Every October, artists all over the world take on a drawing challenge, creating one ink drawing a day for the entire month of October. #Inktober was started by Jake Parker in 2009, where he challenged the visual world to up their visual game and create 31 drawings in 31 days during the month of October. I think it’s […]
This past year, I experienced a dream come true and conquered one of my greatest fears all in a single heart-stopping endeavor. My TEDx video: Mastering the HeART of Communication was released to the world this last week! Exposing my victories and my struggles with learning wasn’t easy. Preparing my TEDx Talkvalidated how important visuals are for my […]
Labor Day marks a time of new beginnings. All great reasons to celebrate! The Labor Day holiday pays tribute to the contributions and achievements of American workers. Labor Day weekend pays reverence to families and friends being together away from the daily grind. In Arizona, Labor Day marks the slow change in temperature that welcomes the fall. Labor Day seems […]
Who remembers the pound sign? No one anymore. Hashtags have taken the world by storm, inspiring trends and revolutionary ideas. At first glance, hashtags are just a symbol to apply to your social media status to connect others to your post. Sometimes they’re something silly like #NationalNachosDay, but sometimes they are meant to create community or […]
Creative /kre’adiv/ I am creative (the noun), a person who is creative in my professional context. I am creative (the adjective), a word that describes my imagination and the originality of my ideas. I produce imaginative, original and artistic work, thereby, I am creative. Perfection /pərˈfekSH(ə)n/ I am also a self-inflicted perfectionist. I refuse to […]
A Third culture kid (TCK) is a term used to refer to children raised in a culture other than their parents’ (or the culture of the country given on the child’s passport, where they are legally considered native) for a significant part of their early development years. After two days of learning about the American School of Bombay, today, […]
My day began just as it did yesterday. Greeted with a cheerful good morning by the lovely Pradnya (pictured), then boarding the school bus that delivered all of the presenters safely to the ASB Elementary Campus for the last day of @ASBPluggedIn. The word safety is significant here, because the streets of the Bandura Kurla Complex (BKC) are energetic and […]
Dream, Learn, Serve. That is the Mission of the American School of Bombay (ASB) and why Frame the Message Ink is here coloring outside of the lines for the next 5 days. It’s why I traveled over 8,068 miles from Phoenix, Arizona, endured 24 exhausting hours in airports and airplanes…. To Mumbai, India. To support the learning of 740+ students and 250+ […]
Picture This! In 2017, Frame the Message Ink will be coloring outside the lines and spanning the globe. To countries far and wide, there are sure to be many amazing adventures! Can you picture it? In February 2017, we’ll begin our year of excursions by traveling to Mumbai, India to work with students, teachers and community members at The American […]
I was that kid. Fingers smudged by leaky pens, nose marked by the glorious smelling of Mr. Sketch markers, and art supplies littering virtually every work space I occupied. As a student, I was coined the “Sharpie Queen” and succeeded in school primarily because of my audio-visual prowess, not my academic skill. I have no […]
