September Check-In: Grow Your Art Challenge

It's time again for a check in. Some real-deal accountability for our 2014 Grow Your Art Challenge.

Summer was nice. The sunshine brought a lovely bit of relaxation, but the leaves are turning friends. That means our year-long project is nearly 75% done. That means just 3 more months until we gather to celebrate our accomplishments (even our incomplete ones).

I don't say all of this to scare you. I say all of this to scare me.

I'll fill you in on my progress below, but let's just say I need this accountability at least as much as any of you. This is that time in the project where things seem a bit impossible. Rocky is down and bloody on the mat. Things are looking bleak.

But then ...

But then the crowd chants, slow at first and then louder. Raucous. Roaring. 'Rocky! Rocky!'

Then hope rises. 

I'm looking for the hope of the crowd today friends. Maybe you are too. We can do this thing. I'm not licked yet. 

Please check in below by answering these four questions;

1. What have you made for the Challenge since last check-in (which was actually June)?
2. Is there something you can show us?
3. What is the biggest challenge you are facing now?
4. How can we help you move forward?

Grow Your Art Check In: April

As we move towards Spring, the Grow Your Art Challenge has entered its second quarter.

A quick recap for those asking 'what on earth is the Grow Your Art Challenge?'. Some of us set out together to pursue personal art projects during 2014. We set goals we felt were realistic and attainable, and we vowed to keep each other posted on our progress (be it inspiring or less-than). As a group, we would hold each other accountable.

And that is why we are gathered here today. To keep one another in check. To ask, 'How is your project going'.

Please post your progress below, addressing these four questions;

1. What have you made for the Challenge since last month?
2. Is there something you can show us?
3. What is the biggest challenge you are facing now?
4. How can we help you move forward?

Can I Still Sign Up?

Yes indeed! If you would like to join the Grow Your Art Challenge, make something this year and party with us when it's all over, just post your intentions below. You'll find a more detailed primer on the challenge here.