Kimberlee Koym-Murteira

Yeah, I've been a member for, I think, about three years now.

Yeah, so you had done an artist statement workshop with the Black Cube in Denver, I think.

Oh yeah, yep.

Yeah, yeah.

So a friend of mine had told me about that and it was free.

And so I did that a couple of years before joining the membership.

and yeah I remember that I yeah that at that time I was teaching a senior project class and you know I used your exercise with the students and so I remembered you from that and I had been in another art group and when that had I'd kind of maxed out like what I was getting out of

That group and I was looking for something else and I happened to see you having the master class kind of thing.

I listened to it and I went ahead and joined right away.

Oh, cool.

Yeah, so I love working in the studio and I love always making things and I so self-conscious and insecure about my writing.

And so I knew that, that I needed that support and I wanted to win more grants.

And I had had the experience of, you know, when, when getting support, like I was successful.

And so I just wanted to find more ways to do that on an ongoing basis.

Yeah.

And feeling more supported, right?

Which makes you more confident in what you're applying for.

So I've applied for grants that I wasn't going for before.

Something that I wasn't even considering before the group, but because so many people were doing it and I was like, yeah, I'll try it.

I had a huge learning curve there.