Do you remember the moment you realized what you wanted to do professionally? Was it magic? Was it scary? We wanted to hear from some of the most talented artists and creatives in the community and so we asked them to tell us the story of the moment when they knew they were going to pursue a creative career path.

Vitor Rego

Music has always been a part of my life, so much that I can’t even remember my earliest memories without it. My parents introduced me to the drums when I was just 4-years-old, Read more>>

Gloria Gaddis

I have always known that I wanted to be an artist. But, the turning point for me was when I took a trip to Italy and saw these magnificent artworks and they spoke to me. Read more>>

Andrea Monier

I believe we are all creators and hold the capacity to create our wildest imaginations and visions, however, society and our programming at times tells us it’s not possible, that we need to adhere to the social constructs, not draw outside the lines and to ignore the soul call within. Read more>>

Allison Merriweather

Art was my way of connecting from a young age. I can be a bit of a loner or outsider by nature, but creating things no one else could opened me up to the world. Read more>>

Bennie Taylor

Well this career path was never on my list of life choices. I actually enjoyed watching others follow their dreams on tv and film, because I never thought I had that particular skill set. Read more>>

Amarise Lindauer

I’ve always been artistically inclined, but never really saw it as a viable way to make a living. I’m a musician, a seamstress, a baker, and also enjoy an art form called quilling (art made with strips of paper). Read more>>

W.Ellington Felton

I’ve always had a creative streak, thanks in part to being born into a family of musicians and ministers. Performance and public speaking have always felt like second nature to me. Read more>>

Ben Carlee

As a kid, I was really into video game music, which might’ve seemed a bit unusual back then, but honestly, the early 90s had some amazing games with awesome soundtracks, so who can blame me? Read more>>

Faellow

Growing up my father was very passionate about music. So I fell in love with the arts early on in my child hood. Read more>>

Ms. T with the Tea

I have always been interested in social media for a while, but I was nervous about the idea of being in the spotlight t to pursue a career on social media with the fear that no one would enjoy my content. Read more>>

Lisa Willits

Art was not my original career choice but I think it was always there in the background, waiting for me to re-discover it. Growing up with siblings who were much older than me, I spent a lot of time by myself as a kid, mostly drawing, but also painting and making all sorts of crafty things. Read more>>

Marlaina Faye

When I was young I started painting as a hobby. It never really occurred to me that i could make a living doing something that brought me so much joy. Read more>>

Malisa Suchanya

My family is made up of artists. My mom and dad were interior designers and my brother had a heavy gravitation to drawing robots as a kid. Read more>>

Kathy Biehl

As long as I can remember, being creative has been a normal part of living, almost as integral as breathing. It wasn’t till my early 20s,though, that circumstances opened for me to see I could pursue it professionally. Read more>>

Linda Turner

I knew by the end of high school that it was a toss up between cultural anthropology and visual arts. I have always loved both people and creating. Read more>>

Tyler Ineson

I have always been interested in television and film. Growing up in Buffalo, New York the snows would pile 6 foot high and fall for more month of the year than not. Read more>>

Renae Gornick

My entire childhood I made such silly, strange videos with my friend’s camera. We made dramatic soap opera-like skits, recreated MTV’s TRL, we made a spoof of MTV’s Sweet 16 show, Read more>>

Tuan Huynh

I first knew I wanted to pursue a creative path professionally when I felt my art can resonate with people. Read more>>

Gioele Viola

My name is Gioele Viola, and I’m 29 years old. I’m an actor, married, and a proud father of nearly two-year-old twins. My passion for acting began at the age of 9 when I joined the theater group at my school. Read more>>

Thomas Johnson II

I always loved drawing and creating, but was always kept a job when I got older and have begun my creation of Raxon Universal Dominion www.raxondominion.com Read more>>

Bryan Christopher

I knew I wanted to be a music creator the moment I wrote my first song. It’s been 22 years and I haven’t stopped. Read more>>

Mike Anderson

13 years old. Read more>>

Angels Miller

I first knew I wanted to be a part of the artistic community when I was a little girl. Read more>>

Tachena Winterhalter

I have always been an artist. It was always something that was a part of me. As a child I wasn’t allowed to express how I really felt. Read more>>

Shankh Lahiri

I’m so blessed to be born into a family of music and culture, so I was very naturally drawn into this musical journey. Read more>>

David Larks

I was six years old and my mom was doing an oil painting of a marina with boats docked and pylons with seagulls perched on them. Read more>>

Caroline Doctorow

I began to play guitar and sing old traditional folk ballads at about age eight. My father taught me the first few chords that I ever learned. Read more>>

Kemble Walters

I think the moment it really clicked for me was when my parents took the whole family to go watch Color Me Bad. I was living in Jakarta, Indonesia at the time and so we didn’t get to experience much live pop/rock music so this was a treat! Read more>>

C.L. Furlough Jr.

“I knew I wanted to pursue the arts and a creative lifestyle professionally when I found myself receiving a standing ovation during my first-ever lead role in a play or production. Read more>>

JC Bravo

I new I wanted to become an artist after I met my Muse, she became source of inspiration and my wife. I met her in college and my love for her led me to a life of art. Read more>>

Samantha Sim

I have always wanted to be an artist since I was a kid. Even at the tender age of 3, I found it impossible to part with a pencil. I persistently pleaded with my parents to enroll me in art classes and eagerly awaited each new sketchbook. Read more>>

Becktoria

Growing up in England, my upbringing heavily involved the arts, where I studied a variety of instruments including piano, flute, violin, recorder, and drums. Read more>>

Jacob Andrew

Probably around the age of 7 or 8. I was always doing creative work. Whether I was playing the piano and teaching myself how to play songs to playing with legos and painting all the time. Read more>>

Johnny Luu

In high school I had a passion for art. I would have rather be in art or drama class than any other. When I graduated I took a year off to figure out what I wanted to do. Read more>>

8Mile Slik

The first time I heard Run DMC. The swag the confidence the attention to detail to the culture I was ready after hearing them Read more>>