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Happy Saturday, creator! Hope you’ve enjoyed the Indigenous-inspired art this month.
The Good News Bee is flying by again this week with some awesome club updates and sneak peeks! 🍯 We’ll dive right into those first before buzzing through the prompts.
Grab a snack, then scroll on for the goodies! 🍪
🐝 Updates on the club from the Good News Bee
👩🏻💻 Homepage refresh
We’re working on revamping our website top to bottom! Our homepage is freshly finished and pretty polished with new content, graphics, and sections. (We especially enjoyed designing the “Club Showrunner” card in the BTS section.)
Our about page is now also live (where it was just a blank page before… whoops. Just goes to show there’s still a human behind the curtain!).
✍️ Our commissions are open!
By “our” commissions, we actually mean Mel’s (”our” founder and the only human behind Joyful).
With poetry, flash fiction, and short stories starting at 3, 5, and 10 Euros respectively, a 100% human-crafted piece of art from a small creative biz makes a great gift for a loved one.
We’ve already landed 2 commissions in just 1 month of launching (🤩), including a custom-designed digital short story. The other one’s a secret, but I will say it’ll be hand-written!
🤝 3 new partnership programs loading…
Art works better together — that’s a big part of our club ethos.
As we work to build The Clubhouse, we’re thinking ahead about how we might deepen our connections with artists and orgs who share our vision. Here’s a sneak peek at what we’re thinking on the partnerships front!
Indie artist promos: Do you have a small creative shop, service, or commissions page you’d like to share? We’re hoping to open some slots in this very newsletter soon! (And we’d love to hear your feedback about how it should work. Hit reply to any email to share your thoughts!
Affiliate partners: We’re finalizing a revamp of our existing affiliate partnership program, making it easier and quicker than ever to team up with us and earn some cash by promoting each other’s stuff.
Newsletter sponsors: We’re constantly following museums, arts programs, and grant opportunities. Everything shared by Joyful takes great care, time, and effort to craft. We’d love to partner with some of the organizations we’re most inspired by to improve and continue sharing our educational content.
Stay tuned on our updated partnerships program — we hope to roll it out sometime in the new year.
Look out for the Good News Bee to fly by at least once more before we close the doors on 2025. But for now, let’s get stuck into some prompts!
🌈 ICYMI: Recap of this week’s prompts
As we close out November, prepare for December, and brace ourselves for the new year, Joyful’s mixing it up a little with our prompts!
The first couple weeks of December, we’ll include some of our own favorite artists, songs, shows, and more. For the last 2 weeks, we’ll celebrate Filipino creatives for Overseas Filipino Month. And we’ll also learn about Kwanzaa, the holiday celebrating the West African diaspora.
🎧 Soundful Sunday (November 23) — Delight in the musically realistic sounds of Sakha nature-singing by Snow Raven
🎨 Maker Monday (November 24) — A closer look at traditional Inuit tattoos
🖼️ Artistic Tuesday (November 25) — Exploring Painted Bluff, home to 100+ ancient Indigenous cave paintings, in what’s now Alabama
🌿 Worldly Wednesday (November 26) — Ahupua'a, Indigenous Hawai’ian* water terraces: an ingenious water management method
📘 Lit Thursday (November 27) — Listen to Grant Bulltail tell the Crow story of the Little People who hold up the earth
🕌 Framework Friday (November 28) — The story of Dr. Arthur Parker, Seneca historian who rescued ~50 Indigenous artifacts from a New York Capitol fire in 1911 while wielding the tomahawk passed down through his family for generations
🎭 Spectacle Saturday (November 29) — Our mystery prompt from last week! “The Water Song” by Chenoa Egawa & Alex Turtle
*Small correction: In last week’s newsletter, we said we’d share a prompt on Inca water terraces. While those also exist, we got inspired by the Hawai’ian version while researching, as well as the modern efforts to save them.
🗓️ Coming right up! A peek at this week’s prompts
Creativity prompts go live every morning, Dublin time.
🎧 Soundful Sunday (November 30) — Soulful Indigenous youth rap: “Spirit” by Ix̱six̱án, Ax̱ Ḵwáan
🎨 Maker Monday (December 1) — Imagine a world without art in this video and postgraduate project by Nikki A
🖼️ Artistic Tuesday (December 2) — Reconnect with your inner child’s favorite creative hobbies (Lego, playdough, crayons, etc.) on National Build Joy Day
🌿 Worldly Wednesday (December 3) — Ever seen a parrot waxcap mushroom? This colorful fungus looks like something from an alien realm
📘 Lit Thursday (December 4) — Amateur crime detectives, but make them retirees: Thursday Murder Club, a Joyful Creators Club favorite book series
🕌 Framework Friday (December 5) — Last month, we spotted field art of Ozzy Osborne from an airplane. Exploring this stunning tribute to the Prince of Darkness
🎭 Spectacle Saturday (December 6) — Your new favorite Christmas episode: parodying “Glee” on Community
💝 Your affirmation for the weekend
When I experience creative burnout, I can take space to care for myself until I’m ready to create again.
Like anything, too much creativity can be a bad thing. Especially if your art is part of your professional work.
If you’re feeling burned out on your art, it’s okay to do something else for a bit.
Enjoy a different hobby. Go for a walk. Grab a bite to eat at your favorite cafe. Take a hot shower or bubble bath. Whatever feels comfy for you!
That’s what this whole season is supposed to be about, so indulge in a bit of pampering. You deserve it.
🎁 Goodies for club members
That’s a wrap on our Indigenous Heritage Month prompts. I’m so excited to keep working on the Joyful prompts, website, and Clubhouse throughout December.
What are you making this holiday season? I’d love to hear all about it.
Until next weekend — stay crafty!
Mel
Founder, Joyful Creators Club
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Joyful Creators Club aims to be an ethical, equitable, and accessible business. We take care to spotlight creations from artists who are marginalized, and we don’t allow generative AI creations anywhere in our community — 100% human-crafted only, always. For more, please read our club’s ethos.