A Hand Extended
Welcome. If you’ve found your way here, you’re meant to be here.
This space, Art-Ed Musings, isn’t about answers or authority. It’s about the process. Not just the artistic process, but the process of being human through art. The days when it flows. The days when it doesn’t. The parts that feel radiant, and the parts that feel like a slow, scraping undoing.
I’ll be writing here regularly, not to offer quick tips or tidy solutions, but to reflect honestly on what it means to live a creative life. To share the frustrations and doubts, the moments of joy and momentum, the mistakes and the breakthroughs. The small things that don’t always make it into a portfolio, exhibition, or lesson plan, but matter just as much.
This is the rhythm of the Artuitive Process, the heart of what I teach, make, and believe. It reminds us, always, that creativity is cyclical, layered, unpredictable. That we are not machines producing outcomes, but people moving through something raw and real.
Whether you’re a student, teacher, inquirer, or professional artist, this applies to you. If you’re engaging with art in a meaningful way, you will meet resistance. You’ll feel frustration, elation, exhaustion, immersion. You’ll question yourself. You’ll start again. You’ll find something new, lose it, and then discover it again — not in the same place, but somewhere deeper.
This is the same as life.
And if you really want to live, to feel your way into who you are, you have to be willing to be uncomfortable. Because that discomfort is the edge where transformation happens. Growth doesn’t come from certainty. It comes from showing up, honestly, to what is. Again and again.
Of course, we all have a choice. We can step back into comfort, to the known, the predictable, the safe. That’s okay. But it’s also a kind of stillness that keeps us from evolving.
Art-Ed Hub was created to offer an alternative. A space that supports you not just with resources and ideas, but with encouragement to keep going. To keep asking. To keep making. It invites you to step bravely into the unknown, not alone, but together.
This ‘musing’ is my way of extending a hand. Of saying: you’re not the only one. Whatever stage of the journey you’re in, you’re part of something bigger. Together, we can learn to sit with the hard parts, to celebrate the breakthroughs, and to trust that this work, this living through art, is the only way forward.
Thank you for being here.
More soon.
In art and becoming,
Nikki
