Jeanne Oliver

The Art of Gathering Overseas

Listen in, and get inspired to create overseas retreats that allow you a wonderful way to connect with others through creativity and travel experiences. Jeanne embraces many loves, giving her a sweet mash-up of family, art, and travel. Connecting with women and sharing that each of us has been creatively made is one of her passions. Jeanne is also a best selling author, creator of the online art school jeanneoliver.com with over 70,000 members from around the world, creator of the Creatively Made Business curriculum, and podcaster.

Find more about Jeanne here: https://jeanneoliver.com/

Adele Sypenstien

CREATING AN ONLINE ART MEMBERSHIP

Find out what it takes to start and run a membership that rewards you by creating a community where you can connect and share with others. Only three years ago, Adele began teaching abstract art online with a monthly membership called “Art with Adele Academy.” Now, even though she continues to paint on a regular basis, her passion and focus is on teaching other artists to grow in their own work and learn the business side of having an art career.

Find more about Adele here: https://adelesypesteynstudio.com/

Kiala Givehand

The JOY OF HOSTING MULTIPLE TEACHERS

Learn what goes into planning and coordinating a retreat with multiple teachers. Kiala makes it sound like so much fun, you’ll be dreaming up your own retreat! Kiala’s tips and strategies will be valuable to anyone wanting to venture into offering these types of retreats. Kiala is a multi-talented artist, published poet, bookbinder, printmaker, fountain pen collector, and road trip warrior who is passionate about storytelling, human design, astrology, sacred geometry, and other ancient intuitive guidance systems. She lives a life intent on cultivating happiness and, along with her husband Damon, is the co-creator of the Sacred Makers Soul Retreat @ Squam Lake.

Find more about Kiala here: https://www.kialagivehand.com/

Kristin Peterson

TIPs FOR TEACHING IN PERSON CLASSES

Kristin shares great information about how to get started teaching in person and the importance of creating an experience that both inspires and nurtures students. Kristin is always exploring and expanding the creative depths of being an artist. Kristin very much enjoys vintage collage work and mixed media. Her style contains vibrance mixed with a little funk, which is sprinkled with discreet sensibility. Kristin teaches both online and in person courses and inspires others with unique and fun projects.

Find more about Kristin here: https://www.alteredstatesstudio.com/home

Kia Cannons

TOP TIPS FOR TEACHING LIVE ONLINE

Kia’s tips and encouragement for teaching live online will have you feeling inspired to give it a try. As one who has shied away from teaching live online, I needed to hear Kia’s tips and encouragement. Her excitement is contagious and she makes me want to give it a try. Kia is the founder of Untold Happiness, a monthly self-help membership, Kia mentors women in self-discovery work and cultivating a killer-mindset. Kia offers artistic healing via weekly online intuitive painting classes and is the host of UK top 3 self-help podcast, Happy Hacks.

Find more about Kia here: https://www.kiacannons.com/

Colleen Attara

Gathering and Teaching in Your Personal Space

Colleen perfectly explains how teaching in our personal spaces allows us to create a space for creativity, joy, and healing. Sprinkled with lots of laughter, good food, and flexibility that’s a recipe for success. Colleen’s superpower is connecting others to their unique creativity. She leads them back to the kind of joy they felt as a child when they played with paint, paper and thread. She spreads love & light through her card line, original artwork, writings and in teaching others her own creative process both online and in intimate workshops & retreats at her Bucks County, PA studio cottage.

Find more about Colleen here: https://colleenattara.com/

Roben-Marie Smith

TIPS FOR TEACHING ONLINE COURSES

With years of experience in creating online courses, Roben-Marie has developed a system that makes the process efficient and stress-free. In this interview, she shares the tools and methods she uses along with helpful tips that will equip other artists on their journey to share their creative process and ideas with others eager to learn new skills. Maker’s Tech U is now closed.

Find more about Roben-Marie here: https://www.robenmarie.com/

 Traci Bautista

THE ART OF INSPIRATION SKETCHBOOKS

Traci is a mixed media artist, designer, author, educator, and paint maker. In 2001, she left a successful career in the Silicon Valley to pursue her passion for art. She is the creator of #tracibautistaCOLOR, a limited edition line of handcrafted artisan watercolors and mixed media supplies. For the past two decades she has guided tens of thousands of artists in her in-person workshops and online courses to PLAY and paint with freedom. Her artwork has led her on a worldwide tour teaching and speaking about art & creative business. She is the author of three bestselling mixed media books, Collage Unleashed, Doodles Unleashed, and Printmaking Unleashed. Additionally, she designs licensed products including StencilGirl stencils and Aleene’s Collage Pauge. She is also a Golden Artist Educator.

In this interview, Traci gives a peek at how influential sketchbooks can be, not only as a daily practice or a creative outlet, but also as a key piece of the process woven into owning a business, creating product, and marketing your brand. The way that Traci uses various different techniques to take full advantage of her sketchbooks is so informative and enlightening! Roben-Marie and Traci deep dive into so many apps, supplies, and various tips for you in this summit interview that you will be itching to grab your sketchbook!

