Imagine (Sneha Shrestha): Street Art, Authenticity, and Connecting Savings to Creative Freedom
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Imagine (Sneha Shrestha) is an artist, educator and social entrepreneur from Kathmandu, Nepal. She established Nepal’s first Children’s Art Museum and worked at Artists for Humanity. Imagine recently graduated from Harvard Graduate School of Education with a Master’s degree in Education.
Sneha is also known as IMAGINE in the art world and has established herself as Nepali street artist meshing the Nepali alphabet and the Boston graffiti scene. Imagine has redefined the Nepali alphabet and given it a new identity through graffiti. Being the first to mesh American Graffiti with Nepali Alphabets, she has shown her work in several exhibitions, commissioned works and public walls around the world including Boston, San Francisco, Bali, Istanbul, Geneva and Copenhagen.
On today’s episode, Imagine joins me to talk about her art and her entrepreneurial journey including managing her money as an artist and creative entrepreneur. We talk about being real, what savings opens up for your creativity, and what success actually looks like.
Also mentioned in today’s episode:
Imagine’s background 1:10
Learning fast and failing fast for success 8:17
Perfectionism and why it’s holding you back 20:13
How street art is different than gallery art 26:24
What Imagine has found most useful when managing her money as an artist 32:04
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Links:
https://www.instagram.com/imagine876/