Creative Spaces
“I am complete mistress of my domain. I walk into my studio sometimes just to take a deep breath, and I feel anchored to my earth.”-Anna Corba
mixed media/collage artist
I’ve been slowly making my way through Where Women Create: Inspiring Work Spaces of Extraordinary Women, a beautiful and helpful book about women artists.
The photographs are average, but interesting. I always like peeking into someone’s creative space. But it’s the words of the artists that make it such a helpful and encouraging read. Some of the women are still doing all their work in the kitchen and putting away their art each night in order to make dinner! And many of them, who now have lovely studios, reflect back to the times where they found their creative voice while working out of a tiny plastic box that they moved from place to place. One even keeps her art supplies in the dishwasher of her and her husbands tiny city apartment!
In honor of places women create — and in deep thanksgiving for the privlidge and a dedicated work space — I’ve added some pictures of my studio on my flicker page. If you watch it as a slide show, it looks nicer but you miss the handy quotes.
If you click on each one you’ll find some quotes from the artists in the book as well as some quips from me about why I love the room I call my own.
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