Your Creative Push

Cassie Stephens teaches art at an elementary school in Nashville, Tennessee.  She spends a lot of her free time sewing wacky outfits to accompany art lessons, thrift shopping and just making stuff. She is also the creator and host of the podcast Everyday Art Room, a podcast that offers a glimpse into the world of elementary art and offers advice, stories and ideas to improve your teaching. Full shownotes: http://yourcreativepush.com/cassiestephens In this episode, Cassie discusses: -Going from a comfortable identity as the “weird artsy kid” in high school to an uncomfortable self-conscious lack of identity in college. -The difference in mentality between her fine art classes and her art education classes and classmates. -The biggest lie she was ever told and how it stayed with her for years. -How she put so much effort into teaching art that she let go of creating for herself for seven years. -The ways in which she got back to her personal creative side. -The ways she tries to align her DIY creative side wit