Sylvia is a filmmaker who also enjoys the tactile nature of arts and crafts. For her, art is a craft that takes rigor; and one that is also very calming, inspiring and an expression of faith. Through 2-minute, 2-hour, 2-day, and 2-week projects that anyone at any skill level can try, her posts will explore all the lovely things we can discover when we take the time to create.
Yuki Uwasawa is a healer who uses as her tools massage therapy and sound body healing. Yuki first experienced the healing properties of singing bowls in 2016. She explores the world via video haikus.
Suzanne DeCuir is an artist who over the past 20 years has been a painter, but recently she began working with textiles. She and her husband are raising three daughters, adopted from China, who have inspired her most recent work “Life Jackets.” She finds time to make art in the left-over margins of the day and will be sharing bi-monthly stories about how she grapples with what she wants to say and how to show it.
Pamela Beere Briggs is a writer and filmmaker who never forgot her joyful time in a Japanese kindergarten. It led her to believe that every child should have the opportunity to love learning. She will be sending missives from her home and backyard. Reuse and Repair are two of her favorite explorations.
Natalie McDonald—the “happy guinea pig” who was homeschooled for 7th and 8th grade—graduated with honors from Pomona College in 2019. She continues to love learning as much as she did when studying in her backyard schoolhouse ten years ago.
Molly Antell is an illustrator and designer whose work has appeared anywhere from olive oil bottles to board games to posters. In her spare time, she likes drawing her friends’ cats as Elizabethan characters. Find more of her work at mollyantell.art.
