The Creative Collective

The Creative Collective Podcast is an inviting space where we explore how creativity can weave its way into everyday life and help us feel more connected to ourselves and others. Hosted by licensed art therapists Allie Joy and Emily Sharp, it’s rooted in one simple belief: you don’t have to be an artist to benefit from creativity. You just need a little curiosity and a willingness to begin. Each week, we share honest conversations and practical tools to support a creative life that feels sustainable, accessible, and truly yours. Welcome to your creative community.

The Creative Collective is a arts podcast hosted by Allie Joy and Emily Sharp, with 21 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Allie Joy and Emily Sharp hosts The Creative Collective, a arts show with 21 episodes published.

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  Episode #21

  Creative Nostalgia - Shrinky Dinks, Gak, and the Art Briefcase Where Nothing Worked

  Oct 4, 202645 min

  In this episode we chat about creative nostalgia - the craft supplies we wish we still had, the ones we still use, and those that can stay in the past. We go back to what we made as kids: giant poster-board birthday cards, clothes for American Girl dolls, slip-cast ceramic swans, and a whole bedroom wall of magazine collage. Beyond the fun creative supplies, we talk about why time felt so different back then, and how to pick a thread back up now without recreating your entire 1998 bedroom. Join us for a trip down memory lane. In this episode, they discuss: The giant homemade cards and that specific crayon smell Allie's grandmother's friends, who never once said "we can't make that" Which American Girl dolls we had Crayon bins, Play-Doh, scented markers, and Lisa Frank Brooklyn Public Library's new Craft Supply Library Why everyone should use their stickers today Resources & Links The Everyday Millennial Oracle by Elizabeth Su Pipsticks Brooklyn Public Library Craft Supply Library Klutz activity books Shrinky Dinks Make sure to subscribe so you don’t miss an episode, follow us on ⁠Instagram⁠ or visit our ⁠website⁠ to learn more. If you'd like to be a guest on the show, you can apply ⁠here.⁠ You can find Allie on ⁠Instagram⁠ or her ⁠website⁠ , and you can find Emily on ⁠Instagram⁠ or her ⁠website⁠ to learn more about all they do and stay connected You can find Austin on ⁠Instagram⁠ for all of your podcasting and musical needs If you enjoyed this episode, follow along and share it with someone who could use a little more creativity in their life. And this is your reminder that you don't have to be an artist to benefit from creativity. You're welcome, as you are, in this creative community.

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  Episode #20

  What If Creativity Looked Like a Garden? with Dominique Begnaud

  Sep 27, 202643 min

  What if the most creative thing you did this year was grow something? Dominique Begnaud is an art therapist in St. Louis who works with art, play, and gardening — and it's the gardening that we couldn't stop thinking about. She runs art and garden groups in community nonprofits and schools, and her practice is built on a simple idea: that tending something is a creative act. In this conversation she gets specific about what making art with plants actually looks like and how this changes with the seasons. She talks about what happens when a client who struggles to stay present tries hammering flowers. And she tells us about building gardens where ever she can find space and how this changes therapy spaces and communities. This is an art therapy podcast built around creative community, and Dominique's work is a reminder that community doesn't require a beautiful space. Sometimes it just requires a pot, a few seeds, and the patience to wait six weeks for something to happen. In this episode, they discuss: How flower pounding actually works, and what a hammer does for someone who has trouble staying in the present The difference between saying gardening is your therapy and practicing gardening therapy, and why Dominique is careful about that line The surprising places gardens can grow Why she tells clients they can just try something once, with no commitment to ever doing it again The one plant she thinks everyone should try growing, which is beautiful, edible, and works for both pressing and pounding Resources & Links Dominique Begnaud — therapy website and instagram Bowood Farms , St. Louis Missouri Botanical Garden Episode about letting yourself be bad at something Make sure to subscribe so you don’t miss an episode, follow us on ⁠Instagram⁠ or visit our ⁠website⁠ to learn more. If you'd like to be a guest on the show, you can apply ⁠here.⁠ You can find Allie on ⁠Instagram⁠ or her ⁠website⁠ , and you can find Emily on ⁠Instagram⁠ or her ⁠website⁠ to learn more about all they do and stay connected You can find Austin on ⁠Instagram⁠ for all of your podcasting and musical needs If you enjoyed this episode, follow along and share it with someone who could use a little more creativity in their life. And this is your reminder that you don't have to be an artist to benefit from creativity. You're welcome, as you are, in this creative community.

