Artists and creatives face innumerable challenges given that their career path often doesn’t come with a playbook, a steady paycheck or any form of safety net. It’s definitely not easy and so we asked a few of the artists and creatives we admire to talk to us about why they chose to pursue an artistic or creative career.

Pat Kanji | Producer

As a kid I used to be very into athletics and all of a sudden in highschool my genetics caught up to me. In my teens and I started having issues with my Ehlers Danlos Syndrome
Chronic pain dislocating joints from time to time made it easy for me to gravitate towards my guitar in my room. I also was getting in trouble a lot and the only things I had to entertain myself with was a guitar and endless amounts of cd’s I bought form a record store down the street. Read more>> 

Evan Rudman

My whole life I’ve always had a special connection to music. It always spoke to me in a way that not many other things did. I wanted to explore this more and become more connected to it. So I decided to learn an instrument. Read more>>

Natalia Garcia-Lee

Pursuing an artistic career as an artist is an obvious and necessary thing to do. The desire to create something already exist in an artist so being an artist isn’t an actual choice. Having a career is a choice, and that becomes something that an artist navigates just like everyone else. Read more>>