Maker & Moxie presents Brand Your Passion Live: Makers on Marketing 🎨📣

Join us for an evening of connection and conversation with artists Pepper Raccoon and Emma Smith (Steer Illustrations) as we talk all about marketing as makers and creatives.

While you're here, grab a new brand photo to help brand your passion at Sarah Jean Creative's pop-up headshot station!

PLUS, there'll be giveaways, nibbles, drinks, and a general great time to be had, alongside current friends and new creative pals.

This panel discussion will be a live recording for the Brand Your Passion podcast to celebrate the launch of the Brand Your Passion Collective, an online community for artists and makers who want to craft a creatively fulfilling, community-building, financially stable art business, with your fellow creatives by your side.

Our Speakers

Pepper Raccoon is a New Zealand artist, a creative powerhouse, a maker of magic. She designs her own artwork and merch in studio, with an emphasis on accessible pricing and sustainable processes. Bringing her love of nature, internet culture, and esoteric vibes to the table, she's known for her attention to linework, intricate detail, and just a touch of magic. With eight years in business selling her products around the world via her online store, she has shown and sold work at the NZ Art Show, Zealandia Eco-Sanctuary, her own solo shows, and a myriad of events across the motu, as well as providing creative services to authors, hackers, and other interesting clients!

Hi I’m Emma! I’m a Wellington based artist.
I work for a super fun & creative Wellington business called Iko Iko. Slowly over the years I’ve grown skills through lots of trial, error, & hot glue gun burns.. to now being a some what full time artist who gets to be apart of lots of exciting projects from art markets, painted murals to large scale creative installations around the beautiful city of Pōneke.