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Creativity as a source for regenerating, reimagining, healing and thriving. Art, graphic newsletters, coloring pages, prompts and reflections from artist Jen Bloomer.
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What We Preserve (opens the original)
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Last summer, Elizabeth, the owner of Preserved Goods reached out and hired me to paint a mural in their new workshop space in Oakland. It was such a fun gig and felt so aligned with the type of work I have been making! Their mission is to nourish and enrich community through sharing advice, selling fermenting supplies and leading experiential classes. As I painted the mural, people came into the shop asking all kinds of questions I had never considered about sourdough starter and handmade kombuc
Learning from the little ones (opens the original)
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I remember my first year teaching art at an elementary school watching how the kindergarteners and 1st graders were so full of free wild expression. Their paintings often went off the sides of the paper and outside the lines they had drawn. They used a wild range of colors and layered the paint based on impulse and whim. Every kid’s style was so unique and different. The second grade classrooms were always a completely different vibe- groups of friends imitated each other’s colors, shapes and de
More art in our spaces (opens the original)
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I grew up Colorado and got to go to Europe for the first time when I was 23. My kids went for the first time when they were a couple of months old. They are regularly surrounded by multiple languages, float between cultures like it’s normal, and walk like it’s no big thing that the sidewalk beneath their feet is a mosaic of hand carved stones.We just got back from a long stay with my husband’s Eritrean Italian family in Italy. We went to places I’ve never been before (Cefalu), and places I can n
We Strategize (opens the original)
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This community knows me as a creative, an activist, a community person…. but you may not know that…I am a goofball that loves to crack jokes and laugh. It feel like such a core part of who I am but I can’t for the life of me figure out how to write funny in a way that doesn’t sound forced…. so you get the more straightforward version of me here in this newsletter, sorry! also…..I LOVE sports!Growing up I played soccer and basketball and volleyball, I ran track and cross country. I skied and swam
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