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What I Learned About Creativity and Burnout from Interviewing 50 Artists
By Melanie Bikowski — 2021
After nearly a year of dealing with this pandemic, I decided it was time to reach out to my community to discuss the challenges we were all facing. The biggest challenge being burnout.
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