Create Me Free March 2024 Monthly Digest
Asylum art, Georgia O'Keeffe series, 3 artist interviews, two guest posts, thoughts on what Substack is all about and more ...
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And here’s what was shared on Create Me Free in March:
Georgia O’Keeffe Series
I ran a week-long series of daily posts sharing writing about Georgia O’Keeffe’s art and mental health that was originally drafted for my book, The Artist’s Mind, but didn’t make it into the final cut for one reason or another. I am considering running a deep dive into an artist like this every month, with one post in the series free and the others paid.
The series first kicked off with this personal essay and a photo archive roundup:
Then I continued with:
Other Art History
Substack Thoughts
A lot of March was continuing to puzzle through what Substack is all about for me, what my experience here has been like, what I want to offer here moving forward. It has been really helpful to think through these thoughts “out loud” in conversation with others in comments and notes. Here are the posts related to that:
Guest Posts:
Interviews:
Miscellaneous:
What’s True …
I’ve been keeping up with this in daily-ish chats to some extent but haven’t done as many weekly roundups. It might become an every-other-week thing.
Substack Writers You Should Know:
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Happy Easter Kathryn! You've had a busy month!