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Art That Overcomes, 1860 Mellwood Avenue, Studio #185, Louisville, KY (2025)

09/17/2025

If you’re feeling overwhelmed by world events right now, please hear this message:

You are not obligated to speak out on every issue that tugs at your heart.

Let’s just stop a moment to feel our feelings (for goodness sakes) before we get on a soapbox and voice our thoughts and feelings publicly.

Maybe we’ll decide to keep our opinions private.

Or maybe we will decide to speak out.

But none of us are required to do it right away.

Breathe.......

In my free workbook, What Kind of World Will You Create?, I talk about the importance of taking time to feel, reflect, and create, before putting our creations out into the world.

Right now, amid the social and political unrest in America, I’m taking time to observe and listen. I’m reading and listening to other people’s thoughts and opinions on recent events. I’m taking in all the different perspectives.

I’m praying.
I’m processing.
I’m not rushing myself.

And if you’re feeling overwhelmed by pressure to take action, I invite you to join me in this pause.

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Comment CREATE to grab the workbook 👏

💖Jennifer

09/14/2025

We are creating more division than anything else.

I understand the need to make posts that share facts and information about what’s going on in the world.

There is certainly a place for that and I appreciate each and every one of you who posts information about world events, because that’s oftentimes the beginning of my awareness of those things.

However… let’s understand the limits of those kinds of posts and statements.

Unity is built through developing compassion and/or empathy for another person’s perspective. Their lived experience. Their beliefs. Their trauma. Their culture. Their grief and hurt.

We build this empathy through sharing our emotions and how we’re impacted, and by listening to others do the same.

By sharing our stories.

When we ONLY share facts and argue our point in the comments, we are likely not going to sway someone of the opposing side to see our viewpoint, much less respect it or change their own mind.

Arguments start. Anger rises. Hatred brews.

We need to see each other as human again.

Otherwise we create more division.

While our intention might be to help others understand and believe the truth, engaging in arguments won’t get us there.

So, share information. Share your story. Share about your grief or rage or fear.

Then let it go.

And when others try to argue, listen. Then, if need be…

Let it go.

Pray.

If someone shows that they are listening and want to hear more, THEN keep talking.

This is all very hard to navigate and I speak as someone who struggles with it.

Christians, especially: there’s no excuse to spew hate.

✌️ Jennifer

09/10/2025

The world needs your art NOW... more than ever!

Sometimes, creating art can seem frivolous, or self-indulgent.

When so many people feel that the world is crashing down around them, is it really worth my time to create art, music, or poetry?

YES.

Your art not only serves as a tool for you to process and heal, but the finished product... living and breathing out in the world... is helping others to process and heal their own pain.

That is the power that you have as a creative.

NOW is the time to dive more deeply into your creative practice. You need it. And so do we.

If you’re appreciating the posts I’ve been sharing, and you’re excited to join the Art That Overcomes creative collective, I have something very important for you to do!

Comment YES to join my new email list (full of committed creatives like you), so that you don’t miss a beat!

Or go to my bio!

✨🎨✨

💖Jennifer

09/03/2025

The concept of “I was here” has always been thought provoking for me (yes, I think deeply about graffiti on bathroom stalls).

It speaks to something we all desire…. To be seen and heard. To know that we matter. To leave our mark on the world.

I have an old book of black and white photographs called “I Wrote My Name on The Wall”. It’s a 1970’s children’s book by Ronni Solbert. She took photographs of kids playing on their city streets, sidewalks, and front stoops. The images are paired with descriptions written from the kids’ point of view.

She captured their world.

One image shows two boys standing in front of a large concrete wall, full of names scratched into the surface. The text reads:

“They put up this cement wall
and we wrote our names in it.
All the kids on the block.
I wrote mine in three different places.
J-O-H-N, that’s me.”

I think we all long to write our name on the wall, so to speak.

I was here.

That’s part of why I’m forming the Art That Overcomes creative collective (and it’s why you should join me).

It’s why I make art.

Where’s your wall?
How are you writing your name?

J-E-N-N-I-F-E-R, that’s me.

🌟🎨🌟

Art That Overcomes is a creative collective of artists giving voice to trauma and oppression.

My future vision for the Art That Overcomes monthly membership includes opportunities for each member to take over the platform and share their art, their voice, their ideas, and their message.

I’ll coach you through it, but you decide how it all shows up.
Virtual art exhibit?
Live online concert?
Group calls?
An in-person meet-up?

This isn’t just about my voice; it’s about all of us coming together, learning, and supporting one another’s visions within the Art That Overcomes platform and then taking our creative rebellions outside into our separate, real-world spaces.

I hope you’ll join the Art That Overcomes movement with me!

