We recently connected with Sheana Green and have shared our conversation below.

Sheana, looking forward to hearing all of your stories today. Do you wish you had waited to pursue your creative career or do you wish you had started sooner?

Of course, I could have majored in fine arts instead of getting my BA in sociology. If I knew that I was naturally talented in sculpture my life would have been totally different. But, I know everything happens for a reason and the challenges and lessons I have overcome and learned wouldn’t have been the same as a fine art major.

Sheana, love having you share your insights with us. Before we ask you more questions, maybe you can take a moment to introduce yourself to our readers who might have missed our earlier conversations?

I delved into ceramics when I took my first sculpting class with Lynn Forbes in San Diego around 2014. She told me I was great on my first day of class so I took the compliment and ran with it because she was an amazing sculptor. Before that I wouldn’t have considered my self an artist. Now, I call myself a ceramic artist more specifically a functional ceramic artist. My pieces are intended to serve a purpose, functional, spiritual, and artistic. My first creations were Africa-shaped smudge bowls and incense holders. My second sculpting class lead me to create life-size portrait bust that functioned as a smoking pipe or as my Jamaicans would call it a chillum. I would like to eventually place my focus on how to bring the black spiritual experience into tiles. But, now I am manifesting an idea I have had for a long time but didn’t have the energy to start and finish. I am super excited about, but I don’t want to talk about until people are able to see it. You sometimes have to protect your ideas so you won’t be subject to judgment, which can halt the creation process. Let them judge it in real life.

What can society do to ensure an environment that’s helpful to artists and creatives?

Society should practice patience with artist, we are not machines. We put our mind body and soul into the pieces we create. Some pieces can take what seems like a lifetime. Be patient with us as we try to ground our visions into reality.

What do you think is the goal or mission that drives your creative journey?

My goal is to uphold my connection to my physical and spiritual roots and have that represented in the home. Archaeologist will continue to excavate and examine the earth and if the society is every buried, I would like my pieces to be dug up and prove how amazing and beautiful my people are.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.iamsheagreen.com/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamsheagreen

Image Credits
Personal Photo Image Credit goes to: Brandon “November” Smith