In this month’s Artist Spotlight, multi-disciplinary artist JenMarie Landig joins me to talk about her unique journey with art and how she successfully weaves together her various talents and passions in her business. Like many interior designers I work with, JenMarie has multiple creative interests that she wants to pursue, and rather than force herself to compartmentalize or choose just one, she has embraced what she calls “full spectrum living.” We discuss what it has been like for both of us to show up as our full selves in life and business.
The Design Coven will be doing a virtual Mindful Movement workshop with JenMarie on August 11 to help us explore the connection between our experiences, our emotions, and our bodies. This workshop is inclusive of all levels and abilities. If you want to join us, become a Design Coven member at designcoven.com/join.
About JenMarie
JenMarie Landig, born in Orange, California, currently lives and works in Southern California where she roams from Los Angeles to San Diego and several cities in between.
Landig has a multi-disciplinary artistic practice grounded in photography, writing, movement, performance, and community. Critical to her practice is a focus on style and design through moments of play and laughter, gut-checks and stillness, connection and curiosity. She tells stories using her face, her body, the collective body, and the built environment. These elements inform the lived and inherited histories underscoring her work. Additionally, her practice considers the intersection of visual planes and light in space.
Landig’s training in dance began at a young age, and she began mindfulness training later as an adult, with various teachers and institutions, including: Afro Flow Yoga, Amor de Díos in Spain, Deborah Eden Tull, Fit & Bendy Anatomy Lab, La Tania, Linda Vega, Mizuho Sato, Quenia Ribero, Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute, Tania Santiago, and UC San Francisco Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction.
Landig’s practice also builds on her 20-year career in the private sector and international, philanthropic, and social justice nonprofits. She has held a number of roles that moved between social silos and institutional structures. Landig’s formal education includes a BA in Business Administration from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley and a Masters in Global Affairs from New York University. She has also worked at the United Nations and outside of the U.S. Her experiences as a traveler both around the world map, and in her own inner world, guide her practice and inform her manifold world view.
Landig is an emerging artist and has received a grant from Center for Cultural Innovation. Her work will be included in the solo exhibition Trust in My Frame at the Collateral Collective (COCO) in San Diego, CA (July 2023). She has also collaborated with the Paul McCobb Museum (Los Angeles, CA) and various Californian artists. Visit www.jenmarielandig.com to learn more about the artist and her practice.
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