You can start by downloading your free workbook, WHAT KIND OF WORLD WILL YOU CREATE?

Comment CREATE and I’ll send it ✨

💖Jennifer

08/29/2025

My happy place. Loving how all these pieces are simultaneously emerging. Still have a lot of work to do! Solo art exhibit coming up in November 2025 ✨🎨✨

08/27/2025

“Art is a very dangerous thing to oppressors. It humanizes the people who oppressors desperately need to be dehumanized in the eyes of the world.”
- Jaiya John

Parts of our country’s history are being erased from museums and libraries.

The truth is being whitewashed and covered up, as some leaders seek to gaslight us into believing a false reality.

We (the artists!) are equipped to speak truth amid the lies... amid the silencing of who we are and where we’ve come from.

Do you feel called?
Do you feel moved?

Do you feel a pull to create something that impacts the world and speaks to your culture, beliefs and history?

Do you feel nudged to bring awareness to sensitive or controversial topics, using your creative voice?

Does your art give voice to the trauma and pain shared by so many?

Does your art bring joy and light and life to a weary world?

You don’t only speak for yourself with your art; you speak for those who do not have the voice, platform, vision, creativity, or calling that you do.

What will you say?
What story will you tell?

Art That Overcomes is a creative collective of artists giving voice to trauma and oppression.

My future vision for the Art That Overcomes monthly membership includes opportunities for each member to take over the platform and share their art, their voice, their ideas, and their message.

I’ll coach you through it, but you decide how it all shows up.
Virtual art exhibit?
Live online concert?
Group calls?
An in-person meet-up?

This isn’t just about my voice; it’s about all of us coming together, learning, and supporting one another’s visions within the Art That Overcomes platform and then taking our creative rebellions outside into our separate, real-world spaces.

I hope you’ll join the Art That Overcomes movement with me!

You can start by downloading your free workbook, WHAT KIND OF WORLD WILL YOU CREATE?
✨🎨✨ Comment CREATE and I’ll DM you

08/21/2025

Do you feel a rebellion inside of you, waiting to come out?

Artists are the rebels of our society.

We are brave.
We are honest.
Our creativity compels us.

We are the thought leaders.
We are the change makers.
We are the visionaries.

We are the truth seekers.

Each one of us is a walking Creative Rebellion.

We are often fiercely independent, and yet...

We need each other’s support to get our creations and our messages out into the world.

What good is your honest, rebellious, and visionary creativity if it stays trapped inside your mind, journal, or studio?

You are doing the world a disservice by keeping that song in your soul, only dancing in the basement, or stalling at Chapter One.

I’m forming the Art That Overcomes creative collective so we can help each other out with this.

No more staying stuck and hidden.

Confidence and clarity in our creative work comes from taking action.

My future vision for the Art That Overcomes monthly membership includes opportunities for each member to take over the platform and share their art, their voice, their ideas, and their message.

I’ll coach you through it, but you decide how it all shows up.
Virtual art exhibit?
Live online concert?
Group calls?
An in-person meet-up?

This isn’t just about my voice; it’s about all of us coming together, learning, and supporting one another’s visions within the Art That Overcomes platform and then taking our creative rebellions outside into our separate, real-world spaces.

I hope you’ll join the Art That Overcomes movement with me!

You can start by downloading your free workbook, WHAT KIND OF WORLD WILL YOU CREATE?
(Comment CREATE and I’ll send it!)

💖Jennifer

08/20/2025

I use the creative process to identify and express my emotions in prayer.

The artwork here is part of a current series exploring how I am bridging the gap between my internal and outer worlds.

The shapes floating on the surface represent the people I come in contact with throughout life, and the sometimes beautiful, painful, or awkward dance of interaction between us.

God has given me a vision for serving others, but sometimes I wonder, “How?”.

The practical steps I am called to take feel intangible at times; difficult to grasp.

I’m forming the Art That Overcomes creative collective as a space for us to come together and practice sharing our art.

It’s one of the ways I’m seeking to live out this calling of serving others.

It’s a place for you to take the stage and explore your own creative voice and the message that your soul wants to carry into this world.

My future vision for the Art That Overcomes monthly membership includes opportunities for each member to take over the platform and share their art, their voice, their ideas, their message...their creative rebellion.

I’ll coach you through it, but you decide how it all shows up.
Virtual art exhibit?
Live online concert?
Group calls?
An in-person meet-up?

This isn’t just about my voice; it’s about all of us coming together, learning, and supporting one another’s visions within the Art That Overcomes platform and then taking our creative rebellions outside into our separate, real-world spaces.

