Working her circular saw

Today on Willful, artist Heather Kocsis (@HKocsis) describes: 
• If being a woman who works with blades, rip fences and sawdust ejection chutes still cocks a few eyebrows.
• Pricing her work, and why putting a value on her art gets easier with experience.
• Seeing yourself as a business person.

Learn more about Heather’s study of architecture and the effects of time at HeatherKocsis.com. Her multidimensional wood assemblages are in public, private and corporate collections across North America, including the Sony Centre for the Performing Arts in Toronto and The City Reliquary in Brooklyn, New York.

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Thank you to Greg Garson and The Merchant Taps & Tavern for your tremendous hospitality!

Photo credit: StanSwitalski.com

Creativity and compensation

This week on Willful, I sat down with Andrew Dobson (dobbernationLOVES), the editor in chief of DobberNationLoves.com, a food, luxury travel, arts and entertainment blog now in its 9th year. In episode #3, Andrew talks even more about:

• His efforts to change the culture of free on the internet.
• His favourite example of creativity and compensation coming together. 
• When he has said YES to non-paid work, and why.

Willful is the web series that tracks how artists and creative entrepreneurs work, thrive and survive. We interview one artist a week, then post five three-minute snack films from that interview on YouTube every day. 

Follow us here on our website, or on our Facebook Page and YouTube channel for our entire archive of inspiring interviews.