This logo depicts the hands sending loving energy, a visual representation of what the Reiki practitioner does in a session.
Upcoming Events page utilizing purple and pink colors and type from the logo, a nod to the brand without having the logo displayed everywhere.
Contact page utilizing purple and pink colors and type from the logo, a nod to the brand without having the logo displayed everywhere.
This logo depicts the hands sending loving energy, a visual representation of what the Reiki practitioner does in a session.
Initial graphic on home page designed to portray the feeling of success.
This half of the "About Me" section is designed to portray "straight to it," "no frills" attitude of Marie's style of coaching.
The color yellow is used throughout the website design to grab the viewers attention, and suggest feelings of happiness and joy.
Initial graphic on home page designed to portray the feeling of success.
Deuxième Vie Creative is an environmental non profit committed to creative reuse. Challenging our flexibility and looking for a different ways to engage with local creatives, largely in response to Covid-19, I wanted to generate a space of fun family time and creative possibility. This idea began by designing a weekly virtual craft hour in collaboration with my fellow Board Members. Our ideas came to life as I begin staging each video presentation, designing social media visuals, coordinating outreach posting, as well as personally hosting many of the virtual craft hours.
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These craft hours were free to the public, and generated community engagement and some donations for our organization. Another example of how creative enrichment is fun and fruitful.
Social media post series, advertising family centered Craft from Home Workshop, creating toilet paper roll animals.
Social media post series, advertising family centered Craft from Home Workshop, creating toilet paper roll animals.
Social media post series, advertising family centered Craft from Home Workshop, creating collage paper animals and objects.
Social media post series, advertising family centered Craft from Home Workshop, creating toilet paper roll animals.
Click image above to view more social media posts.
Community Events
Before Covid-19, my position as Event Coordinator carried a much more hands on approach to managing volunteers and logistics to create successful collaborative events with organizations that shared similar values of reducing waste and creative reuse. These are the times I enjoy the most, presenting simple interactive creative reuse projects to children and their families. Then seeing, in real time, the deep conversations and curiosities that stem from this artistic inspiration.
Fightingville Fresh Market, Lafayette, Louisiana Leading participants in creating monster portraits out of recycled cardboard, as well as a ghost key chain out of donated yarn. Creative reuse projects keep these materials out of the landfill.
Fightingville Fresh Market, Lafayette, Louisiana Leading participants in creating monster portraits out of recycled cardboard, as well as a ghost key chain out of donated yarn. Creative reuse projects keep these materials out of the landfill.
Responding to opportunities that arise and showing up with a positive attitude can generate so many possibilities for future collaborations. This was the first time that we participated with the Atelier de la Nature. It was a last minute invitation, and we showed up with information about creative reuse. I handed out everything I had, genuinely engaged with the experience and people. This first event led to the ongoing relationship between Deuxième Vie Creative and the Atelier de la Nature.
Fightingville Fresh Market, Lafayette, Louisiana Leading participants in creating monster portraits out of recycled cardboard, as well as a ghost key chain out of donated yarn. Creative reuse projects keep these materials out of the landfill.
Click the image above to view the gallery of event photos.
Virtual Workshops
This stop motion piece was designed and executed by myself and my fellow board member, Kim Culotta, as an introduction for virtual workshops being sold online. Deuxième Vie Creative is a environmental non profit committed to creative reuse. We used donated materials, things people would have otherwise thrown away, to form the organization's logo and depict creative reuse in action.
Make your own tin can flowers at the Maker's Faire, a collaborative event hosted by the Public Library and the Lafayette Children's Museum. (2019)
"The Hue of Moods"
This interactive presentation was in partnership with the Acadiana Center for the Arts "The Healthy Artist"series. The purpose of "The Healthy Artist" was to provide support, education and connection for creatives in Lafayette, Louisiana.
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"Life is a train of moods like a string of beads and as we pass through them they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue, and each shows only what lies in its focus."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do you choose which mood works for you or
do you suddenly find yourself “in it”?
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Do you find yourself in a habit of frantic productivity?
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What mood do you find yourself in when you are
your most creative self?
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Would you like to explore ways of shifting your mood
in order to access your creativity within?
Sometimes happiness is a feeling.
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Sometimes it’s a decision.
Marie Kimball is a Creative (Re)Designer based in Lafayette. As an accredited ontological coach, she supports creative women to engage in expanding self-awareness and choice in life. She received her BFA from Loyola University New Orleans with an emphasis on Graphic Design. A mural artist who enjoys the challenges of repurposed creation and expanding her concept of what is possible, both creatively and in life.
Join Marie for this interactive presentation on the hue of moods; exploring mood spaces and unleashing the creativity within you." (December2020)
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This workshop invited participants to "try on" the moods that we commonly find ourselves in, in order to more easily recognize them in the future. We engaged in conversations that generated learning around our observations about the moods exercise as well as how moods can support or hinder our creativity and practice.
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These are some of the slides designed and used in the "Hue of Moods" presentation and exploration.
