Jasmine “Jaz” Parks is the one woman show that is Childlike Creative. She initially created the business and brand as a way of coping with the horrors she experienced while being in grad school in July of 2022. Jaz is a multi-medium artist, kaleidescope creative consultant, and home organizer who also curates and focuses on making space function how you need it to and feel how you want it to.

She is very influenced and inspired by children and how they navigate and negotiate life, experimenting and responding to everything. They are candid, honest, bold, and they believe they can do anything and be anything or anyone. They decide to do something, and then they do. She admires their resilience, reliance on intuition, playful experimentation, and simple discovery of what it is like to be a human in the world through questioning and doing.

Childlike Creative is the manifestation of both her personal ethos as an artist and the name of the business and brand she has created. Her various degrees and exploration of academic disciplines mixed with her broad work and life experiences have resulted in an interesting personal and professional approach to creating art. In her visual, digital, and craft art, she often uses combinations of words, textures, color, and shapes to process and work through concepts, thoughts, feelings, and ideas of her inner world as a way to make sense of them and the world around me. Much of her work is inspired by nostalgia and capturing universal human experience through very specific-to-her images, objects, and stories. As a writer and musician, the process of my practice is much more intuitive.

Art gives Jaz a tangible way to connect to herself, others, and the world in a way that transcends language and personhood drawn from her own life’s experiences and observations on culture and life through the lense of pop culture and cultural commentary, and it everything she does across mediums and projects is connected by the throughline that can be summed up in this single statement: Art and community for social good. Childlike Creative’s studio is based out of Knoxville, TN.