I hope you’ll join the Art That Overcomes movement with me!
You can start by downloading your free workbook, WHAT KIND OF WORLD WILL YOU CREATE?
(comment CREATE and I’ll send it)

💖Jennifer

08/19/2025

Are you a truth teller too?
I hope you’ve gone ahead and downloaded your free workbook, WHAT KIND OF WORLD WILL YOU CREATE? (Comment CREATE and I’ll send it)

Whether you and I have just met, or you’ve been hanging out here for a while, I bet I know a thing or two about you...

It’s not just because we’re both creatives and that means I understand why you need space and time to think/process and need safe places to share your passions and creations...

It’s also because you’ve probably been through some stuff.

And while it’s likely different from my stuff, I’m not a stranger to trauma either.

What I know about you and me is this:

Trauma survivors are truth tellers.

We don’t tolerate lies, manipulation, or omission of facts.

We need you to be direct, open, honest, and tell it like it is.

Don’t be offended when you’d prefer to walk on eggshells and we choose to call you out, set boundaries, and ask for the whole truth.

Don’t be surprised when we set you straight about who the abusers really are, behind the facade.

We’ve allowed ourselves to be used and condescended to for too long.

Even if you mean well, trust us when we tell you that we need a different style of communication.

There’s no room for anything less than the truth in the life of a healing trauma survivor.

And that’s precisely why America’s current political climate is triggering AF!

But for as long as I can remember, I’ve found healing and clarity in my creative practice (no matter the dumpster fire that surrounds me).

As long as I can write, draw, paint, decorate my home, and make up silly songs... I can breathe, and feel like me again.

And as long as I can stay connected to like-minded artists like you, and speak my truth, through my creative expressions, to anyone who will listen...

I know I’m going to be okay.

Can you relate?

I hope you’ll join the Art That Overcomes movement with me!

Comment CREATE for your free workbook!

💖Jennifer

08/11/2025

What if we can change the world?

I believe that artists like us will, in fact, change the world...one creative rebellion at a time.

Forming the Art That Overcomes creative collective is one way we’re going to do this.

What am I talking about?

Here’s my definition of a Creative Rebellion:

Any creative act that aims to introduce new and original ideas that go against the norm. (What if we have more power to change the world than we thought?)

And here’s my definition of a Creative Collective:

A group of humans who identify as creative and share a common identity or goal. A collective is also controlled by the people who are a part of it.

An organized Creative Rebellion, if you will 😉

My future vision for the Art That Overcomes monthly membership includes opportunities for each member to take over the platform and share their art, their voice, their ideas, their message...their rebellion.

I’ll coach you through it, but you decide how it all shows up.
Virtual art exhibit?
Live online concert?
Group calls?
An in-person meet-up?

This isn’t just about my voice; it’s about all of us coming together, learning, and supporting one another’s visions for taking our creative rebellions outside of the Art That Overcomes platform, into the real world.

While I’m exploring which platform will be the best fit for us, I’ve got a gift for you... a way to go ahead and get started.

Comment CREATE for direct access to my free workbook: What Kind of World Will You Create?

I designed it to help you think and feel your way through the planning of your creative rebellion.

07/24/2025

What do you *really* create when you make art? What meaning or intention is beneath the surface?

07/24/2025

Sometimes I wish that I wasn’t creative.

Sometimes I wish that I could be content to live a linear life, with no need for adventure.

Sometimes I envy those who don’t feel a constant urge to stir things up, create new projects, and generate idea after idea after idea.

My brain doesn’t stop dreaming, planning, and making new things out of nothing.

I’m not content in my 9-5 job.

I don’t like being told what to do.

And I can’t bear the thought of staying put for the rest of my life and accepting a paycheck for following the rules.

But as artists, writers, musicians, and creatives of all kinds….

We weren’t born to follow the rules.

We aren’t here to blend in, sit down, and accept the status quo.

We were designed to create our own paths… and to call others to join our cause.

What do you dream of creating in this world?

Even if it sounds crazy.

Even if it seems too hard.

Even when others doubt you…

What do YOU want, Overcomer?

Just like me, there’s a voice inside YOU that is screaming to come out and shine.

You’ve got something to say, to write, to sing, to draw, to paint, to dance….

And there’s so much meaning and message behind it. There is so much inside you that others need to hear.

What is your Creative Rebellion?

What were you born to create in this world?

The answer is probably simpler than you think. It’s what makes you feel most alive. It’s what you could create for hours without anyone watching. It’s the message that burns a hole in your heart when you consider holding it in.

Will you join me in the Art That Overcomes movement?

We are a creative collective of artists giving voice to trauma and oppression.

We are using our creativity and our voices.

We are living out loud, and changing the world…

One Creative Rebellion at a time.

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