Community Spotlight: Amy Linville (she/her)

Welcome to Community Spotlight, featuring members of our Creative Mornings Community! We are so grateful to our community, and love learning more about our members’ creative life and what makes them tick.

This month’s Spotlight Feature is Amy Linville (she/her)...

Where are you from? If not Columbus, how did you land here?
Cleveland suburb. A scholarship to Capital University.

Growing up, what was your family like? Any siblings?
Idyllic on the outside but a story of anxious attachment on the inside.

How do you spend your days? What’s your area of expertise? 
Between two Victorian homes in the Brewery district. 1. Treatment room for esthetics and craniosacral therapy, 2. Bookkeeping office for a real estate/property management company.

What’s the first creative thing you remember making?
Plugging the drain on the basement floor to make a swimming pool for my dolls.

What’s a tool—creative or otherwise—you can’t live without?
My soaking bathtub.

What's a creative pursuit you'd love to try but haven't yet?
A Blue Walk art vacation in Europe. Sketching backstage at a Fashion Show.

What's your favorite way to spend a Saturday morning?
Having the day off and enjoying coffee. I’m sensitive and can't get too revved up on the days I have my hands on people.

What's one thing you're secretly good at?
Pumpkin carving.

What's your favorite life lesson or piece of advice?
Keep showing up. Improvements will come in spite of yourself.

Where do you go when you need inspiration?
Thrift stores.

Why do you choose to be part of the Creative Mornings Columbus community? 
It felt so great to be invited and the community is warm and welcoming.

What’s the most unexpected thing you’ve learned at a Creative Mornings event?
That introverts can be great speakers.

Tell us about a meaningful connection you’ve made through Creative Mornings?
Countless small connections during small group time.

Anything else you want to share with the Creative Mornings Columbus community?
My current favorite public spaces are “The Link” Pedestrian Bridge in Dublin and Quarry Trails Park.