We recently connected with Trinity Ansah and have shared our conversation below.

Alright, Trinity thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. We’d love to hear about the things you feel your parents did right and how those things have impacted your career and life.

The one person who I will always shoutout is my mother. She is my Rockstar. The middle schools in my area weren’t overly impressive, so my mother took it upon herself to home school my sister and I along with a few other kids. In tandem with our academic curricular, she encouraged us express ourselves artistically. She gave us the tools we needed to explore our interests. This led us to create all sorts of things from plays, fashion shows, a homeschool band, short films, and dance choreography. The group of us thrived creatively because of her influence. I find in moments of doubt or frustration, I pull from those days of pure artist freedom. It inspires me to keep creating. To this day, my mom is still one of my biggest inspirations and supporters.

As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?

My name is Trinity Ansah. I was born and raised in Decatur, Georgia and graduated from Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) with an animation degree concentrating in Storytelling and concept development with two minors in storyboarding and sequential art. I describe myself as a storyteller first regardless of the medium. As a kid I was always making up stories and telling them to anyone with a willing ear. Throughout the years my storytelling evolved from writing short stories, choreographing a ballet, creating a play with my sister, before settling on animation. The wonderful thing about film and animation is that I don’t have to give up any one medium. I can use all of my skills and knowledge acquired over the year within the stories I create. In all honesty, my biggest inspiration for choosing animation as my field of study were the cartoons I used to what growing up. They brought me such a sense of peace. They taught children to be mindful of others and to be kind, how to celebrate other’s differences and healthy ways to express our thoughts and emotions.

Many of these cartoons were drawn in an a traditional 2D art style. In the age of digital media, I long to help keep some of the traditional practices alive. The most common medium used in my art is watercolor. It can be seen in the backgrounds and environments of my film “Overcome”. Using traditionally painted backgrounds is just one way to easily merge the gap between tradition and digital art. Through my art I hope to put back into the world the same creative energy I was lucky to receive as a child and hope to inspire the next generation to live life with peace and kindness towards others. I believe that if I am able to touch just one person positively through my art, then I have truly lived up to my purpose.

What do you find most rewarding about being a creative?

One of the most rewarding aspects of being a creative artist is being able to watch the life your art takes once it is released into the world. I love discovering how my art is interpreted and how it relates to others in their own personal lives. Sometimes it can evolve into some completely new depending on the person’s perspective. I think that’s the beauty of art.

How can we best help foster a strong, supportive environment for artists and creatives?

I believe one thing society can do to best support artists and creatives for a thriving creative ecosystem is by helping to shift the culture of art on social media. Art across multiple mediums doesn’t have a very long lifespan on social media. It has become too easy to forget that the videos and images we like have hard-working human beings behind them and not machines.

Social media gives us all an unrealistic expectation on how fast art should be created and digested. We as a collective should strive to create more spaces, events, and platforms, Similar to how museums, galleries, and theaters work. A where artists can showcase their work and where general audiences must slow down and truly take in a piece, not simply double tap and move to the next post.

Society should listen to creatives and respect their artistic timelines. It’s okay to slow down and reflect. I don’t say this to say that art should not be on social media, or the artist cannot post everyday should they choose, but that it should not be the expectation of every creative to work the same way.

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