I couldn’t draw a tree even if you paid me a million dollars. Many people get stuck here, thinking artists must draw or paint things others can recognize. But being an artist means being creative, breaking limits, and letting your mind express itself freely.

At a young age my favorite class was art. I’ve always been creative and really I have always wanted to be an artist. While I had small businesses my entire life selling earrings, t-shirts and other things to friends I was always told you couldn’t make a career out of art and I needed to get a “real job”. Add that to the fact I went to school to major in art only to realize there was no art studio major at Vanderbilt University. I had seen studio art classes on the tour so I just figured they had to have the major. Big mistake. Life took me in a different direction and my creativity stood out in other ways. I have owned a stationery design business and a jewelry business as well as some side hustles and artistic ventures. But in