Loveis Wise
Loveis always adored art but she was poor and her family, worried that art would never make her money, encouraged her to be a doctor or a lawyer. Then, one day in the Smithsonian, Loveis came up SOB, SOB by Kerry James Marshall. It was a painting of a black girl, like her. It was the first time she saw someone like her in art and in that moment Loveis knew that she was here to make art.
Loveis graduated high school and went on to study art in college. Despite feeling like an imposter, she received her first commissioned gig with Refinery 29 in her junior year. Before she’d even graduated, halfway through her senior year, Loveis became the second black woman in the history of The New Yorker Magazine to design its cover.
Today Loveis has more work than time. Her illustrations have appeared in The New Yorker Magazine, The New York Times, Buzzfeed, NPR, and TED to name a few. She’s only one year out of college but she’s already an in-demand full-time artist who found her way to prosperity doing what she loves.
Some things we talk about…
- how seeing a painting that looked like her changed her entire life and put her on the artist’s path
- feeling like an imposter and doing it anyway
- using art to navigate her way out of childhood trauma and depression
- how to speak your dreams into existence and create the life you long for
“I was teaching myself to not let fear take a hold of my life because if you act out of fear, it just constricts you. I’m going to let this fear go and I’m just going to do it and do what makes me happy.”
“When you set an intention, when you use words and speak life into certain things, you’re letting the universe know where you want to go. You’re saying, ‘This is what I want.'”
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