Thyme in the Studio: Art & Wellness - 53: Hold Space for All That Is and Adore Black Women with Gigi Bisong

53: Hold Space for All That Is and Adore Black Women with Gigi Bisong

08/18/20 • 98 min

Gigi Bisong is a speaker, author, publisher, and life coach. her passion is helping you connect to your truth center. She does this by helping you learn to be ok with your most insecure parts, knowing those parts are far from your entire truth. She holds space for you so you can shine and your divine self can come through fully. Gigi develops meaningful, innovative programs to align others to their unique genius so they can bring their gifts into this world and truly embody their calling.Don't miss out on the FREE wisdom and guidance of black women to learn more about deeply caring for our emotions, collectively healing, and HONORING our Blackness in a world that still has injustice and racism.

Her summit brings together the wisdom of over 20 educators. In the meantime I think you will get so much out of hearing how Gigi came to understand her truth and felt the power of others stories moving through her. She is such a powerful speaker and connector of other people and I also love what she has to say about couples therapy. Does it work and why or why not?

Ooh and in the spirit of connecting more with others I am hosting a giveaway. Never done this before but offering a piece of pottery to a special someone! It’s a cup I made in 2020 and perfect for a little sip of water, tea coffee or wine.

Super simple to enter Just

1.go follow@ thymeinthestudiopodcast on instagram

2. Tag 3 friends on a post

3. Go to thymeinthestudio.com and sign up for my newsletter

And for a bonus entry share your favorite episode to your instagram stories and be sure to tag me so I can shout you out!

So excited to share with you the conversation I had with Gigi Bisong..

Links:

https://www.gigibisong.com/

https://www.instagram.com/gigi_bisong/

https://adoredontignoreblackwomen.com/

https://video.tpt.org/video/gigi-bisong-zead6l/

Thymelights:

https://instagram.com/sunkissedhealth?igshid=10mp0f79eeyo

https://instagram.com/bwspeak?igshid=g0fv5y4qiloc

https://instagram.com/fazayahrose?igshid=aadgmxz4sieo

https://www.instagram.com/crafting_the_future/

Thyme in the Studio links:

https://www.patreon.com/thymeinthestudio

https://www.instagram.com/thymeinthestudiopodcast/

https://www.instagram.com/aida.zea.arts/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/403582056803336/

www.thymeinthestudio.com

https://www.aidazea.com

Contact me: [email protected]

Music by komiku

Super simple to enter Just

1.go follow@ thymeinthestudiopodcast on instagram

2. Tag 3 friends on a post

3. Go to thymeinthestudio.com and sign up for my newsletter

And for a bonus entry share your favorite episode to your instagram stories and be sure to tag me so I can shout you out!

So excited to share with you the conversation I had with Gigi Bisong..

Links:

https://www.gigibisong.com/

https://www.instagram.com/gigi_bisong/

https://adoredontignoreblackwomen.com/

https://video.tpt.org/video/gigi-bisong-zead6l/

Thymelights:

https://instagram.com/sunkissedhealth?igshid=10mp0f79eeyo

https://instagram.com/bwspeak?igshid=g0fv5y4qiloc

https://instagram.com/fazayahrose?igshid=aadgmxz4sieo

https://www.instagram.com/crafting_the_future/

Thyme in the Studio links:

https://www.patreon.com/thymeinthestudio

https://www.instagram.com/thymeinthestudiopodcast/

https://www.instagram.com/aida.zea.arts/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/403582056803336/

www.thymeinthestudio.com

https://www.aidazea.com

Contact me: [email protected]

Music by komiku

Previous Episode

52: Chatting with EarthSpeak about Speaking with the Earth

So thrilled to be sharing the chat I had with EarthSpeak founders today. Natalie Ross she is the founder, podcast host and awareness activator and Shawna Cason, Co-founder, brand alchemist and medicine woman. This the first ever podcast interview the 2 of them have ever done together and the first podcast I’ve ever hosted with 2 guests at once. Was so fun to hear their stories and discuss building a supportive collective without hierarchy. They discuss the ease of working together and how trusting people to thrive in their zone of genius allows for smoother collaborations. I also loved our chat about podcasting and how our passions and business take on their own energy and how to tuning into what your projects want can have unexpected positive outcomes. This is a quick dive into how everything is alive and everything is about relationships.

Ooh and in the spirit of connecting more with others I am hosting a giveaway. Never done this before but offering a piece of pottery to a special someone! It’s a cup I made this wild year of 2020 and perfect for a little sip of water, wine, tea or to hold some flowers on your altar.

