\u201cNever allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2013Mark Twain<\/a><\/p>\n Self-worth is often hard to come by. We can be tremendously accomplished and still feel inadequate in some way. Too frequently, we look to outside sources for validation, which can lead us to feel even further from our best selves. The truth is, you are enough. There is no logic in comparing yourself to others. There is no sense in feeling like your hard-earned wins don\u2019t matter. I know these things are easy to say and hard to practice, but there is value in adjusting that inner<\/p>\n Kevin O\u2019Brien<\/a> joined us in 2021 from Brisbane, Australia where he works as an architect. At the time, Australia was in lockdown due to high COVID infection rate and sluggish vaccination rates. Even so, he had multiple projects going on, including collaborative and installation projects with visual and performing artists. To hear more from Kevin O\u2019Brien, listen to the complete interview<\/a>.<\/p>\n David Anaya Maya<\/a> spoke with us recently about his show,\u00a0Providentia<\/em><\/a>, their first NYC solo show, which ran until August 4 at High Noon Gallery. They also chatted about what it\u2019s like to be in Paris, where they are currently located, as the Olympics are going on. While exciting to welcome international crowds and be surrounded by a party atmosphere, they allow as how Paris is not historically a city of sports. To learn more about the exhibition and hear more about being square in the midst of the Olympics from an artist\u2019s point of view, listen to the complete interview<\/a>.<\/p>\n A few words to keep in your pocket<\/strong><\/p>\n Kindness begins with ourselves.<\/p>\n Outings<\/strong><\/p>\n Join me at SVA FLATIRON PROJECT SPACE 133\/141 West 21st Street, ground floor, New York, NY for Sarah Stolar: Selected Works From the Grief Club<\/a><\/p>\n Interviews are available on iTunes<\/a> as podcasts, and for Android, please click here<\/a>. All weekly essay pieces are here<\/a> in a shareable format. The full archive of interviews is here<\/a>.<\/p>\n More books to read<\/strong><\/p>\n Ours is a community of readers. Tell us what books you\u2019re reading now by adding your titles to our reading list here<\/a>. Praxis member Pauline Holmes is reading\u00a010 Minutes and 38 Seconds in This Strange World<\/em><\/a> by Elif Shafak.<\/p>\n Opportunities<\/strong><\/p>\n The Golden Foundation Residency<\/a> offers professional artists a unique opportunity to explore a wide range of materials and technologies in a 21st-century facility in central New York. To learn more, visit the website<\/a>. Deadline for applications is\u00a0August 28<\/strong>.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cNever allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.\u201d \u2013Mark Twain Self-worth is often hard to come by. We can be tremendously accomplished and still feel inadequate in some way. Too frequently, we look to outside sources for validation, which can lead us to feel even further from our best […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":20433,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-29633","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-art-career","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29633"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29634,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29633\/revisions\/29634"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Brainard Carey is an author, artist and educator. He is the director of Praxis Center for Aesthetics and is currently faculty at the School of Visual Arts in NYC. He has written seven books for artists, including Making it in the Art World<\/a>. His seventh book, The Problems in the Art World: An Artist\u2019s A-Z Action Guide<\/a>, is available now.\u00a0<\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"