TB Lakewood 08.26.2019

 

Kathy Beekman

I got serious about my art when, in the early 2000s, I asked a colleague of mine, who happened to be an artist, “Don’t you just want to make a living selling your art?” Her reply lit the seat of my pants, “Yeah, but that’s not realistic.” It was this singular moment that was and is now the driving force behind my wanting to make a success of my creative life. Read more>>

Julia Morgan

I come from a family of artists and have always had a strong passion for creating. I quickly started taking pictures not only of my own little one but of many of my friends and their growing families. One of my dear friends at the time convinced me that I should really start charging people for these “amazing” pictures I was taking. Read more>>

Dante Perozzi

I come from a family of artists so I’ve always been making things. As soon as I honed my motor skills, I was making stuff—in particular, I was into crafting little villages out of paper. My artistic family, my mother specifically, instilled a sense of artistic confidence and comfortability in me. Between my two hands, I have seven fingers, which forced me to creatively figure out my own ways of doing things. Read more>>

Lindsay Thurman

I have always had a passion for fitness and health. Becoming active as a child in multiple sports and activities, I loved moving my body. As I went through college, I was your typical everyday person hitting the big commercial gyms and trying to figure out what to do for a workout. Sometimes, that meant getting on the elliptical for 30 mins and others I tried to piece together some kind of lightweight training. Read more>>