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  Episode #19

  Everything You’ve Always Wanted to Ask an Art Therapist

  Sep 20, 202633 min

  Here's the listener requested episode where we chat about all your Art Therapy FAQs! Emily and Allie answer the questions they get asked at parties, on airplanes, in comment sections, and occasionally by other mental health professionals who should probably know better. They cover what art therapy actually is, what it takes to become an art therapist in the US, and what those two letters after our names really mean. We cover some funny stories and the times we recommend lying about your job, as well as the times when you should shout it proudly. We laugh about the art therapy myths circulating online right now and what might have a bit of truth to it. Whether you're considering the field, already in it, or just curious what happens in that room - this art therapy podcast is for you. In this episode, they discuss: Why Allie stopped ignoring one particular comment section, and what it says about how misunderstood this profession still is inside the mental health field The actual path to becoming an art therapist in the US — the master's degree, the supervised hours, the board exam in a real testing center, and the difference between ATR and ATR-BC Whether you need to be good at art to become an art therapist, and why a trained painter sometimes has the hardest time in an art therapy session The enormous range of places this work happens Why both of them have considered lying about their jobs to strangers, and what changed their minds Resources & Links Art Therapy Credentials Board (ATCB) American Art Therapy Association (AATA) Life of Color - Allie's mandala design Gel Printing Summit - Emily's online workshop Make sure to subscribe so you don’t miss an episode, follow us on ⁠Instagram⁠ or visit our ⁠website⁠ to learn more. If you'd like to be a guest on the show, you can apply ⁠here.⁠ You can find Allie on ⁠Instagram⁠ or her ⁠website⁠ , and you can find Emily on ⁠Instagram⁠ or her ⁠website⁠ to learn more about all they do and stay connected You can find Austin on ⁠Instagram⁠ for all of your podcasting and musical needs If you enjoyed this episode, follow along and share it with someone who could use a little more creativity in their life. And this is your reminder that you don't have to be an artist to benefit from creativity. You're welcome, as you are, in this creative community.

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  Episode #18

  Did Adulthood Make Us Less Creative? with Rukmini Poddar

  Sep 13, 202640 min

  Rukmini Poddar didn't initially set out to teach anyone about drawing their emotions. In 2015, burnt out at the end of a graphic design degree and convinced she was the least consistent person alive, she started The 100 Day Project with no plan beyond touching the page every day. Ten years later she's the author of Draw Your Feelings , she leads workshops for individuals, schools, retreats and corporate teams, and she's built a global creative community out of people who mostly don't call themselves artists. In this episode, Rukmini takes us back to the twenty-three-year-old who had nothing to lose and posted her drawings to a few hundred followers, which later turned into a really inspiring creative community. She also walks us through what she actually teaches: how to get acquainted with the texture of a feeling before you try to draw it, why abstract beats representational every time, and why she thinks the art you make alone is only half of the work. This conversation was a perfect fit for this creativity podcast. In this episode, they discuss: The 100 Day Project that changed the direction of her life — and why she credits it for who it proved she could be, not for anything she actually made Obscure Emotions , the 2016 series of small pink figures that gave her language for feelings she couldn't name, and the comments from strangers that turned a private habit into something bigger Her ten-second timeline exercise and what people end up telling a total stranger afterward What she says to the person who tells her "I can't draw," plus her case that honest art matters more than beautiful art Life-size self-portraits, a redwood forest, and the first retreat she ran before she felt anywhere near ready Resources & Links Draw Your Feelings: A Creative Journal to Help Connect with Your Emotions through Art by Rukmini Poddar (Penguin/Ebury) Rukmini on Instagram: @rockinruksi dearruksi.com The 100 Day Project (#The100DayProject)

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  Episode #17

  Can We Please Stop Monetizing Every Hobby?

  Sep 6, 202634 min

  You bake the cake, finish the sweater, frame the painting — and someone asks when you're going to start selling it. They mean it as a compliment, and it usually is one. But when did, "someone would pay for that" become the main way we tell people their creativity has value? On this art therapy podcast, Emily and Allie get into what that does to the making itself, and why the pressure shows up fastest on the things we love most. Allie explains why she has never sold a single piece of the jewelry she taught herself to solder, and what she says when people are taken aback by that. Emily tells a story about being asked to illustrate a children's book, and hearing herself say something about her own art she has genuinely never said before — the second money entered the conversation. They talk about how to tell the difference between wanting to build something and feeling like you should, why touring musicians are the right test case, and what it might mean that in Denmark the community center art classes sell out every week with no one expecting to get good. This is an art therapy and creativity podcast, and this episode is a reminder to our creative community that not everything you make has to become something. In this episode, they discuss: Why "you should sell that" lands as pressure even when it's meant as praise — and what to say instead The creative practice Allie protects by never selling it, and how she responds when people push What Emily heard herself say about her own artwork the moment a paid project was on the table How to tell whether you actually want to monetize something, using the touring musician test Whether the pressure to make hobbies productive is a US-specific problem — and what a culture of hobbies looks like instead A yes/no/maybe experiment on selling, resting, and keeping one practice completely private Resources & Links: Absalon - Community art center in Copenhagen (great for a visit if you're traveling!) Creative retreats - the retreat Allie mentioned in Greece Allie's metal smithing class Beacon Gem Tack - our favorite for bedazzling! Make sure to subscribe so you don’t miss an episode, follow us on ⁠Instagram⁠ or visit our ⁠website⁠ to learn more. If you'd like to be a guest on the show, you can apply ⁠here.⁠ You can find Allie on ⁠Instagram⁠ or her ⁠website⁠ , and you can find Emily on ⁠Instagram⁠ or her ⁠website⁠ to learn more about all they do and stay connected You can find Austin on ⁠Instagram⁠ for all of your podcasting and musical needs If you enjoyed this episode, follow along and share it with someone who could use a little more creativity in their life. And this is your reminder that you don't have to be an artist to benefit from creativity. You're welcome, as you are, in this creative community.

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