YouTube Interview: Teach Me Something New with Clara Benali
Many thanks to Clara Benali of Your Intimate Freedom for inviting me as a guest on your YouTube channel! So much fun chatting all things creativity and inner passion with you.
More From the Archive
A Note on the Blog Archive and Content
A Note on the Blog Archive and Content A note on the blog archive and content: Many of the blog posts you see below were written in 2018, at a time when I was just beginning to shift into dedicated time for "my own" creative impulses. After many years as a shadow...
Guest on the Art Friend Show, Hosted by Annamieka Hopps
Watch: Guest Interview on the Art Friend Show with Host Annamieka Hopps I had so much fun being a guest on the Art Friend Show with host, artist, mentor, and community builder Annamieka Hopps. Annamieka is hosting live Instagram interviews and solocasts for 100 Days,...
Listen: Creative Unearthing Podcast, Episode 34
Listen: "Holding Space" on the Creative Unearthing podcost with Host Emma Freeman A couple months ago, I had the true pleasure of being a guest on the Creative Unearthing podcast with host, artist, writer, and my dear friend Emma Freeman. We talked about holding...
The Stories They Carry: Original Tree Art at Oregon Coast Gallery (March 2022)
Introducing "The Stories They Carry" Tree Artwork on Display at Hoffman Center for the Arts See and hear about eight of the sixteen pieces from "The Stories They Carry," original art by emerging artist Alana Garrigues (yours truly!) on display and available for sale...
Out of the Shadow: Artist and Writer
The artwork above was included in Radical Revolution, an art show hosted by Siren Nation PDX in downtown Portland, Oregon in 2019. It was inspired by the song "Tangled Up in Blue" by Bob Dylan. Artwork sold and in a private collection. For a long time, I was a shadow...
Trees I’ve Known and Loved
Trees I've Known and Loved (originally posted as "Tree Hugs" on April 23, 2018 on Of Love and Light website... more than a year an a half before beginning my "Mother Tree Holds the Stories" fine art series) You wanna make this girl happy? Skip the jewelry, the fancy...
Quotes to Celebrate the Creative Process
Quotes to Celebrate the Creative Process (adapted from original blog post titled "Quotes to Celebrate Love, Light, and the Creative Process on April 19. 2018 on Of Love and Light website) I always loved reading as a child. Sadly, once I got to high school, I hated 90%...
Naked Soul: Bare Creativity
Naked Soul: Bare Creativity (originally published April 14, 2018 on Of Love and Light website) What does it mean to bare *everything* in the name of creativity? What can be discovered by tapping so deeply into the core of your being that there are no words, nor...
I Am… Ready. Valued. Here.
I Am... Ready. Valued. Here. (originally posted under the title "I Am... {Own Your Story} on April 9, 2018 on Of Love and Light website) Who are you? In my opinion, that right there ^ is one of the toughest questions out there. Who am I? I remember my first...
Affirmations
(originally posted April 2018 on Of Love and Light website) If you’re anything like me, your mind is constantly running with background chatter. There is the chatter you’re aware of—the thoughts and daydreams and self-criticisms and if-onlys and what-ifs and to-dos...