Find more about Traci here: https://www.treicdesignsdigitals.com/

Caylee Grey

THE ART OF DOCUMENTING

Caylee fills her journals with loads of mediocre art. Imperfect, heart-led, gloriously mediocre art. Caylee's the Fairy Artmother of Get Messy Art, the kindest art journaling community on the internet, and author of the book by the same name.

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.” - Anais Nin

In this interview, Caylee and Roben-Marie discuss the magic of imperfect, laid-back, no expectation of documentation. Caylee’s perspective on getting messy to avoid perfectionism, and embracing all of the therapeutic and healing properties that documenting through art has to offer will certainly leave you feeling enlightened, and she may have unintentionally also left us all googling fountain pens.

Find more about Caylee here: https://cayleegrey.com/

Sara Schroeder

DISCOVERING YOUR OWN STYLE WITH ART JOURNALING

Sara works on paper and canvas in a variety of sizes, and her gestural, bright, abstract pieces often incorporate multiple mediums. She frequently uses art journaling to work out ideas and inspiration and she teaches online classes focused on this practice periodically throughout the year.In 2019, Sara founded the Old Book Revivalist project and community on Instagram, through which she encourages creative people to create new, beautiful stories in old books. In late 2022, Sara also founded INSPIRED, a membership community based on the regular practice of art journaling.

In this interview, Sara brings us on a soulful journey during which she explains the steps she leads her classes on to discover what it means to find your own style, how to unlock what you style is by tapping into internal and external reflection and meditation, and how to play and experiment with different colors and mediums to bring your art to life. Sara beautifully weaves together finding your authentic creative voice with art journaling and the joy she feels in sharing this with others. Her approach to art journaling is something completely unique that will certainly leave you wanting to learn more about Sara and her art processes.

You can find Sara at: www.saraschroederart.com

 Ali Manning

HANDMADE BOOKS: THE ESSENTIAL TOOLS

With many years of experience in creating handmade books, not only has Ali developed an ever-growing fondness for this practice but something that inspires her the most is her opportunity to teach others and share handmade books and book-binding through classes and her membership.

In this interview, Ali shares with host Roben-Marie Smith that creating handmade books does not have to be difficult, expensive, or for pros! Anyone can do it, and after hearing the love and joy Ali gets from creating her handmade books you are going to want to try it out for yourself!

You can find Ali at: www.vintagepagedesigns.com

Pam Carriker

GETTING THE MOST FROM YOUR ART JOURNAL

Pam is an Artist, Instructor, Columnist and Author of books Art at the Speed of Life and Creating Art at the Speed of Life, and Mixed Media Portraits with Pam Carriker. Her work can be found in over 50 publications and along with creating instructional videos for Strathmore Artist Papers, she has designed signature art product lines for StencilGirl Products, Stampington & Co and Derivan Matisse.

In this interview, Pam’s perspective on using an art journal as a tool for tracking your techniques, exploring your color palette, and experimenting with mediums is an amazing way to create a recipe for all of the larger art projects that you are cooking up. Roben-Marie and Pam talk about their favorite supplies and the feel-good tingle that supplies can bring you when you’ve fallen in love with a new tool or the certainty you can feel when something may NOT be working. This discussion is an amazing way to learn new ways to put your art journal to use!

You can find Pam at: https://pamcarriker.com/

 Helen Colebrook

JOURNALING WITH PURPOSE

Helen did not think of herself as creative until she found her ‘thing’ – creative journaling - and began her blog Journal with Purpose.

The freedom and lack of rules made journal-keeping the perfect hobby for her and creativity has now become a very important part of her everyday life, leading to a whole new career path.

In this interview, Helen shares how her passion for journaling was ignited, and what an integral part of her life it has become as she fills her journals daily with her emotions, gratitude, and art. For Helen, not only does her journaling fill her soul, but she is delighted to also share her passion with others as she creates courses and freebies for everyone to kick-start their journal journeys!

You can find Helen at: https://www.journalwithpurpose.co.uk/

 Shay Kent

JOURNALS ARE LIKE LITTLE FRIENDS

Shay is a mixed media artist and teacher living in Tampa, Florida. She loves to teach art workshops that help people use creativity for self-exploration and find freedom while making art. Her students say it feels like a spa for their creative souls. She invites you to come to class with her, where we can let go, explore, and have some fun with art.

In this interview, Shay opens up about how her approach to art journaling is something different from many others, in that she treats her journals like they are friends welcoming her to create with open arms, no expectations. Shay is an artistic voice that will warmly embrace you and her discussion with Roben-Marie will leave you excited and inspired to create, not from a pressure point of yearning to find your “artistic voice” but because she believes that everyone has creativity within them that is inherently their own, like a fingerprint.

You can find Shay at: www.shaymichelle.com