slow inside Grace D. Chin: How To Do What You Love Without Compromising Who You Are
Dec 10, 2017
43:48
Grace Chin makes art that is both political and pretty, useful and ornamental. She makes beautiful wreaths that surround strong personal and political statements like “smash the patriarchy, hope fiercely, nevertheless she persisted, I believe you," and "take care." Grace graduated with a BFA in printmaking from the University of Kansas in 2012. Before starting her career as a full-time artist, she worked for a while at a toy store until she decided that she wanted to pay her rent doing what she loved. Grace went on to do just that.
In this interview we talk about
- her story from making art to studying art to leaving art to making it again, as a full-time gig
- how to make art when you’re feeling stuck
- the dance between hope and resistance, fighting and joy
- using creativity to imagine a better world and using art to change it, and
- how you never have to compromise who you are to do what you want to do.