• Time: 6:00-8:30pm

  • Location: Pinecone Studio (3 Cranberry Drive, Brunswick, ME 04011) 

  • Group size: 10 - 20  (Note: must have at least 5 participants to hold these programs)

Pinecone Studio invites you to join our creative event series, C.H.A.T.S. (Creative Help Active Thinking Sessions)

This, monthly “Don’t miss event”, will introduce you to creative thinkers developing the business of their passion throughout Maine. Our goal is to support, educate and develop the business of your passion.

You will hear about the behind the scenes creative industry of food, art, business, nature and much more. Come and listen to how ideas come to life. Pinecone Studio will bring stories based on a variety of creative topics that share the process of working within a creative industry. This is an exciting time for creative thinkers to collaborate and find ways to share their story.

Previous CHATS speakers:

“ALONG THE WAY”

VALERIE UPHAM

Instagram: @uphamdesign

Website: uphamdesign.com

Well, I’m living the dream. My 40 year old dream. I am the owner and founder of Pinecone Studio here in Brunswick, Maine. Pinecone Studio is a network to share ideas; a place to invite creative opportunities from the community and develop solutions for a changing world. Oh, and have fun while doing it. If you don’t love what you do, do something else.

It’s difficult to maintain our passions when everyday responsibilities demand so much of our time. It comes down to time management. It’s important to understand that the health of the body and mind is made better with the chance to express yourself.

That’s what my journey has been about — just getting to a place where creative minds could come together and grow. As noted above in my high school yearbook under Ambition: “… own my own art studio”. This is my dream.

Join me and learn what it took for me to find the road that led me to this point in my 63 years of life. I’ll share the influences, the process, the “better” choices I should have made, as well as the trials and joys that have shaped me as I reached for my creative goals.

“THE LIFTING OF VEILS”

The Story of One Man’s Glimpses Into the World Where Architecture, Art and Crustaceans Are Revealed Over Time To Be Just Parts of One Very Interesting Life

TOM BRUDZINSKI

Instagram: @lobstartstudios

Website: lobstart.com

Tom Brudzinski is an Orr's Island Visual Storyteller. He was trained as an architect. His professional career covers 45+ years of unique professional experiences in a wide variety of aspects of the built and graphic environment.

Twenty-six of these years were spent with The Rouse Company whose projects included the creation & implementation of America's premier "new town," Columbia MD and "retail marketplaces" like Faneuil Hall Marketplace, & Harborplace. His direct responsibilities included: architectural design, retail development/design, community development/planning/design, design management, graphic designs, entitlements and governmental processing, story telling, placemaking, and ideating.

At this point in his career, Tom has two focuses, TOMe, LLC a design advisory consultancy that helps clients give focus to the development of project concepts that are remarkable, substantive, iconic, authentic, adaptable, sustainable & tell the right story. The other is Lobstart Studios, where he creates and sells art (fine art & poster forms) that help tell a story. Tom is very interested in lobsters and much of his work is dedicated that helping tell THEIR stories.

Tom has been traveling to Maine for over 40 years and moved here permanently with his wife in early 2006.

Bio Modified from Lobstart.com