Helen Klebesadel is a passionate painter and arts educator with watercolor as her medium of choice. In this blog she reflects on her own and other artists paths to becoming artists, sharing the struggles, and strategies to address challenges many artists find along the way. The blog focuses on creativity, empowerment, and aims to encourage broad participation in the arts, understanding them part of the the way we define our cultural values. Topics such as what, how, and who we value as artists will be touched on.