About Fickle Flower Arts

Welcome to Fickle Flower Arts, an online arts and crafts shop dedicated to empowering, inspiring, and healing through creativity.

 

Artist Statement

For most of my career, I have been a coach, project manager, and up to my elbows in training and leadership research. Since my first adult ceramics class in 2019, I’ve enjoyed being up to my elbows in clay as often as possible. Tinkering at Lill Street and with the Chicago Parks ceramics classes for years, I have built an introductory understanding of ceramics. 

 

In the past year, I dove deeper and regularly committed more than 10 hours a week between the wheel, hand building, and jewelry pieces. I am fascinated with the medium, the sensory experience, and the practice is fulfilling, calming, and, the tangible learning experience is very motivating. 

 

As an instructional designer, I took an agile approach to every project: iterating, testing, and tweaking until things worked. That agility and forward-focus translates well into my ceramics practice. If the worst-case scenario is just a wet mud ball, let’s get weird. 

 

 At the beginning of 2023, I joined a women’s arts collective dedicated to empowering, inspiring, and healing through creativity. After a year of artistic exploration, and faced with too much of my work crowding my bookshelves, I decided to start selling and Fickle Flower Arts blossomed. Creating an artistic outlet for myself has inspired me to create a series of workbooks to shape the direction of the collective and allow the community to grow. 

My ultimate goal is to celebrate and grow the collective workshops for groups of queer and women artists and provide space to be brave, sell cool art, participate in a community, make mistakes, meet other great artists, and workshop life together for 12 weeks at a time. I believe in the transformative power of art and creativity, paying attention to the details of life, self-care and exploration. I hope to inspire other creative spirits to rejoice in beautiful imperfect things. 

 

Every terrible first attempt is a success when a second attempt is born. Always testing and prototyping, I will forever enjoy chasing new projects and wild ideas.