Advice for Aspiring Creatives

Written By Kim Joy

My advice to aspiring creative would be to follow their heart. Your heart knows what is best for you. When you listen to others you are hearing their dreams and giving up your heart’s dream.

If it is not financially feasible, do what you need to do to survive buy make some time to do your heart’s love- creativity. Your art will be there waiting for you.

I would say meet as many artists/craftspeople that you can in your medium or other mediums. This will be your network of creatives to live, learn and grow with. A bonus to that will be that you can learn from them- how they did it, how to start and run a creative business, where good suppliers are, etc.

Remember to keep art in your heART!

Kim Joy

Kim Steinmuller Joy has been a stained glass artist and teacher since 1982. Most of her pieces are in the traditional style and starting to experiment to incorporate materials not usually found in the medium. She believes that through her pieces she can grow and learn more about the world around her and where she came from. She hopes that her work will inspire and encourage others in their artistic endeavors. She loves working with commissions that allows her to create one of kind pieces for the commissioner.

She belongs to Stained Glass Association of America and National Capital Art Glass Guild. Her work can be found at the Community Council of the Arts in Kinston NC, Arts Council of Wayne County Goldsboro, NC, and Wilson Arts in Wilson, NC. She teaches Nash Community College Nashville, NC, Wilson Community College Wilson NC. Her works are in private collections worldwide.

Kim Steinmuller Joy was raised in upstate New York and now lives and works in Wilson, NC.

https://www.kimsjoy.com
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