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What It Takes To Make Art Your Life

What It Takes To Make Art Your Life

One artist shares her decade-long journey across the globe to figure out if a life dedicated to art is worth the struggle.

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September 11, 202550m 20s

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Show Notes

Building a life as an artist is an uphill climb. After decades of hustling to make it work, writer Stephanie Elizondo Griest had one big question: How do you determine if art is worth all the sacrifice it requires? Stephanie tells Anita about traveling the world for answers and what she learned about what it takes to build a life as a female artist.

Meet the guest:

- Stephanie Elizondo Griest is a professor of creative nonfiction at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the author of “Art Above Everything: One Woman’s Global Exploration of the Joys and Torments of a Creative Life

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