{"id":37556,"date":"2021-01-01T15:24:08","date_gmt":"2021-01-01T23:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?p=37556"},"modified":"2021-01-02T09:13:28","modified_gmt":"2021-01-02T17:13:28","slug":"re-finding-joy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/01\/re-finding-joy\/","title":{"rendered":"re-finding joy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/01\/re-finding-joy\/ashley2021_1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-37557\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-37557\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/ashley2021_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"589\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none;\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/17394179\/height\/26\/theme\/standard-mini\/thumbnail\/no\/direction\/backward\/\" width=\"100%\" height=\"26\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Happy New Year!<\/strong> <em>Hmmm,<\/em> how should we celebrate? &#8230; PLEASE SEE PHOTO ABOVE &#8230; Yep, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashleylongshore.com\/\">Ashley Longshore<\/a> is back on the podcast for the fifth time (!?) and we&#8217;re stepping into this new year with as much optimism as humanly possible. That said, 2020 was rough on all of us &#8211; even the sparkly, go go go Ashley &#8211; so we talked a lot about how slowing down, and having to be truly vulnerable, changed the way we approach both life and art. Listen right up there under Ashley and her cheese <em>{photo by James Letten}<\/em>, or subscribe on <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/podcast\/jealous-curator-art-for-your\/id996338562\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/podcast\/jealous-curator-art-for-your\/id996338562\">Apple Podcasts<\/a> and or <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/2ELjX4nIVWpI3XMNW139WN\">Spotify<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>First up. NATURE! Yes, Ashley has always been a lover of bugs, blossoms and butterflies. Here&#8217;s a little bit of bedazzled proof:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/01\/re-finding-joy\/ashley2021_2b\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-37562\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-37562\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/ashley2021_2B.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"3976\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gorgeous! And yes, that photo midway through is a real luna moth Ashley made friends with in her garden. Insane. Watch Ashley&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/ashleylongshoreart\/\">stories on Instagram<\/a>&#8230; she really does have some &#8220;Mother F&#8217;N Nature with Ashley Longshore&#8221; going on in her backyard! Seriously, I would watch that TV show.<\/p>\n<p>Next, a teeny peek at the really big work she&#8217;s been hoarding the past few months:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/01\/re-finding-joy\/ashley2021_3\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-37559\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-37559\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/ashley2021_3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"1465\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Huge, colorful, full of life. Yep, that sounds about right! Ashley will be releasing all of these new paintings at the end of January so keep an eye on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/ashleylongshoreart\/\">her Instagram feed<\/a> for updates.<\/p>\n<p><em>Ahhh,<\/em> and the clown self-portrait she just said goodbye to:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/01\/re-finding-joy\/ashley2021_4\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-37560\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-37560\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/ashley2021_4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"735\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yep, it&#8217;s hard to say farewell to your favorites. At least she&#8217;s going to a home that will love her very very much.<\/p>\n<p>And finally, Ashley and I both want to wish you a super duper <em><strong>HAPPY NEW YEAR!<\/strong><\/em> May you ride into 2021 exactly like this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/01\/re-finding-joy\/ashley2021_5\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-37561\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-37561\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/ashley2021_5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"572\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Hahaha!<\/em> Now that is how you put some JOY into your life! Thanks so much to Ashley for leading us into the new year with that firm handshake of hers; thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/createmagazine.com\/\">Create Magazine<\/a> <em><b>and<\/b><\/em> their gorgeous new book &#8211; <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B08GLMNJWB\">\u201cThe Complete Smartist Guide\u201d<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; for supporting this episode; and of course, huge thanks to YOU for listening. There will be more art for your ear next weekend.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Other links:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/ashleylongshoreart\/\">Ashley on Instagram<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.saintjosephsartssociety.com\/\">St.Joseph&#8217;s Arts Society, San Francisco<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-news\/news\/san-francisco-saint-josephs-arts-society-new-home-restored-church-11711\/\">Article via ART News re: St.Joseph&#8217;s<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/20\/just-be-wonderful\/\">Petah Coyne on the podcast, Episode No. 186<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/createmagazine.com\/submit-pages\/women-issue-2021\">Create Magazine &#8211; Call for Art, Womxn&#8217;s Issue<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/646473\/how-to-spot-an-artist-by-danielle-krysa\/\">How To Spot An Artist<\/a> {my children&#8217;s book}<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy New Year! Hmmm, how should we celebrate? &#8230; PLEASE SEE PHOTO ABOVE &#8230; Yep, Ashley Longshore is back on the podcast for the fifth time (!?) and we&#8217;re stepping into this new year with as much optimism as humanly possible. That said, 2020 was rough on all of us &#8211; even the sparkly, go [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[766,3,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37556"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37556"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37574,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37556\/revisions\/37574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}