About Alexis
Alexis M. Bierman is a visual thinker and life-long learner. She’s spent decades of her adult life working as a professional communicator: among teams in museums, sharing and creating lessons for teachers and students, as well as designing social media and digital marketing campaigns for authors and small businesses.
My Beautiful Brain
Training in Multiple Industries with similar skills
I’ve had many careers and worn many hats over my years in the professional world, but I’ve always succeeded most where my brain could be challenged simultaneously with a “big picture view” and at the same time being charged to focus in on details.
Big-Picture Thinking with details in mind
I do this “interpretive planning” work with museums and cultural institutions, entrepreneurs, and even when I’m working with bits of crockery and tile in my mixed media mosaics.
I’ve come to trust my brain
and I hope you will too.
My Art Journey
I’ve always loved art. As a kid I wanted to have messy hands and be creating fun stuff. Yet, somewhere along the way, I got it in my head that I wasn’t good enough to be a full-time professional, aka REAL artist, so it wasn’t worth my pursuit of art.
But I still loved art–looking at it, making it, being around it. But with grad school, marriage, and then kids, there was so rarely time for art. I was able to do some nursery and kid-themed paintings when I had a chance and I kept my art supplies in the midst of moves with the hope and intention to make more art in the future.
Zorra Creative Fox Studio
In 2011, things started to change. I got divorced and spent my limited budget to sign up for ZOETICA, a nine-month creative workshop for moms looking to rediscover creative energies. Creative Fox is a “spirit name” that I generated during one of the workshop’s exercises. This was a time of rebirth for me in many ways–it began my focused effort to make time for creativity in my life on a more regular basis.
In 2016, I was introduced to mosaics! I was still struggling with that ex-husband on several issues, had stress related to being a parent, and just the stress of daily life. Cutting tile and working with tile soothed my soul in a way that painting never did! I was hooked.
I am forever grateful to Besty Gruy who taught me the basics and helped get me hooked on mosaics.
