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Renée Phillips an author, career advisor and arts writer, helping artists from around the world achieve their fullest potential by providing career advice, coaching, writing services and promotion. Known internationally as “The Artrepreneur Coach” she identifies her clients’ greatest assets and emphasizes their strengths. She is also the Founder, Director and Curator of Manhattan Arts International www.ManhattanArts.com, which she launched to give under-recognized artists exposure. Her mission there is to promote and reward artistic excellence. The artists she promotes international artists working in all styles and mediums.
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Renee Phillips, Director, Manhattan Arts International, http://www.manhattanarts.com
The Artrepreneur Coach, http://www.renee-phillips.com
Founder, The Healing Power of ART, http://www.healing-power-of-art.org
Twitter: www.twitter.com/reneephillipsny
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ReneePhillipsArtCoach
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/reneephillipsartcoach
We believe in the power of creating and writing down our dreams and goals and then taking frequent, defined steps toward them. In fact, according to Bradley Foster and many other coaches, belief is the first step to success.
1. Belief
2. Visualize
3. Write It Down
4. Purpose/Know Why
5. Commit/Take it Seriously
6. Stay Focused
7. Plan of Action/Be Clear
8. Do it NOW
9. Accountability
10. Review Goals Daily & Take Action
1. Belief
2. Visualize
3. Write It Down
4. Purpose/Know Why
5. Commit/Take it Seriously
6. Stay Focused
7. Plan of Action/Be Clear
8. Do it NOW
9. Accountability
10. Review Goals Daily & Take Action
Lessons Learned: Choice and Direction
Choices might be very clear or very subtle, even sub-conscious. If you feel dissatisfied, unhappy, look at your recent actions and the choices you made that lead to those actions. Were they just the easier way? Did they feel safer? Were you uncertain about doing the alternative? Did you feel some excitement about the alternative choice, but were afraid because you couldn't predict/control/see the outcome?
Consider your options and then consider more closely the one that makes your heart beat faster, brings a smile to your face, however tentative, ... What if you gave yourself permission to explore something new, something more healthy for you, something that made you feel lighter, happier, more fulfilled? What is stopping you? Is it truly dangerous or do you just don't believe enough in yourself, in your skills and in past experience that can be brought to new ventures? Can you ignore the unhelpful habits and old messages that keep taking your attention back to the parts of your life you do not want? Can you let the unexpected happen without trying to wrestle it into your preconceived expectations? Could you risk just a bit, stare down just a bit of fear in order to explore the alternative?
What do you really want? Ask this without listening to those doubts you may have let limit you in the past. What if you could really do this? What would it look like? Don't be afraid to make a list of everything that comes up when you ask this. Then focus on the one that makes you feel most excited; let this idea grow inside you. Your true desires will lift your spirit, will be beneficial to you. Take a step in that direction.
-Sherri
Choices might be very clear or very subtle, even sub-conscious. If you feel dissatisfied, unhappy, look at your recent actions and the choices you made that lead to those actions. Were they just the easier way? Did they feel safer? Were you uncertain about doing the alternative? Did you feel some excitement about the alternative choice, but were afraid because you couldn't predict/control/see the outcome?
Consider your options and then consider more closely the one that makes your heart beat faster, brings a smile to your face, however tentative, ... What if you gave yourself permission to explore something new, something more healthy for you, something that made you feel lighter, happier, more fulfilled? What is stopping you? Is it truly dangerous or do you just don't believe enough in yourself, in your skills and in past experience that can be brought to new ventures? Can you ignore the unhelpful habits and old messages that keep taking your attention back to the parts of your life you do not want? Can you let the unexpected happen without trying to wrestle it into your preconceived expectations? Could you risk just a bit, stare down just a bit of fear in order to explore the alternative?
What do you really want? Ask this without listening to those doubts you may have let limit you in the past. What if you could really do this? What would it look like? Don't be afraid to make a list of everything that comes up when you ask this. Then focus on the one that makes you feel most excited; let this idea grow inside you. Your true desires will lift your spirit, will be beneficial to you. Take a step in that direction.
-Sherri
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Brene' Brown encourages the "sweaty creatives", to ignore their nervousness, to be brave enough to put their vulnerability on display, to share their creativity, to show up and be seen, knowing all the while, that by doing so, they WILL get their ass kicked, because that is the consequence of courage.
And, to tell those who are not in the arena, those who are not also being vulnerable, being courageous and getting their asses kicked (see Theodore Roosevelt's quote below), that you are not interested in their feedback. Constructive information? Bring it on.... Creatives do enjoy learning and expanding their skill and perspectives. "It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly" - Theodore Roosevelt |
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Eight Contemporary Icons Explain the Relationship Between Artistry and Technology. By Katherine Brooks Huffington Post 3/20/2015
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Transformative power of activist art from an openly gay, black man in the South
| Marcus Ellsworth | TEDxUTChattanooga Action #1 - get out and tell your truth, unapologetically and with the intent to connect to people Aciton #2 - engage with art, converse about it, use it to challenge your own views |
Water knowledge served up beautifully for #WorldWaterDay by the Nature Conservancy.
The Shorty Awards for Best Social Media Activism
From the website: "These people stand up for what they believe in, cause a movement, or live up to Gandhi's words "be the change you want to see in the world". If they use Twitter, Facebook, blogs, YouTube videos or other social means to help generate awareness of their cause, start a revolution, or inspire others to do the same, they might just win this Shorty. Nominate who you think is the pinnacle of #Activism!
From the website: "These people stand up for what they believe in, cause a movement, or live up to Gandhi's words "be the change you want to see in the world". If they use Twitter, Facebook, blogs, YouTube videos or other social means to help generate awareness of their cause, start a revolution, or inspire others to do the same, they might just win this Shorty. Nominate who you think is the pinnacle of #Activism!
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Feminist 'All About That Bass' Parody 'Bitch In Business' Might Be Better Than The Original
By Alanna Vagianos, Huffington Post, 12/11/2014 "While Meghan Trainor's hit "All About That Bass" celebrates body confidence, a new feminist parody takes more of an intellectual approach to equality. . . ." |
RAW: The Norton Museum’s Recognition of Art by Women Program
By Natalie Hegert, MutualArt.com, 02/4.15
"according to the Guerrilla Girls, statistics show that as far as museum solo shows and collections are concerned, the state of affairs is not much improved from the 1980s when they began their campaign...Some museums, however, are actively working against this status quo. In 2011 the Norton Museum of Art announced the formation of a six-year initiative to promote the work of women artists."
By Natalie Hegert, MutualArt.com, 02/4.15
"according to the Guerrilla Girls, statistics show that as far as museum solo shows and collections are concerned, the state of affairs is not much improved from the 1980s when they began their campaign...Some museums, however, are actively working against this status quo. In 2011 the Norton Museum of Art announced the formation of a six-year initiative to promote the work of women artists."
Art+Feminism Stages Second Wikipedia Siege at MoMA
By Noelle Bodick, Blouin ArtInfo
To redress the imbalance, the group will host its second annual “Wikipedia-edit-a-thon” at the Museum of Modern Art. By training more conscientious editors, they hope to shake up the power structures in the art world, creating entries about feminist subjects that have been largely overlooked.
By Noelle Bodick, Blouin ArtInfo
To redress the imbalance, the group will host its second annual “Wikipedia-edit-a-thon” at the Museum of Modern Art. By training more conscientious editors, they hope to shake up the power structures in the art world, creating entries about feminist subjects that have been largely overlooked.