We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Lyanne Hernandez. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Lyanne below.
Lyanne, thanks for taking the time to share your stories with us today When did you first know you wanted to pursue a creative/artistic path professionally?
When I was in elementary school, I remember always being interested in the artistic projects that any other. I was the only student in the Morning art class in elementary school and I loved exploring the comic book store. Finishing the book before I even got home, to the point that my grandma would say, ” why buy a book for you, if youre going to finish it in 5 minutes? ” and from there I decided I wanted to make my OWN comic book, which began my relationship with art.
Great, appreciate you sharing that with us. Before we ask you to share more of your insights, can you take a moment to introduce yourself and how you got to where you are today to our readers.
As far as being interested in artistic expression , I would say since I was a child. But putting my art into the public view was fairly recent in the year of 2020. Before the pandemic, I would consider myself a “Bedroom Artist”, since my art never left the bedroom. I initially challenged myself to post my art work to social media during the Inktober Art Challenge during Covid. And since then, I’ve been able to combine my love for art and the skills I have from my day job. I’ve gone from the girl that had extreme social anxiety to showcase their drawings to the girl who now is a assistant Curator to The Goddess Mercado and Queer Mercado , a Resident Artist at the Hive Gallery and I would want to say a emerging artist , that is gaining a little bit of confidence.
Any resources you can share with us that might be helpful to other creatives?
The resources I wish I knew about early is as simple as community. Any success I’ve had at all, anything I can point to the fuel of any success I’ve ever had has been through community. There’s been so many artist that have transcended being my friends to my family and being able to have the space to continually grow, but to have the space to be creative and myself is absolutely priceless and life changing. Very thankful to my Art tribe friends, and mentor , Maps.la .
Can you tell us about a time you’ve had to pivot?
Being a First Gen Latina, I’ve always been instilled with the ideology within my upbringing that I needed to assimilate to the idea of what an American is and choose a career that is fruitful. Hence, giving up my artistic dream and pursue a medical career instead. To my family, Art was not a fruitful career and that’s something I internally struggle with to break the generational idea , because there’s is nothing more fruitful , more fufilling, or more priceless than be able to express oneself.
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