Why Creative Community Changes Everything
Original artwork by Marianne Mullen in Her Spirit Creates showing abstract, mixed figures
What do YOU call your spirit squad?
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What do YOU call your spirit squad? 〰️
There's a word for the people who show up in your creative life and actually get it. The ones who don't need you to explain why you're making art, or why it matters, or why you're crying in the middle of a collage class.
At Her Spirit Creates, we call them your Kindred Spirits.
You might call them something else. Your crew. Your people. Your "you had to be there" group.
The name doesn't matter. The function does.
What creative community actually does
It witnesses your work. There's something qualitatively different about making art in the presence of others versus making it alone. Being seen in the act of creating — before it's finished, before it's good, before you've figured out what it means — changes what's possible.
It holds you accountable in the best way. Not to a timeline or an output, but to showing up. To continuing. To not talking yourself out of it.
It reflects things back to you that you can't see yourself. The patterns in your work. The images you keep reaching for. The themes that keep surfacing. Other people notice these before you do.
It makes the room safer. When you're in a group of people who are also taking creative risks, the stakes of your own risk go down. Everyone is in it.
Finding your people
They're in art classes and workshops. In bookstores and coffee shops. In the places where people go to take care of their inner life.
Her Spirit Creates workshops are designed to be that kind of container — where your Kindred Spirits are in the room, even if you haven't met them yet.