Recently, I told the members of my art club that a polymer-clay company had sent me a generous collection of materials to experiment with and eventually write about. They were surprised—not only by how much I had received, but by the fact that I had reached out in...
Who gets to call themselves an artist? Explore how skill, credentials, professional status, disability, access, and gatekeeping shape artistic identity.
Learn how parentification and family trauma can cause self-neglect, burden shame, autistic burnout, and fear of asking for help—and how healing begins.
Explore Teaching for Artistic Behavior (TAB), student choice, creative problem-solving, mistakes as learning, and community in the art classroom.
Not knowing what comes next can be part of creativity. Explore how uncertainty, experimentation, improvisation, and discovery shape the creative process.
What does chronic autistic burnout really feel like? A lived-experience reflection on invisible disability, exhaustion, capacity, trauma, and being believed.
