Ep. #206: Creativity as Birthright + Magic and Art with Emily Prentice

Living Open | Modern Magick and Spirituality for Mystics and Seekers

Emily Prentice is an artist and arts educator living in West Virginia (Calicuas and Massawomeck land). Emily's work focuses on creative play: as resilience, as resistance, as radical joy.

In this episode, Emily and Eryn talk about:

• Emily’s journey with creativity and art
• Everyone is an artist and there’s no such thing as bad art
• How creativity helps us change the world
• What’s an artist?
• Dismantling creative binaries and hierarchies
• Orienting towards process rather than outcome
• Art as helping us live better
• Relationships with creativity
• Magic & art
• Play as resistance, play as a radical act
• What is play?
• How to re(connect) to play
• Cultivating curiosity
• The Fool card
• Bringing magic to the mundane
• Making art accessible and telling artist stories

Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/emily-prentice

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Check out Emily's work on her website, Instagram, and Playground Art School.

Mentioned in this episode:

• Pleasure Activism by adrienne maree brown
• Emily's very cool art stories book!