Tiana's Article in Pointe Magazine: https://pointemagazine.com/dancing-with-adhd/

Chattanooga Ballet: https://www.chaballet.org/

Learn more about host Sarah Gise in this interview style article on Canvas Rebel! This one delves into coaching style, living in the "gray area", finding a career you didn't know existed, and an exploration of empathy: https://canvasrebel.com/meet-sarah-gise/

Episode 18 guest bio:

Tiana Ozolins was born in Antananarivo, Madagascar and grew up in Southwest Virginia. She began dancing at the Center of Dance under Carol Crawford-Smith, a former dancer with Dance Theater of Harlem. She continued with Southwest Virginia Ballet, dancing in their junior and senior pre-professional company. Under Pedro Szalay’s direction, she participated in community outreach for local elementary schoolers. Throughout her pre-professional training, she attended intensives at American Ballet Theater, Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet, and Cincinnati Ballet. In 2017, she graduated and went on to work towards a BA in Dance with a minor in professional writing at Goucher College. Through Dancers of Color Coalition on campus, she choreographed a five minute work on five dancers. She performed in Jessica Lang’s Prayers and Durante Verzola’s Symphony Dramatique. During her undergraduate education, she studied dance abroad in Paris, France, taking movement workshops with Nathalie Pubellier and Heidi Weiss. After graduating, she danced with Milwaukee Ballet II and Rochester City Ballet as an apprentice. In 2023, she joined Chattanooga Ballet as a company artist and got to perform works by Silas Farley, My’Kal Stromile, and Dwight Rhoden, to name a few. She is now entering her second season with Chattanooga Ballet.

Chattanooga Ballet: https://www.chaballet.org/

Tiana's Article in Pointe Magazine: https://pointemagazine.com/dancing-with-adhd/

Learn more about host Sarah Gise in this interview style article on Canvas Rebel! This one delves into coaching style, living in the "gray area", finding a career you didn't know existed, and an exploration of empathy: https://canvasrebel.com/meet-sarah-gise/

Flynn Hannon bio:

Flynn is a Chicago-based Graphic Designer, Tour Manager and Music Manager. His graphic design experience includes logos, branding, music merchandise, banners, print media and social media content. In terms of music, he most recently toured with Palehound and is now focusing on the careers of burgeoning musicians in Chicago and across the country. When not freelancing in one form or another, Flynn is indulging in a variety of creative hobbies, including woodworking, sewing, gardening, DIY home renovations and pottery.

For more information and to explore Flynn's work, visit his website at www.flynnhannon.com. You can also email him at flynnhannon@gmail.com or flynn@anomalyartist.com for inquiries regarding graphic design and tour management.

About Kyla:

Kyla is a Toronto based, New Orleans bred Visual Artist with a passion for painting, intuitively portraying emotions and mindsets through her work. Struggling with ADHD and Mental Health, Kyla uses these as a tool to create her compositions. As her thoughts move a mile a minute, so does her paintbrush. Use of hyper-detail, layering, and hidden imagery within her work tricks the eye into multiple perspectives, leading each and every viewer to see something different depending on how they look at it. Ultimately, Kyla hopes to inspire neurodivergent individuals to utilize their disabilities as positive and unique traits, rather than as setbacks in life.

Kyla received her BFA in Visual Art from York University in 2018 and officially launched her art business, Kyla Yager Artwork, in January 2020. She has been drawing and painting since early childhood, leading to a consistent art practice for over 20 years.

You can find her work in online publications such as Art Habens, Beyond Words, and The Button Eye Review. View her work in-person at the Riverdale Gallery in Toronto and at Fly Right Galaxy Gift and Studio in New Orleans. If interested in murals, commissions, collaborations, workshops, or live painting, please email Kyla at Artby.KylaY@gmail.com.

🗣️ Quotes from Kyla Yager

"The best thing you can do as an ADHD person is just do what you are most passionate about every day, because then you'll never get bored."

"My process is so freaking fun. I just love making what I make. When I finish it, it's just because I've run out of room on the canvas."

"The biggest detriment that you can do to a creative professional career is putting in some work and then stopping because you feel like it's not working."

"I want to be a famous artist, not for the vanity of fame and fortune, but because I want to start a movement and make an impact on the fine art world."

"Collaboration over competition all the way."

For more information and to explore Kyla's art, visit her website at www.kylayagerartwork.com. Follow her on social media to stay updated on her latest projects and exhibitions.