Episode 19: How would YOU define it?
from The Accidental Muralist Podcast Hosted by Pamela Consear
Rhiannon Leonard is a teaching artist with the Right Brain Initiative and the Young Audiences program of Oregon and SW Washington. In that capacity she uses her drawing art form as a tool for integrating classroom curriculum. As a practicing artist, Rhiannon focuses on botanical illustration and tree details. Look for cards with her botanical illustrations in plant shops around Portland in 2022. Rhiannon’s website: www.RhiannonLeonard.art Pam’s online shop offers craft kits (ironically, once you’ve heard the podcast), but they’re the open-ended kind where she delights you with interesting materials and you get to decide how to use them. Light instructions are sometimes included. 🤓 You can also purchase an entire class, and either bring your friends to her NE Portland studio, or meet online. Check those out (including “Rule Breaking for Beginners”) here. For information about the remarkable Portland-based flamenco organization that brought Pam and Rhiannon together, check out Espacio Flamenco. You can also listen to my interview with one of the founders here.
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What this episode covers
Our society saddles us with baggage around creativity -- namely who is allowed to be an artist, and what exactly can be called "art." In this conversation, Rhiannon unwittingly serves as my therapist as I unpack my own insecurities and examine the long, slow path I needed to trod in order to call myself an Artist. True, she has a few pitfalls of her own. Like, does "copying" nature through detailed botanical illustrations qualify as art, or is it scientific note-taking? Join us for a wild ride full of laughs and contradictions as we ask ourselves and each other: What is Creativity?
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