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Trinity Brown creates and sells jewelry – often a lot of it – at the Mint tent at the Palmer Park Art Fair. At a recent Mint workshop, she shared how she sometimes has procrastinated on finishing work, adding the hooks to earrings the night before the fair and created many pieces in the final days beforehand. This year, though, …
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Judy Bowman believes in setting one big goal – and using that to guide your choices.
Hers is to create a good body of work, professional presented. “Leave a legacy for my children” as an artist and a person who pursued her passions, she said.
She is pursuing hers intently now after retiring from a 30 year career as a teacher and high school principal. Bowman creates beautiful collage pieces – usually people in happy or everyday moments – and then limited edition giclee prints that sell for hundreds of dollars. Though she just restarted her art career a few years ago, she’s already represented by Jo’s Gallery in Detroit and appeared in many exhibits, the Essence Festival, Bombay Saphire and at the Belle Isle Art Fair. She’s also a regular and amazing supporter of Mint Artists Guild.
“I hear of an opportunity, take a deep breath and say ‘let’s try it.’ It’s stepping out there. Just go for it,” Bowman says.
She believes that artists must “be watchful for opportunities. Be ready to take advantage of them.”
And allow people to help you. Many people have helped her with her career, in part because of her open and friendly approach
When I showed up at an Artist2Artist talk, Judy and I hit it off. We talked about art and artists selling their work. And I told her and the other artists there that night about the debut of the Belle Isle Art Fair. Judy Bowman followed, showed up – and sold a lot of work.
“Be very receptive,” of people and opportunities, she said, and jump on those that are stepping stones toward your big goal.
(Photo: © Charlene Uresy, used with permission)
Article copyright © 2016 Vickie Elmer, updated 2020
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