Advance Your Art: From Artist To Creative Entrepreneur

MEET STACIE TAMAKI She learned origami as a young child first with her mom from a book her mom had purchased and from her maternal grandma. Her grandma was the person who taught her how to fold the classic paper crane. Though she made them from time to time it would be years before she would discover both her ability and passion for folding miniature models. In her childhood and adolescence, she became a versatile artist in multiple mediums including pencil, pen and ink, oils, and watercolors. She enrolled in a 2-year advertising art program as soon as she graduated from high school. While she loved the curriculum (color & design, volume design, layout, typography, reproduction lettering, art history, etc.) she found the environment too creatively stifling and dropped out over spring break of her second year, less than three months before graduating. After leaving art behind she spent the next 9 years working in retail where she learned sales, customer service, inventory control, visual merchandising, bui