Starling
Topics and practices to explore creativity as a life enriching force. Artist and educator Amy Markham explores development in creative thinking meant to encourage personal growth and progress in all artistic endeavors. Join in as she discusses how an artistic practice can deepen and enrich our personal life experience. These discussions & exercise will engage your creative spirit and direct you towards finding your authentic expressive voice.
Episodes
49 episodes
Enjoying The Process, Marketing & All
In this episode I share a little about my own process and what I have been up to since the last episode, almost a year ago. Hint, I have been focused on my work as an artist and preparing a path for my art to be shared. I invited my friend a...
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Season 5
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Episode 49
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1:10:50
Can Art Return Us To Ourselves?
Is society's relationship to individuals reflected in the way art is received in society? Is the group more important than the individual. This one dives into how the individual artistic process could help us all restore a sense of balance to t...
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Season 4
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Episode 48
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40:30
Gift Economy & Experiences
In this episode we look at the powerful book The Gift by Lewis Hyde. I share a personal experience of gift economy at work that happened in New Orleans, a city that has offered me many lessons over the years. I know it has been a while ...
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Season 4
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Episode 47
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36:54
Art Is Magic: More On The Divine Imagination
Not that I have managed to actually hide that I believe art is a magical practice and spiritual tradition but in this episode I am more honest about that and share a bit about moving into alignment with the realm of Imagination. And how we are ...
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Season 4
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Episode 46
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44:20
Burtonesque: The Influence of Tim Burton
It's been a while. After a 6th month hiatus, I return with an episode on artist and director Tim Burton. Learn about the life ofTim Burton, his work and consider how making a connection with a living artist gives us touchstones in our own...
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Season 4
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Episode 45
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50:30
Art, Science & Influence
Many people feel like the arts and the sciences are completely different fields that don't have much in common. But, that is just a lie we have been told. The Prussian scientist Alexander Von Humboldt understood how interconnected everything re...
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Season 3
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Episode 44
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41:57
Sources of Inspiration: Muse, Angel & Duende
Do you believe that there are mysterious forces and energies behind the creative process? In this episode we explore muses, angels and duende discussed by Federico Garcia-Lorca in his famous essay The Theory & Play of The Duende. Where do w...
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Season 3
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Episode 43
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41:35
Finding Balance with Rachel Martin
Kinesthetic creative Rachel Martin joins me for a discussion on balance...and we had no idea how much we would have to recenter and remember to direct our attention until we started recording. Let's just say, symbolism and metaphor showed up to...
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Season 3
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Episode 42
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1:23:08
Design, Storytelling & Fine Art With Becky Kilimnik
How do you wear all the hats as a multi potential creative? In this episode I welcome graphic designer, podcaster and artist Becky Kilimnik to discuss some of the similarities and differences between fine art and graphic design. Becky also use ...
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Season 3
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Episode 41
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1:10:35
Imagination Is Divine
Imagination is one of the four realms I call The Artistic Realms. In this episode we explore the shoreline of Imagination and I offer you the map William Blake created of the levels of imagination as he understood them. We will explore those le...
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Season 3
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Episode 40
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39:23
Images, Advertising and Our Imagination
How do the images of marketing and advertising connect to our imagination? Is it for better or for worse? And how does it affect what creative people create? This episode looks at the father of modern marketing, Edward Bernays, and considers ho...
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Season 3
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Episode 39
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42:03
Cultivating The Inner Critic
As 2021 starts, I feel it important to discuss how we cultivate our inner critic. After spending time with creative play we have to switch roles and see how our critical self helps the creative self become fully realized.The 4 step process of a...
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Season 3
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Episode 38
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47:16
Creative Play and The Goonies
All work and no play makes us dull...uninspired, bored and boring. In this episode, I share some characteristics of play meant to help us notice the difference between work and play. It is important to think about what the difference is between...
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Season 2
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Episode 37
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50:07
Seeing vs Aesthetic Experience
Have you had those moments of aesthetic experience, when all your senses align and you feel in tune with the universe. That is really different than just seeing things. Our visual senses may be overwhelmed, as we live in a world of constant ima...
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Season 2
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Episode 36
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1:19:42
May You Know Monsters
Monsters are so important to know, to create and to attempt to understand. In this episode I share a little about monsters in art and a lot about my favorite monster...The Monster that Mary Shelley created in Frankenstein. We discuss how he is ...
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Season 2
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Episode 35
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44:33
Once Upon A Time
How have the stories you interacted with influenced your life? Your art? Your creative development? What about the stories you wanted to avoid or ignore? How have those influenced you? Humans learn through narrative and artists have always been...
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Season 2
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Episode 34
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39:57
Artistic Discovery & Child's Mind
How do artists make discoveries? It often means going deep into the cave we fear to enter....at least we are often afraid to enter it as an adult. Kids love to explore things adults find scary. We know too much and limit ourselves. "The creativ...
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Season 2
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Episode 33
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36:08
Enjoy Your Process
How is your relationship with your muse? This episode goes into the creative process and our relationship with creativity. Learn a little about the Process Art Movement and how process is seen in the music of William Basinski. Discover more abo...
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Season 2
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Episode 32
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28:29
Themes of Human Experience
Being an artist means moving beyond subject matter and what we see with our eye and into themes of human experience. Learning to transform a simple subject into a way to discuss deeper personal connections and understandings allows for our own ...
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Season 2
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Episode 31
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38:23
Spiral Through
It's been over a month since my last episode on symbolic living, and a lot has changed. I have had to resign from my teaching job, because I felt it was unsafe to return to school with the rising virus cases here in Tennessee. This has had me r...
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Season 2
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Episode 30
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25:15
Symbolic Living
Many people struggle to understand the difference between a sign and a symbol, and what symbol creation is all about. In this episode we discuss how signs work with our consciousness and symbols work within our unconscious. We also take a peek ...
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Season 2
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Episode 29
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36:36
Attention & Authenticity
Artists must find a balance between focusing their attention on their creative work and seeking attention to have that work seen. How do the issues around attention help or hinder creative process? How does our personal relationship with attent...
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Season 2
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Episode 28
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37:25
Artistic Avatars & Alter Egos
In this episode we move into imagination, and the discussion gets a little more esoteric and metaphysical. Discover curated content and info at THIS LINK. Join in as we drop an anchor into art history a...
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Season 2
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Episode 27
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35:48
Home
In this episode we contemplate the influence and idea of home, and its impact on our creative development. We also discuss my favorite artist, Marc Chagall. For curated content around this episode and more information about Starling follow
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Season 2
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Episode 26
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34:56
Hope For The Humanities
Since my last episode, the world has changed. As we face this crisis, we consider whether entertainment, meaning or experience will help us through this...and how the experience we are all living through may be an invitation to return to Romant...
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Season 2
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Episode 25
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33:47