Leveling up your creative career with communities
We're excited to be collaborating with Art Club, Art Fight, and Discord!
Join us for a fireside chat with Kat, Rae, Shaun, and Takaia to learn how they started Art Club and Art Fight, their favorite parts of being in communities, how it has helped them in their career, what they learned along the way, and more! You may also submit your questions on Luma to be asked live as well.
📍 Event Location
This event will be taking place on Discord Stages in the Design Buddies Discord community. There will also be a text channel to interact in during the event:
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🐰 About Kat (Art Club)
Katherine-Aria Close is currently an undergraduate student studying at the University of Maryland, College Park, pursuing a dual degree in Graphic Design and Environmental Science and Policy. She aspires to become a UX researcher and designer for an environmentally focused organization and is currently living that experience as (somewhat impromptu) UX Design Lead at Defenders of Wildlife's Center for Conservation Innovation. She also works part time at CreditXpert, Inc. as a UX research contractor. When she is not working officially, she spends a lot of her time helping to organize and manage the online Discord creative community Art Club as its project manager. In her free time, she is a casual gamer and enjoys pursuing her hobbies of art, traveling, horseback riding, and creative writing.
Connect with Kat on LinkedIn and Instagram!
🐰 About Rae (Art Fight)
Rae B loves creating art, but the thing they love the most... is sleep
Connect with Rae on Twitter!
🐰 About Shaun (Art Club)
Shaun Ryken and is a 28 year old Canadian that has focused on all forms of media for around 14 years now. Shaun is built to inspire, empower and encourage world change through digital interactions. Shaun suffers from severe anxiety and use it as a tool to help recycle some of their weird thoughts. The goal is to keep healthy, live life experiences and express it in areas you thought you would never have expressed them in.
Connect with Shaun on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook!
🐰 About Takaia (Art Fight)
Takaia is the owner of Art Fight, and does a lot of management of the volunteer staff and the community, and some of the coding. Takaia's educational background is in computer science. In addition to coding, Takaia likes Art, Dungeons & Dragons, tea, plants, and video games.
Connect with Takaia on Twitter!
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🐰 About Design Buddies
Design Buddies is an inclusive design community aimed to connect and empower designers by providing free resources, events, mentorship, and more.
👋 Visit our website and hop into our community!
🌟 Watch our past events, read our blog, check our shop, support us, and connect with us on Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn for more fun! If you share your takeaways from our event, we will re-share on our socials as well.
See you here, Every Bunny!
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This event in a public Stage Channel is being recorded. By attending the event, by participating in any Q&A, and/or by speaking or performing during the event, you are consenting to audio recording of your voice and/or performance as well as video recording of your username and profile picture -- even if you do not speak and/or perform during the event. You also consent to the copying, creation of derivative works, use, distribution, and publication of the recordings in any postings on social media, public announcements, publications, websites, applications, and other commercial, marketing, or promotional materials produced by or for Discord Inc. without your review or approval, worldwide and in perpetuity.
Please refrain from use of profanity or any obscene language or remarks during this event. As a reminder, Discord’s Community Guidelines apply (in addition to any server-specific rules), and violation of these guidelines, including any form of hate speech or bullying, is prohibited and may result in your removal from the event, the server, or the platform.
🙌 Thank you to the Discord team! #ad