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Design matters way back next week with new shows.

In the meantime, we wanted to replay this interview from November of 2019.

I worry a little bit that we're becoming a society who doesn't want to sort of sit down

and practice things because we're so used to things happening for us immediately.

This is Design Matters with Debbie Mellman.

For 15 years, Debbie Mellman has been talking with designers and other creative people about what they do,

how they got to be who they are, and what they're thinking about and working on.

On this episode, a conversation with artist and illustrator Lisa Kongden about getting started creatively.

Finding your style is one thing, but start with what's interesting to you as the basis for what you want to make.

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It isn't easy to become or to survive as an artist.

No one knows this better than Lisa Kongden, who didn't become a professional artist and illustrator until she was in her late 30s.

But when she did, she made it big.

She's also published numerous best-selling books, art ink, the essential guide for building your career as an artist,

fortune favors the brave, and a glorious freedom, older women leading extraordinary lives.

She's most recently published another how-to book for creative people.

This one is titled Find Your Artistic Voice, the essential guide to working your creative magic.

Lisa joins me today in front of a live audience at Jen Beckman's brand new gallery space, 20 by 200 in Brooklyn, New York.

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