Finding Your Creative Voice - Presentation Night with Colleen Miniuk

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Join outdoor photographer/author Colleen Miniuk for this inspirational and educational talk on how she transformed from a photographer who liked to take "pretty" pictures into a visual artist who now seeks to make personally meaningful visual expressions from her life experiences. Using stories and insights from her three artist-in-residencies and 500+ days in Acadia National Park, she'll share how you can feed the Wallas model of creativity, tap into conceptual blending, and "steal like an artist" to collect new ideas and connect with the landscape in fresh ways. Learn how to rely less on your external surroundings to provide the creative juice and how to confidently bring your own voice to every subject and scene, no matter where your camera takes you.

Colleen Miniuk is a corporate-America-escapee turned full-time freelance outdoor photographer, author, educator, and motivational speaker from Chandler, AZ. Through her work, she aims to inspire adventures in the Great Outdoors and encourage others to live their most fulfilling life, "the big Life with a capital L," with or without a camera in hand. Her work has graced the pages of publications such as National Geographic, Arizona Highways, AAA Via, On Landscape, National Parks Traveler, and a broad variety of other outlets. She has penned several award-winning books, including Wild in Arizona: Photographing Arizona's Wildflowers; The Current Flows: Water in the Arid West, and Photographing Acadia National Park: The Essential Guide to When, Where, and How (after serving thrice as Acadia's Artist-in-Residence). Her first adventure travel memoir, So Said the River: Life, Loss, and Pie on the Colorado, was published in July 2024. She writes an online photography advice column called "Dear Bubbles." She leads photography workshops (including all-women sessions called Sheography™), teaches classes, and offers one-on-one mentoring. Learn more at http://www.colleenminiuk.com.

The event will be held on Thursday, February 27, 2025 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM. The zoom portal opens at 6 pm and the webinar starts at 6:30.

Colleen also offers an Activity Guide eBook that pairs with her presentation and is available for downloading at www.analemmapress.com for $4.95