Author: Ingrid Murray

  • ICAD Prep 2026

    ICAD Prep 2026

    ICAD — the daily Index Card a Day project hosted by Tammy Garcia of Daisy Yellow — kicks off June 1. This will be my return after a year off to have my daughter, and I’ve been preparing cards.

  • Create Like a Child

    Create Like a Child

    Over these last six months, I have finished exactly one art journal spread, and for good reason: we welcomed our first child to the world.

  • Change, art, and hope

    Change, art, and hope

    “it’s been a very strange thing to stare down a huge life change. I know that I will be a different person on the other side, but have no way of truly preparing for it or knowing what it will look like until I live it. I think about that…

  • Transitions

    Transitions

    I’ve had a lot of big transitions in the past few years, from moving to Germany to leaving my job to pregnancy to rehoming a beloved pet. What I’ve found is that that liminal space in the middle of change, where the past and the future butt up against each…

  • Life and Death and Art

    Life and Death and Art

    “When I can get out of my own way, and get out of my own head, the muse is waiting. I just have to show up before I can talk myself out of it or convince myself it has to be perfect before I even begin. All this to say: the…