Musings, Thoughts, and Creativity Matters

Week 1: The 365 Series

by Jill Austen on 01/29/15

I have just completed the 7th day of my 365 day project - here is what I've learned so far:

1) Working on a painting is not the same as finishing a painting every day in the same way that practicing an instrument is not the same as giving a performance every day

2) I work more efficiently when I'm organized

3) Organization takes time and has involved sorting through old sketches and unfinished ideas

4) Some of those unfinished ideas are worth revisiting

5) Art makes me happy

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Jill Austen Bio

performances and exhibits throughout the US, Mexico and the Caribbean. Teaching opportunities have taken her to Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago and the College of the Bahamas in Nassau. Her inner vagabond is happy to call New York City home. Jill's poetry was first published in Leaf Garden Press in 2009, and more recently in About Place Journal, Mom Egg Review and Blue Door Quarterly. A Comfort of Hummingbirds, her first poetry chapbook awaits publication.

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Jill Austen lives a multidisciplinary life, embracing creativity through music, art and poetry. To this end she has created Austen Academy, offering a series of integrated arts workshops which explore individuality and the creative process. Jill holds degrees in music from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia and the University of Minnesota, where she also studied visual arts and art history. She is a juried associate member of the Pastel Society of America. As both flutist and visual artist she has enjoyed residencies,