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Art Juice: A podcast for artists, creatives and art lovers

Is Instagram twisting the way you show up for yourself - with Denise Gasser [204]

Art Juice: A podcast for artists, creatives and art lovers

Louise Fletcher/Alice Sheridan

Visual Arts, Arts

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Alice first discovered Denise Gasser as she was sharing the challenges of making art as a mother with young children with her "Art After..." project. There was a refreshing honesty, which also showed up in this reel Denise filmed in her car which meant we finally connected to record this conversation about two ways social media could be impacting the way art is made.... what we see others do as markers of success, and our own need for validation which can lead us away from making our truest work.

But is Social Media the culprit? Or; comparison, insecurity, envy, lack of self worth—these are the culprits. Social media will challenge our resolve in these areas, but ultimately it’s up to us to manage our own experience and create healthy patterns that allow social media to be a tool for our benefit rather than a weapon of self destruction.

While this tool puts more power in the hands of artists to promote ourselves and thrive as artists without relying on the gatekeepers of the fine art world. Are you wielding this power? Or are you crumbling?

Let this conversation re-balance you (and yes there are issues with that word!) so you don’t lose yourself.

Watch the Reel that prompted this conversation: https://www.instagram.com/reel/Co8oHYirqUi/?hl=en


Mentioned:

Denise offers mentor sessions for artists through her website: www.denisegasser.com

Find her on Instagram: @denisegasserart


Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown


Art Juice brings you honest, generous, and humorous conversations that will feed your creative soul and get you thinking with artists Alice Sheridan and Louise Fletcher.

See Alice Sheridan at:

⁠⁠⁠⁠www.alicesheridan.com ⁠⁠⁠⁠

⁠⁠⁠⁠@alicesheridanstudio⁠⁠⁠⁠

Find more about Louise Fletcher:

⁠⁠⁠⁠www.louisefletcherart.com⁠⁠⁠⁠

⁠⁠⁠⁠@louisefletcher_art⁠⁠⁠⁠


Credits: "Monkeys Spinning Monkeys" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License


Transcript

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And the same thing happens with social media. If you are putting your worth in the hands of other people,

0:06.6

you're playing a very dangerous game.

0:09.3

Hello and

0:15.0

welcome to Art Juice. This is honest, generous and humorous conversations that will feed your

0:19.0

creative soul and get you thinking with me Alice Sheridan and today I have got a guest joining me

0:26.2

who I reached out to when I saw a reel that she posted all about how

0:32.3

Instagram was affecting artists and it was basically too good of an opportunity to pass up and I thought rather than me discuss that let's get her on and we will chat about it. Welcome Denise Gassa. Hello. that's

0:43.7

get her on and we will chat about it.

0:42.9

Welcome Denise Gassa.

0:44.5

Hello.

0:45.5

Hi, thanks so much for having me on.

0:48.6

Where are you calling in from?

0:50.3

Where do you live and work?

0:52.4

I am in Utah now. I've been in a few different places. I was in

0:56.3

Canada for like eight years up in Vancouver, but I grew up here and we moved back here about three years ago and we're

1:03.4

moved back here about three years ago and we're really liking it here.

1:04.4

It's been awesome.

1:06.2

We were just chatting before we started recording.

1:09.2

I think I've been following Denise on Instagram for a very long time. How long ago was it that you did that project

1:18.2

that we were talking about and can you just summarize that in your own words? Because I

1:22.1

remember seeing it and thinking this is a genius

1:24.4

little idea of a way of dealing with making art at this stage of life and this is something that's kind of

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