TrISH SIMONE WILD
Welcome to 2024 and my updated website.
Trish Simone Wild (aka TS Wild) is the name I now using. I have been known by many names over the years. I was young at first and running away from my biological last name as a result of a shitty father, taking on the names of various men I have legally married over the years (and still care for very much). A couple of them offered to let me keep the last names as long as I'd liked which I did for a while. Some still offer theirs to use if I'd like. After some experimenting for a few years, I've opted for a name created from my own evolution: Trish Simone Wild Trish - my long used nickname: from my mom-given name of Trisha Lee Simone - the feminine French/Italian spelling of my maternal grandmother's family name of Simon - meaning ‘to hearken' Wild (from my dearly departed and fabulous friend Jade Wild, who helped me to rewild). I have written many different bios over the years, trying to sum myself up in a few lines, in a manner acceptable to whatever world I was mostly living in at the time. I've since decided all of those experiences are a part me. From ages 15 until 21, I most often worked in the hospitality industry as a server, cocktail server or bartender. I had also been an apprentice to several photographers in high school, taken some over-priced design coursework, and worked at Kinkos (now FedEx Office) so I had built up some useful skills. To keep my spirit and bank account going, I also began working freelance as a photojournalist, artist, designer, creative alchemist, etc. in 2005 and have since continued this work in various ways over the last 20 years. During my 20s, I was in the military and government sectors, putting my skills to use in the Visual Communications and Public Affairs fields - while also trying to earn my degrees. I managed to do so, finally - earning my Bachelor of Arts in Visual Art & Art Education (K-12 License) from Fayetteville State University in North Carolina in 2012. I left the military/government sector completely in 2011. As I turned 31, I became a MOM, while also earning my Master of Fine Arts in Visual Studies from Pacific Northwest of Art in 2015. I taught K-12 arts education and integrated arts/STEAM while living in North Carolina from 2012-2018. These years also gave me many opportunities to venture further into photojournalism and event photography. During the years of 2011-2019, I had focused heavily in the visual and theatre arts as a exhibiting artist, artist-in-residence, consultant, etc. I had heard "the call" from Source as early as 2015, and ignored it for a while at that time. Instead, I attended the Veteran Women Igniting the Spirit of Entrepreneurship, and focused on veteran artist projects. I launched Breaking Rag: A Veteran, Family & Community Art Project in 2016, operating until September 2018, when I lost my home, studio, practice, and mind for a little while to Hurricane Florence. I moved to WA State in December 2018, and and shifted focus to work in academia and non-profit, combining several part-time adjunct professor and non-profit positions in a full time paycheck. Answering Source's call, I began attending Seattle University's School for Theology and Ministry (STM) in 2019, studying counseling and spirituality. Divinely-inspired, I was able to use my gifts and skills for the school's Religica and related platforms. As the COVID-19 Pandemic ripped these already precarious fields to shreds from 2020-2022, my health also further declined. I left the academic and non-profit work and took a sabbatical. I returned to the design world in 2022, blessed now with a fully remote day job that allows me use my leadership skills in design management, and focus on my healing. As the creative alchemist that I am, I've never had much interest in being only "one" thing. Since 2021, I've operate a quirky, witchy, artsy mercantile, Sassy Bones Emporium - selling relics, treasures, gently-used magic, whatever I'd like - and art - both my own and others. It's allowed me to make my own rules as an art-trepreneur. If you were to ask my mom, she'd tell you I've always been a writer more than anything. That may be true and I intend to bring my art into my writing. As to my older works, I've decided to honor that time by compiling virtual retrospectives for my past visual work, and a monograph of my veteran-related series of works. These links can be seen at the top of this site. This work is on-going. I still enjoy photographing events and live music when the opportunity arises. Moving into 2024 - I am a writer now, and incorporating wellness and sex ed coaching into my work, through written information, videos, social media, and eventually 1:1 coaching. Welcome to 2024. |
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