Spin Off Sales Ideas with Robin Davisson [208]

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

Louise Fletcher/Alice Sheridan

Visual Arts, Arts

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Robin's aim is to subvert some of the traditional, outdated aspects of the art world that keep art out of reach for many and to make it more attainable for all. It didn't start out this way. In fact, it started (as for many of us) by taking over the end of a table and choosing just to create. Today Alice is talking with Washington DC artist Robin Davisson, and a member of the Connected Artist Club, about a career shift from science into art. She now has a shop-front store; StudioLab RD where the aim is to be inclusive and part of the community, nurturing connections and bringing people together. Her inventive approach has lead Robin beyond making and selling paintings on her website and in this episode she shares ideas from an Art Lovers Collective, to Art Parties and Salon evenings. How can you subvert what's the expected norm? We talk about making brave moves - and the minutae of getting it all done and figuring it out as you go. You can grab a free copy of the weekly planner template Robin mentions HERE FOR FREE . The Connected Artist Club is open until 31st May 2023. You can join other artists inside the membership and find out more about it here: ⁠FIND OUT MORE HERE⁠ Mentioned Find out more about Robin on her website where you can find out about Art Parties or sign up for the Art Lovers’ Collective www.robindavissonart.com or follow her on Instagram : @robindavissonart “Your Brain on Art” by Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross 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

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0:00.0	The more confident I became in those kind of business side of things, you know,
0:06.1	the more confident I started getting in my art. Hello everybody and welcome to art juice. This is honest, generous and humorous
0:20.3	conversations that will feed your creative soul and get you thinking with me Alice Sheridan and usually Louise Fletcher.
0:28.0	Today I have a guest with me. I'm really excited to introduce you to Robin Davison. She has been in my world for a while and I have
0:38.0	watched her make amazing transformation from one career path into building an incredible life as an artist and reaching out into the community and really growing that part of it. So we're going to be talking today about all kinds of ideas for like spin-off ideas that will help your art sales and get you thinking a little bit more creatively but before we dive
1:05.1	into all of that Robin tell us where you are and what a usual week looks like for you and I love
1:12.0	the fact that although we are now talking
1:14.3	creatively you actually came from a totally different background tell us
1:19.4	about that oh yeah well first of all, thank you, Alice, for having me. This is such a thrill. I am a big
1:27.6	art juice fan, so it's really fun and it's always fun to talk to you. So thank you for having me today.
1:36.4	Yeah, so I did I had a major life transformation started about coming up on five years ago.
1:46.2	So my background is I'm a scientist.
1:49.2	I'm a molecular physiologist.
1:51.9	I was a professor at this university
1:55.6	in upstate New York called Cornell University.
1:58.6	And I did that career for 25 years. That's all I ever did. I was
2:05.0	I was very much a STEM-oriented person from the time I was a little tiny kid and it was my whole life. I had kind of reached a bit of a crossroads in my life. I don't I hate to say it wasn't a crisis. It wasn't quite the crisis point, but it was a crossroads.
2:25.2	We had moved for my husband's job to Washington, D.C., which is where I am now.
2:31.0	And I thought, you know, know it was like it's okay I'm just gonna commute back you know
2:37.0	commute back well it turns out it was just it was kind of a nightmare taking planes, trains, and automobiles every week every two weeks to do this
2:49.1	It just got to a point where I just knew I wasn't I wasn't going to be able to sustain it. You know I was able to kind of just take a step back and look and what I decided to do is take a sabbatical. On the first week of that sabbatical I wanted to do
3:04.0	something very different. I wanted to mark the time and do something very
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