Ep. 114: Ann Shen on Reinvention Pt. 1
Unperform with Tiffany Han (formerly Raise Your Hand Say Yes)
Tiffany Han
4.7 • 525 Ratings
🗓️ 9 November 2016
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Ann Shen is an illustrator and writer and the creative genius behind the new book Bad Girls Throughout History. In this episode, we talk about how Ann started making art in her mid-20's in a decision that took her out of her "looks good on paper" career and put her into full-time art school!
We also talked about her new book, why she decided to focus on female trailblazers, and some of the surprising lessons she learned about "history" along the way.
If you're curious about what it takes to create a book like this, go back to art school as an adult, or rewrite (or reinterpret) stories, this episode is for you!
Bonus: Ann will also be back on the podcast next week for Part 2!
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Ann's Book - Bad Girls Throughout History
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to another episode of Raise Your Hand, Say Yes, with Tiffany Hahn, a podcast all about the creative adventures of extraordinary people. |
| 0:10.9 | To get information on today's episode and past episodes, visit Tiffanyhan.com slash podcast. |
| 0:17.2 | Now on to the show. |
| 0:20.8 | Hey guys, it's Tiffany and welcome back to another episode of Raise Your Hands say yes, yeah. |
| 0:28.8 | Hope that you are having a good week so far. |
| 0:32.9 | If you are tuning in the day this goes up, it is Election Day here in the U.S. And so everyone is feeling |
| 0:39.9 | the nerves and the edge. And like, I think everyone is feeling that kind of election |
| 0:47.3 | hangover that's just constant. So hopefully this conversation that you're about to listen to is a pretty good distraction from some of that. |
| 0:59.0 | And, you know, I like to think about times of, you know, emotional turmoil with politics and things that for me, I think about creativity as being just part of our |
| 1:14.5 | humanity. And that was something that we talked about last week when I was chatting with |
| 1:20.2 | Flora Bowley. So I always, I find these conversations super inspiring as a way to remind me |
| 1:27.2 | what's really important in the work |
| 1:29.9 | that I'm doing and help give me hope that people are good and that humanity is good and that |
| 1:37.3 | this world is ultimately good. So hopefully this will also do that for you or it it will just be another inspiring, lovely conversation. |
| 1:48.1 | I am super stoked this week to be talking with Anne Shen and I met Anne, gosh, back at Craftcation in 2015. |
| 2:06.7 | So we've known each other for about a year and a half now. And she is an illustrator and now an author and an artist whose work is amazing. I followed her for a long |
| 2:13.9 | time online. And she has a new book that just came out called bad girls throughout |
| 2:19.2 | history where she both illustrates wonderful portraits and writes essays about some of our world's |
| 2:27.9 | most well-known bad girls and you're going to we're going to talk about the book in this conversation and about how |
| 2:36.8 | it wasn't just like famous women or inspiring women, but her goal with the book was to really |
| 2:42.3 | illustrate trailblazers. And I'm captivated by the idea of trailblazers because I think |
| 2:48.6 | trailblazers are the kind of heroes of the |
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