Maggie Hinders

Hi, it's great to be here.

Well, I jumped at the chance to do the assessment and the navigator because it was a new kind of way of,

approaching being a member.

I'll backtrack a little bit and say mostly what I found I was

Using was the community aspect of it.

I was very into like the crit sessions and the over 55 group, which was, you know, a lot about like various people's problems.

In addition to like the actual technical stuff was the real pleasure of being connected to other artists in a deeper way than I've been able to do just in my community in real life.

Right.

Yeah, that's mainly what I did.

And I had started through going through the curriculum and I frankly just got overwhelmed.

I'm like, I don't think I was quite ready for all of that information because I had just retired from my job and started painting much more frequently than I had been.

And I really didn't have my feet on the ground yet.

So, but when I saw the navigator, I thought, I think I'm ready for this now.

And I looked at it and it immediately made sense to me.

Right.

And what the initial assessment for the navigator did was it put all the ducks in a row.

It just made it like, okay, here's where you are.

And this is what will be helpful for you.

And so start here.

And it was just the clearest path, like the name says, but it was just the clearest path to the information I really needed.