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THURSDAY, APRIL 29, 2021 • THE BULLETIN
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Artist Kym Myck gets creative on multiple fronts
BY DAVID JASPER
The Bulletin
After 2020 art festivals were can-
celed amid COVID-19 dangers, “I
started looking at any way that
I could start earning income,
so I’ve literally got about four
side hustles, businesses, in
the works,” Redmond artist
Kym Myck said.
T
hough visual art is her main profes-
sion, Redmond artist Kym Myck, this
week’s Central Oregon Creative Art-
ists Relief Effort featured artist, finds that
having a variety of income streams “seems
to be necessary these days.”
Myck describes herself as a multi-modal
artist on her website, her creative outlets in-
cluding photography, graphic design, digital
and analog art. But when COVID-19 struck,
Myck lost out on income from festivals,
“which all that dried up last year, of course,”
she said.
“I had just literally signed up with one of
the art shows with the Dry Canyon Arts As-
sociation, and almost immediately, it was
canceled because everything was so precar-
ious at that time, and unknown, that they
just started canceling everything,” Myck
said. “By early May, it was real clear that
we weren’t going to be able to do anything
all summer, and at that point, people were
Submitted photo
pushing for September. And now here we
are a year later.”
Myck didn’t just pivot, a word that be-
came too familiar to us all last year: She had
to get creative on multiple fronts.
“I started looking at any way that I could
start earning income, so I’ve literally got
about four side hustles, businesses, in the
works,” she said. “They’re all varied, from
artwork and crafting stuff, doing every-
thing. Mugs, T-shirts, jewelry-stamping, do-
ing my own artwork.”
Myck is also a reiki and aromatherapy
practitioner as well as a wellness coach. She
makes spices. She also aims
to start teaching art, having
recently signed up to be a substitute art
teacher with the High Desert Education
Service District, she said.
“I’m literally all over the page,” she said.
Still, “visual art is my main thing — at this
point.”
During the past year, “A lot of the down-
time was spent trying to figure out how to
survive with no income. That was probably
the most stressful aspect. It was kind of like,
‘Now what? And how do you get your bills
paid?’ … I did not create for several months.
I’m just actually starting to get back
into the flow of things. In the last year, I’ve
done maybe six or seven pieces, which is —
that’s normally something I’d do in a week.”
CO CAREs grant money will help her
purchase art supplies so she can continue to
create, with an eye on the summer festival
season ahead, Myck said.
“At this point, it would help as far as …
getting equipment to set up for the festivals,
things like that. Materials to make things for
creating. Those materials are pretty spendy.”
David Jasper: 541-383-0349, djasper@bendbulletin.com
find what’s inside
listen: New music from Bend’s
Pete Kartsounes, p.3
read: A Novel Idea, p.7
staff
drink: Hazy ales, p.10
about this magazine
editor Jody Lawrence-Turner | 541-383-0308, jlawrence-turner@bendbulletin.com
events specialist Makenzie Whittle | 541-383-0304, mwhittle@bendbulletin.com
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