Welcome to Your Brand Amplified, the podcast where we interview marketers, publicists, and

brands to learn their stories, what makes them tick, and tips and tricks that make a difference. Hello, welcome back to your brand Amplified.

I'm Manneka Jackson and I'm doing something a little different.

We are going to be doing an entrepreneur spotlight

and today we have an amazing artist we have

Theresa Polly Shellcroft who has a master's in fine art is an artist and nonprofit founder and just all around amazing human being with a great story.

So Theresa, thank you so much for being on today.

Thank you. Thank you. Yeah. you so I'd love for you to talk to our audience a little bit about how you became

interested in art and what led you to pursue your passion?

Well, actually I was born this way.

I can't, I can't remember a time when it wasn't a choice in my life.

And throughout life, I've wondered about that but now I have a granddaughter who is six and she's been saying since she was three years old I'm an artist I'm an artist so I love it. He proved it to me. So there was there wasn't ever a question about what I wanted to do. It just always was and I had a very supportive family. My grandfather

bought me my first set of oil paints when I was eight years old and every time I think about me sitting at my grandmother's dining

room table painting I shut her thinking.

So when I got, I got, well, then I learned sewing around the same age. So when I got to college, I wanted to major in art and sewing, and they said, well, you can't do both. I said, okay, well, it was art, music, and sewing and they said, well, you can't do both.

I said, okay, well, it was art, music, and sewing.

I said, well, you can't do all of those.

So I stayed with art.

Well, I have one of my questions is going to be

if your family was supportive of you becoming an artist because I think families typically want us to have more standard typical day job type majors and careers, but it's so fantastic that they didn't put you in that box like that.

No, actually where I went to college you had to get a teaching credential. So you majored in art but my teaching

credential was art education and that's so you could have a job when you graduated.

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