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Little Miss Voted For Kamala Harris ✅ Phone banks will be open all day with @Enviro_Voter Even if you can take 30 minutes today to hop on a call to a swing state, every call and vote counts!

For World Mental Health Day, I'll be speaking on a panel with @WeTheCarbonauts about Climate Anxiety in the workplace. It's Thursday at 1:30pm EST. RSVP here:

I’ve been trying to make “Monday Funday” a thing 😅 I start my week with something I’m excited about or particularly fun. One week I went to the Met on a Monday which is wild to call that work. Today I sketched in the park on an A+ weather day!

Yesterday was my first day of art class at School of Visual Arts! I am taking a class on how to write and illustrate chidren's books. We learned about the history of children's books and then made storyboards inspired by a 19th century rhyme. Mine accidentally turned out very dark with a little kid getting rejected from his long-lost parents 🙈 Definitely room for improvement there 😅 It feels SO good to be in art class again! Even thought I'm a full-time artist, I haven't taken a consistent art class since AP art in high school. I had a ton of fun taking a one-week course at The Center for Cartoon Studies this summer and have wanted to take classes at SVA for years. I'm so proud of myself for making the time to commit to this weekly and can't wait to see what I create!

I feel like I'm still catching my breath from climate week 🙈 I'm very much looking forward to hosting a Climate Week Decompression Art Workshop tomorrow! Come relax and make art with me 🎨 RSVP here:

I'm excited to be leading a climate art workshop for VERGE Conference on October 29 in SF! Who else will be there 🙋‍♀️

Climate week was intense! It would be easy to write up a normal climate week recap where I share only the rosy parts, but I wanted to give you a more honest picture of my week. One of my favorite reflection prompts is “Rose, thorn, bud.” I have memories of being at summer camp and my cabin sharing our highlights of the day (rose), challenges (thorn), and something you’re looking forward to (bud). So here are some of mine for Climate Week! Comment with yours 👋 Rose 🌹 -Making live art in front of John Kerry + Alex Honnold for the Canary Media Inc. event -Seeing Bill Nye the Science Guy -Having a coloring table at The Marketplace of the Future and selling my new coloring book! -Seeing climate friends I only get to see once a year 💖 Thorns ☔️ -Light existential crisis about my career. Honestly, this year has been much slower with client work than last year. I’m doing some big picture thinking about how to run a sustainable art business because I love what I do more than anything. Note: I’m all ears if you have suggestions! I’m thinking of doing some graphic design/climate communications consulting or broadening my offerings. -Sheer exhaustion. I did too much. By the end of the day I was a walking zombie and I slept for 10 hours, 3 nights in a row to catch up on sleep. -Carrying art supplies for 12 hours a day. I was working in the evening so I lugged watercolor supplies and paintings around all day while going to 3+ events all around the city. Buds 🌱 -Feeling very inspired by some of the talks and people I met. I want to get more involved with the election and this week gave me ideas on how to do that. -Making more art. I’m feeling more creatively inspired than ever and can’t wait to transform ideas from the week into art. -I want to make more live art of podcasts, events, and virtual conferences! This feels like a useful new skill to explore further. Shoot me a message if you want me to do this at your event!

Climate week was INTENSE! Today, I’m going to recharge my social battery. How can you recharge your social battery? Maybe that means going to bed early, cancelling plans, or spending time in nature. What nourishes you the most? I’m hosting a free Climate Week Decompression Art Workshop on Friday. This will be a time to calm your nervous system after a chaotic week and enjoy the benefits of making art for our mind and body. RSVP here:

Come color with me! I’ll be at Marketplace of the Future today selling signed copies of my new coloring book 🎨 I’ll be here 11-3pm!

In a miracle of miracles, I was able to sit down and write my Creative Recommendations for September after the longest week ever 😅 Each month, I curate my favorite things I’ve been reading, learning, and making art with. Reading Contrary to last month, I’ve barely had the brain space to read this month! I did finish reading Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud. It’s a very meta book, teaching about how comics are created as told by comics. There’s so much that can be extrapolated from this book on how to be an effective storyteller, communicator, and ways to understand the inner workings of different art mediums. Learning I learned how to make live art over the past few months in preparation for an event during climate week for Canary Media with John Kerry and Alex Honnold. I took a bunch of Youtube + Skillshare classes to scaffold my way towards understanding the skills required to do these. I worked on drawing people, having an icon library, structural hierarchy, and passive listening skills. I was very nervous and the event went great! I’m so proud of myself for being able to learn this entirely new skill and hope to do more soon! Listening to I’ll be the first to admit that my music preferences are not my most unique quality. Yes, I love Taylor Swift (but not to like an outrageous, doxxing an anti-Swiftie degree). One of my less embarrassing music choices is that that I like listening to classical music while I paint. This is the playlist I listen to for all my climate art workshops. I particularly love one classical pianist, Gibran Alcocer, and his track called Idea 10. Read the rest here:

Who's got Climate Week Bingo 🎉 What else was on your climate week bingo card?

I didn't have Bill Nye the Science Guy encouraging us to get out and vote on my climate week bingo card! Thank you to @itsSaadAmer and Time for Better for organizing an amazing event!

It’s halfway through climate week and this is a gentle reminder that you don’t have to do everything in one week 💖 Take care of yourself, drink some water, eat plenty of snacks. Working in climate is a marathon not a sprint!

As requested! I made a tote of my NY Climate Week painting 😊 Shop here:

Climate Week off to a strong start- I made live art in front of John Kerry and Alex Honnold last night! I was really nervous because this was the first time I’ve done art live for an event and practiced for months to get ready! I had an amazing time and can’t wait to do more of this. Thank you to @CanaryMediaInc and @pewtrusts for having me 😍 If you want me to do live art for your climate event or virtual conference shoot me a note!

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Here's my Climate Week Lineup! Shoot me a message if you'll be at any of these events so we can say hi 👋 What event are you looking forward to the most? Apparently I'm fairly free on Thursday and Friday if anyone has fun events I should check out. I'm trying to get on the list for Newlab New Climate Futures if anyone has an extra ticket for Thurs! Saturday -5:30pm Climate Film Fest Monday -2:30pm ReGen Ventures Climate Week Kickoff  6-10pm Climate Night Live with Canary Media + Pew. Doing Live art! Tuesday -11:30am Building a Climate Tech Brand That Gets Noticed  12-2:30pm Female Founders & Funders Lunch  -3pm MCJ LIVE Podcast with Tom Steyer - NY Climate Week  Leading Watercolor workshop with @MothersOutFront 6-8pm Climate Week Media Happy Hour  Wednesday -12:30pm Cook Seasonally & Sustainably w/ Chef Neal Harden  2-3pm Green Jobs Pavilion with Kristy at Javitz Center 3-5pm The Premiere Voting Event at Climate Week NYC with Saad Amer  -8:30pm Engage and Transform - A Gathering of Artists and Innovators in Climate. My art will be on display!  Thursday Need to get on list for Newlab during day 8pm- 11pm Climate Karaoke 🎤 Presented by SNØCAP & gener8tor  Friday TBD? Saturday 11am- 3pm Marketplace for the Future