Marissa Huber shows how to live life your way, with ‘time chunking’

The artist and co-author of ‘The Motherhood of Art’ talks about prioritizing her creativity while working full time and raising a family

Marissa Huber at Alt Summit in March 2020.

Sometimes frustration is the best medicine for change — at least, that was the case for Marissa Huber. In 2015, at 38, the artist got so annoyed with people saying she’d have no time for herself once she became a parent that she “unintentionally built a community of creatives” to talk about it.

That accidental community has blossomed into Carve Out Time for Art, which Marissa runs with Heather Kirtland, a fellow creative she met on Instagram. In April 2020, they published The Motherhood of Art, a beautiful book featuring interviews with 32 creative mothers, including Sonal Nathwani, A’Driane Nieves, Deborah Velasquez, and Amy Tangerine.

Marissa Huber is a painter and surface pattern designer who started taking her art more seriously after her son was born. Heather Kirtland (right), is a Baltimore-based painter. Together, they published The Motherhood of Art to inspire parents and non-parents who want to find more time for their own creative pursuits. (Photographed here at Alt Summit in March 2020)

About Marissa Huber

Now 41, Marissa is a painter and designer whose work has been featured in HGTV, Design Love Fest, the Create! Magazine podcast, and more. In the last two years, Marissa also learned surface pattern design and began licensing patterns, completed several 100-day projects, played Legos a…