever deserved my mothering. And somewhere in there is that object maker.

Episode page: https://theartistinmeisdeadpodcast.com

This episode features a conversation with host, Rhonda Willers, and guest, Emily Romens.

Please enjoy this episode with Emily Romens.

To learn more about Emily’s work and practice, follow her on Instagram: @emlyrmns

Studio Mix #11 :|: Emily Romens
Sexy Villain by Remi Wolf
The Chain by Fleetwood Mac
Happier Than Ever by Billie Eilish
Paralysed by The Staves
Summer Girl by HAIM

Podcasts:
Armchair expert
Lore
This American life
Mike Bribiglia’s Working It Out

Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4BggKksXt1YtOrRBUO9NUV

Episode page: https://theartistinmeisdeadpodcast.com

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Episode 10: Hannah Kane :|: put yourself next to your creativity

This episode features a conversation with host, Rhonda Willers, and guest, Hannah Kane.

Hannah moves through the world as an artist and wanderer. In our conversation, you’ll hear how she prioritizes wonder in her life. And then we meander through Hannah’s seeking nature and the teachers that have mentored her along the way, including the ocean. Later we think about the ways in which our creativity is impacted by our romanticized beliefs about the creative paths of others.

The title of this episode is inspired by Hannah’s realization that the ocean is never going to get closer to her, so she needs to put herself next to the...*bleep’n*...ocean, just like we need to put ourselves next to our creativity if we want to experience it.

We started the recording after catching up and laughing for about 30 minutes, so you’ll hear us come into the conversation from that place of connection and joy.

Please enjoy this episode with Hannah Kane

To learn more about Hannah’s work and practice, follow her on Instagram: @_h_kane_

Studio Mix #10 :|: Hannah Kane
Boa Sorte Vanessa De Mata and Ben Harper
Ndokulandela by Bongeziwe Mabandla
Falling Water by Maggie Rogers
Shake it out by Florence and the Machine
All I wanna do by Sheryl Crow

Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/10eBrgqYCbk3phJOrNS6ah

Hannah Kane Brief Biography:

I move through the world as an artist and a wanderer. I have been enjoying my last few years learning through travel and connection with others. I am constantly seeking new languages to connect with and some of my favorite modes are: conversation, storytelling, clay, dance, yoga, food and my newest favorite surfing. Spiritual work is the most important and interesting to me.

Episode page: https://theartistinmeisdeadpodcast.com

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Episode 12: Zahra Hooshyar :|: be in conversation with yourself

This episode features a conversation with host, Rhonda Willers, and guest, Zahra Hooshyar

Zahra is an interdisciplinary artist based in Northern California, who describes herself as constantly stuck in diasporic liminal spaces.

Zahra and I met at Anderson Ranch Arts Center where she was working as a ceramics intern. She was my workshop assistant for a week-long terra sigillata workshop, which we can now fondly refer to as t-siggy thanks to Zahra. She’s one of those people who feels like magic when you meet her. She engages with a desire to be submerged fully in the wholeness of life.

Zahra is a first generation Iranian-American, who was born and raised in West Virginia to a cute and short pair of Iranian immigrants. We recorded this episode on the day her BFA thesis show opened. She is graduating from the University of California-Davis with a degree in Studio Art and a minor in Persian Studies, and as you’ll hear from our conversation, Zahra is a human containing multitudes of experiences and knowledge.

Please enjoy this episode with Zahra

To learn more about Zahra’s work follow her on Instagram @zazahoosh and check out her website http://www.zhooshyarstudios.com

Studio Mix #12 :|: Zahra Hooshyar
Be Careful by Greentea Peng
Prelude by Ali Azimi
Lamp Lady by Sevdaliza
It Never Rains Here Morteza by Kiosk
No Bus by lophiile

Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/42rb0A0IahbU54upMbEcxW

Zahra Hooshyar Biography:
Zahra Hooshyar is an interdisciplinary artist with an emphasis on ceramics. Born and raised in West Virginia to a cute and short pair of Iranian immigrants. She is a first generation Iranian-American that is constantly stuck in diasporic liminal spaces. Hooshyar will be graduating from the University of California-Davis with a degree in Studio Art and a minor in Persian Studies.

Episode page: https://theartistinmeisdeadpodcast.com