Creative Self-Confidence: Artist LISA DIANE WEDGEWORTH

Welcome and thank you for joining us! Each episode we discuss a creative approach to life’s challenges. Today, we talk to acclaimed visual artist Lisa Diane Wedgworth about being an “outsider artist,” overcoming perfectionism and self-judgment, developing creative self-confidence and defining success for yourself.

Lisa is an LA-based artist whose work takes form as painting, performance and video art. Her work has been exhibited in Los Angeles, Scotland and Paris; She teaches at Los Angeles City College and Glendale Community College and is the recipient of the Georgia Fee Artist Residency in Paris and the 2020 COLA Individual Artist Fellowship.

She produced "Conversations About Abstraction" to share the voices of abstract artists historically excluded from the Western canon and she is the Executive Director of Arts at Blue Roof, an artist-run non-profit organization in South LA offering an artist residency, mentorship and stipend to three underrepresented women artists per year.

Interviewed by podcast creator and host, Dr. Katherine Boutry