Just

1.go follow@ thymeinthestudio on instagram

2. Tag 3 friends on a post

3. Go to thymeinthestudio.com and sign up for my newsletter

And for a bonus entry share your favorite episode to your instagram stories and be sure to tag me so I can shout you out!

I am offering a secret invocation to patreon supporters as a gift. You can go to patreon.com/thymeinthestudio to become a sustaining member hear a secret invocation.

Links:

https://www.earthspeak.love/about-home

https://www.instagram.com/earthspeak/

https://www.instagram.com/natalie.alexandra.ross/

https://www.instagram.com/scentient.botanicals/

https://www.instagram.com/seeress.studio/

https://www.instagram.com/talk_tothetrees/

https://www.instagram.com/crafting_the_future/

Thyme in the Studio links:

https://www.patreon.com/thymeinthestudio

https://www.instagram.com/thymeinthestudiopodcast/

https://www.instagram.com/aida.zea.arts/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/403582056803336/

www.thymeinthestudio.com

https://www.aidazea.com

Contact me: [email protected]

Music by komiku

Let’s be friends and connect on instagram! @thymeinthestudiopodcast

Please be sure to connect with https://www.instagram.com/earthspeak/

@earthspeak

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Next Episode

54: How to burn a painting and write an artist statement in Iceland with Michele Kishita

Michele Kishita is a Philadelphia-based artist who uses colors found in

nature that are not typically associated with “natural” colors and focuses

on landscape as her primary subject. Her paintings are strongly influenced

by the graphic stylizations and compressed spaces of Japanese ukiyo-e.

Kishita’s paintings are in a number of private/corporate collections,

including Toyota, Capital One, and Kaiser Permanente, and her work is

featured in Create Magazine, on the Poetry Foundation blog, and Studio

Break podcast, as well as in several literary journals. She exhibited at the

Sharjah Art Museum in the United Arab Emirates and the Museum of

Non-Conformist Art in St. Petersburg, Russia. Kishita received both her

BFA and MFA in painting from the University of the Arts.

Was so great chatting with Michele Kishita, artist, writer and teacher about living in Japan and how that time has influenced her art, how her view of artist residencies has shifted and some of her resident highlights. She also discusses her experiences working with gallerist Bridgette Mayer and synchronicities that occurred that made it feel like the right choice to work with an art coach. She teaches writing and gives some great tips for cleaning up your artist statement and she has some great book recommendations and unconventional tips for gowing tomatoes.

About her recent body of work: Absent Futures

Absent Futures is a new body of work on shou sugi-ban (burnt timber)

panels that addresses the current state of deforestation and the

opposing concepts of resilience and devastation. While our forests and

natural spaces continue receding due to industry and suburban sprawl,

the more catastrophic losses are occurring in the rainforest where

swaths the size of forty football fields disappear each minute.

Suggestions of landscape painted onto the burnt surfaces depict a

memory of what was while at the same time highlighting what remains

and can still be salvaged. It is a reminder of the persistence and

vitality of nature and our role in choosing its success or failure, which

ultimately determines our own.

Her work in general:

“My current work investigates the dialogue between the wooden surfaces on which I paint and the trees from which those panels were built. I highlight the interconnectedness of humans and nature, while addressing life’s impermanence and transience. Industry's straight lines and angles try to control nature, transforming a tree’s rounded mass into flat rectangular sheets; yet, the wood grain’s undulations, marking the tree’s growth and annual water intake, emerge despite its new, boxy confines. A tree's experiences are indelibly written on its interior and at the same time are a historical account of the landscape itself. In my paintings, I strive to conjure the landscape that no longer exists but is inherently contained in each panel while expressing the visual contrast and harmony where human-made structures and nature intersect.” from www.michelekishita.com

I also want to speak the name of Jacob Blake and send prayers to his family and loved ones. Yes we still need to disarm the police and restructure the law enforcement and justice system in this country. Oh and the medical and education systems could use an overhaul too. We have work to do. Please register to vote and please do whatever is in your power to vote.

https://www.vote.org/

So excited to share with you the conversation I had with Michele Kishita

Links:

www.michelekishita.com

https://www.instagram.com/michelekishita/

Thymelights:

NES Artist Residency, Skagaströnd, Iceland

https://neslist.is/

SPAR, St. Petersburg, Russia

https://artresidency.ru/

virtual residency at SPAR right now

https://virtualresidency.p-10.ru/author/michele-kishita/