103 | Sparking Curiosity Through Visual Narrative, Unique Forms of Inspiration, and the Power of Storytelling with Deborah Stein

Margo chats with Deborah Stein who lives, paints and writes in NYC and the Embudo Valley in New Mexico. Deborah is a fine artist who teaches visual narrative workshops, runs (usually) twice a year artist residencies and is one of the proud hosts of folktale week along with illustrator-friends she admires. She ran her first creative live retreat at the lovely Highlights Foundation in rural PA this past Spring and is working on book projects (and possibilities for projects) and getting ready to show her work in August at The LDBA Studio in Santa Fe who she also designed a watercolor palette for called “Imagined Landscapes”.

 

Margo and Deborah discuss: 

  • Following your own skills and ideas

  • The power of art, music, and storytelling

  • Having your work copied and how to come out on top

  • How she encourages people to be themselves and follow their passions

  • Ways to spark your own curiosity

  • Experiencing sorrow and grief and how it in a way inspires her

  • StoryCamp Disco: what it is and how she came up with it

 

When she’s not drawing, painting, writing or leading workshops and live art classes for kids and adults on and off-line, she can be found writing down her thoughts, looking closely at the complexities of nature and/or imagining the curious interplay between talking animals and observant children, looking at art, hiding in bookshops, poking in gardens and in apricot trees, walking down to rivers, hiking up hills and through museums, and watching not-scary movies and well-made documentaries, and being with folks and animals she loves. She is working on writing and making art and books that express new ways of seeing the world and our roles in it and loves projects that challenge her imagination and skills!

 

Connect with Deborah:

www.deborahjstein.com

www.Instagram.com/Deborah.j.Stein/

www.instagram.com/storycamp_disco

Storycamp Disco Fall 2022

Art + Workshop Shop

3 people inspiring Deborah:

Ocean Vuong

Victoria Chang

Edward Carey

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