Do You Want to Die Not Knowing? One Artist's Leap Into Art as Service and Healing

About this episode

The episode explores Shawn B. Standley's transformative journey into art as a means of healing and community service, prompted by a life-changing question from his wife.

Do You Want to Die Not Knowing? One Artist's Leap Into Art as Service and Healing Have you ever had someone ask you a question that completely changed the direction of your life? In this episode, I talk with commission artist Shawn B. Standley, whose wife asked him exactly that kind of question — and it launched him into a new chapter as a full-time artist dedicated to healing and community service. Shawn's journey is anything but a straight line — from aerospace engineering student to carpen...

People in this episode

Host: Pam Uzzell

Guest: Shawn B. Standley

Topics covered

• art
• healing
• community service
• life change
• personal journey

Keywords

• art
• healing
• community
• life change
• artist
• service
• journey

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