PRESS RELEASE: Showing Up Announces Partnership with Ink Factory Studio
March 6, 2025 (Oconomowoc, WI)—Showing Up LLC is proud to announce its partnership with Ink Factory Studio—a visual note-taking and storytelling company that brings ideas to life through hand-drawn illustrations.
As a part of the partnership, Ink Factory has hand-drawn the gorgeous, insightful illustrations for Lifting Up to visually demonstrate the key concepts around supportive leadership.
After training Ink Factory’s team, Jen knew they were perfect for the job: “I was searching for a way to bring in more human elements...and Ink Factory held the answer. I intentionally gave them no direction on how to create these illustrations. I only emphasized that we needed to bring humanity into this book with hand drawn art that would visually reflect the concepts outlined.”
Above: A sneak peek of one of Ink Factory’s hand-drawn illustrations in Lifting Up. Ink Factory says, “Illustrating Lifting Up meant visually exploring the balance between connection, guidance, and growth.”
The story of how Ink Factory and Showing Up started working together underscores the very purpose of Lifting Up.
“We were introduced to Jen Marr after tragedy struck our company,” says the Ink Factory team, “We lost the life of a beloved team member, Donvon J. Taylor, to a very violent act that to this day remains a mystery. Our team was left in disbelief. We were shocked, traumatized, and saddened. The waves of grief will always be there, but Jen helped us to hold space for our experience and each other. Her vast experience navigating extremely difficult tragedies helped guide us forward.”
Showing Up has loved training Ink Factory’s wonderful team within the past year, and is excited to continue to do so in the future. Ink Factory’s illustrations will be included throughout Lifting Up when the book is published this May!
To learn more about Ink Factory Studio, visit their website here.
Want your own copy of the book? Click here to pre-order Lifting Up and be one of the first to read and see the illustrations when the book is published this May.
Showing Up LLC is a social good company whose mission is to bridge the gap between those who care and those who feel unseen.
Our training tackles the nuanced space of supportive care: teaching the social-relational skills to support one another in the midst of uncertainty and hardship.
“People don’t care what you know until they know that you care.”