The Art:Work Ratio
The Art:Work Ratio podcast explores how artists and creatives balance their creative goals and projects with their professional work lives and careers. Whether you do creative work full time, part time, as a side hustle, or as a personal passion, we want to normalize finding the art-to-work ratio (hence Art:Work) that best supports your unique experience.
This project emerged out of a gap I saw in the presentation of creative jobs and side-hustles in media. The classic, depressing idea of the “starving artist” is juxtaposed against this grandiose idea of artists going “viral” online and quitting their full time jobs to pursue their passions. I felt like we needed more realistic representation.
In this podcast, I’ll speak with creatives of all kinds about their creative journey and their work/art/life balance, and we’ll break some of the common myths and misconceptions around creative work. What does it really mean to be a full-time artist? What does a day-in-the-life look like for someone who’s pursuing their creative dreams outside of their day job? And what about creativity as a hobby and NOT a side-hustle?
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Episode 1. The Art:Work Ratio
Welcome to the very first episode of the Art:Work Ratio podcast! My name is Lydia and this project is all about exploring how artists balance their creative goals alongside the work that pays the bills. What’s your art-to-work ratio? Some people are full-time creatives and artists, while others have completely unrelated jobs during the day and delve into their personal projects at night. Even still, you have folks who work a creative day job but pursue their own creative projects separately. No matter how you work or create, you are an artist, and this podcast is setting out to normalize all the different ways we engage with our creativity, within our daily work and outside of it.
In this episode, Lydia explains why this topic is important to her and shares some of her career backstory that led her to creating this show.