WEEK 6
This week we have another one of my talented students, Elloise Mae Foster, as a guest teacher!
Elloise is an Australian artist and designer based in London. Elloise’s work often explores social justice themes through murals, street art, illustration and motion graphics. She loves creating sassy typography with a deeper social message and believes that creative work is instrumental to achieving social progress. Her clients include Xtinction Rebellion, Digit and Flybuys!
This week's assignment is inspired by her important passion project, Budget Bae, a lettering series focusing on financial advice for women. Elloise launched this project during the very first session of Passion to Paid in 2017, and it inspired me to talk more openly about money because not talking about it wasn't helping anyone (including myself!).
Oftentimes we think of creativity and money as mutually exclusive, as if the pursuit of one diminishes the other somehow. But that simply isn't true! In fact, I now believe money is a tool for creative freedom and autonomy. Money isn't everything, but it's also not something that can be ignored.
When we all learn about money (how to make it, how to save it, how to grow it, etc), we all win, so I hope this week's prompt gets you thinking and sharing what you know. Regardless of where you're at in your money journey, I promise that whatever you share will be helpful to someone.
From Elloise:
I launched my passion project Budget Bae after it was reported that the fastest growing demographic experiencing homelessness in Australia (my home country) was women over 55. This prompted me to explore how women could secure their financial futures in the face of widespread financial inequality.
What I found was already well-known: On average women have less in the bank, earn less at work, take breaks to care for family, and are more likely to be in insecure work. For women of color, women with disabilities, and trans women, these statistics were dramatically worse.
It was clear women were contributing to a system that was letting them down. So, I used Budget Bae to explore big and small ways women can control their financial futures, while tackling the structural inequalities against them. So this week is all about financial advice! No advice is too big or too small.
Your assignment: Letter a piece of financial advice you’ve found helpful in your own life!
Don’t forget to use the hashtags #HOMwork & #HOMwork2021 & tag @elloisemae and @homsweethom when you post your work, too! We’ll be sharing our favorites in our Stories all week :)
x Elloise & Lauren
P.S. If you’d like to learn more from Elloise Mae, follow her on Behance or check out her Teachable page, and use code: HOMWORK21 for a sweet 25% discount!
