Taking Part in Challenges To Boost Your Creativity with Anna Campbell (podcast episode)
Participating in creative challenges can be a great way to develop your skills and connect with other creatives. This week on the podcast I talk with Anna Campbell, founder of the very successful Ring a Month challenge. She talks about how participating in challenges has helped her and others in the community. I hope this episode inspires you to join or create your own challenge!
EP029: taking Part in Challenges To Boost Your Creativity with Anna Campbell
Participating in creative challenges can be a great way to develop your skills and connect with other creatives. This week on the podcast I talk with Anna Campbell, founder of the very successful Ring a Month challenge. She talks about how participating in challenges has helped her and others in the community. I hope this episode inspires you to join or create your own challenge!
EPISODE RECAP
A little about what Anna has been up to with her challenges (1:44)
Tell us about why you started the Ring A Month challenge (2:56)
Have you made more jewellery after starting this challenge? (5:36)
Had you done a challenge before this? (6:41)
Are there hashtags or ways to connect with the other people participating? (9:08)
Why have challenges been good for you? (9:54)
How do you find challenges to take part in? (14:21)
What kind of personality types do best with challenges? (15:46)
What is the future for the Ring A Month challenge? (18:57)
Where can people go to get involved? (22:01
ABOUT ANNA
Anna started her career as a lecturer in Psychology. She started crafting as a hobby and was quickly hooked on jewellery making, particularly with silver clay. In 2014 she gave up her job in a university to work with jewellery full time. In 2017 she set up Jewellery School Scotland and she teaches jewellery workshops in Edinburgh. Anna started the Ring a Month challenge for jewellers in December 2018. Since then hundreds of jewellers have made and shared thousands of rings as part of the challenge.
Photo: rings made as part of the Ring a Month challenge
RESOURCES
Anna Campbell’s 100 days project 2020
Anna completed a 100 day project, making a silver piece with a different texture every day for 100 days. The pieces are being assembled into one statement neckpiece
CHALLENGES FOR JEWELLERS
Find challenges for jewellers on Facebook by searching for jewellery challenge or using similar terms. Here are a few we know of!
Set a cabochon stone a month Facebook group challenge
52 earrings challenge Make a pair of earrings a week and share on Instagram with the hashtag #52earringschallenge
If you see any others do share them with us so we can add them here! contact@jewellersacademy.com
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With love
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