And so it begins…
Hello beautiful people! My name is Isabella Thuringer, I am an independent artist based in Indianapolis, Indiana, and I am looking forward to building a community! This is my first blog post, so I’m still getting used to how it all works, bear with me please!
These posts are going to be one of the main ways that I keep people updated on what I am working on currently, where my art is being featured, and what I’m working towards in the future; so here we go!
These past few months have been a bit of a whirlwind of trying to get used to living outside of parents/school/built-in-community. My husband and I are on our own out here, and boy is it different than everything I’ve ever known. Trying to find other artists in a world totally unfamiliar to me is way harder than I thought it was going to be; how do I get set up? How do I become known? Who am I as an artist outside of assignments? I’ve been putting off making a website, updating my socials, talking to actual people because of that one looming question, what if I fail?
When I was in school, failure was technically an option, but always something that could easily be remedied; out here in the real world, it is much much scarier. So after about a month and a half of ‘pretending’ to be a real artist, it was time to actually buckle down. I am an artist, time to start acting like one.
What I’ve been working on recently are scenes from Germany, the Netherlands, and Austria. My family took a trip to Europe last summer, and everything was just so different and beautiful, I couldn’t help but take photos knowing that someday I was going to depict those in an art piece.
I currently have one art piece in a show in Kansas City, and another one that I’m working on boxing up to send out to Wisconsin. I’ve been applying to a lot of art shows across the country, trying to get used to the feeling of being rejected but just needed to pick myself up and apply to another five right away. My art is not dependent on the opinions of jurors that I have never met.
I’ve also been working one starting to build up my social medias. About eight years ago my dad helped me set up an instagram page for my art, which of course gets about 10 likes per image and reaches approximately no one but the very kind people who knew me when I was a kid. As much as I love having my friends from high school scroll past my part without pausing, I really want to reach more people. I want to be known, and that means learning how to make videos and reels and posts that actually mean something. It’s a technical age, and I don’t know how to work it but I’m still going to try.
That’s what I have to report so far, next week I’ll talk more about a small series I’ve been brainstorming, Leftovers.
Thank you for reading,
Isabella
