This week’s guest is Jencey Keeton, Founder at Sweet Tooth Hotel. Sweet Tooth Hotel is an immersive art gallery in Dallas, Texas. It is a platform for local artists and also special installations with outside artists. On the day of recording, Jencey announced the they were opening a new location in downtown which was very exciting! Find a link below if you’re in Dallas and get to the Sweet Tooth Hotel!

What makes Sweet Tooth Hotel “immersive”? Guests can touch everything in the gallery. The art is accessible to everyone and local artists are celebrated there, even before they are big on the coasts. Jencey’s mom was an art teacher so she learned to appreciate and create art from her childhood. She is often involved in making the art at Sweet Tooth Hotel from cutting fabric and sewing to painting.

Before Sweet Tooth Hotel, Jencey was a working musician and then a digital marketer. Her marketing career took her to Fossil and then into commercial real estate. It happens that in learning about real estate and conscious capitalism, she saw an opportunity to rent a space in a construction office to create the first iteration of Sweet Tooth Hotel with her husband Cole. They drained their savings account and took a chance!

Sweet Tooth Hotel was a massive hit and they are expanding! The most recent exhibition was called Intangible which was an all-female exhibit of fiber art. What is fiber art? Think fabrics like crochet, pom poms and more! Also, Jencey offers some great advice to artists looking to get their work displayed.

We talked about what Jencey is doing outside of Sweet Tooth Hotel too delving into balance, health and music. She was in a touring folk pop band for 3 years. Then, her and her husband Cole formed French 75 and composed, recorded and performed together in collaboration with DJ Left/Right. Jencey is ready for her next music pursuit.

You’ll have to listen to learn more about all of this!

Note from Rabiah (Host): It is SO cool to see people you know grow and do amazing things. Jencey and I worked together tangentially at Fossil and what struck with me about her was that she was one of the few people that was really kind who wasn’t in my direct department but she was also clearly talented and creative. I always enjoyed our interactions and have been following her path on LinkedIn for a while. It was really a pleasure to finally get to talk. I can’t wait to visit Sweet Tooth Hotel sometime! Check out the link below exclusively for More Than Work listeners.

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Find Jencey Sweet Tooth Hotel: https://www.sweettoothhotel.com

Tickets to Sweet Tooth Hotel: https://www.showclix.com/event/rewind-watters-creek/tag/morethanwork

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sweettoothhotel/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sweettoothhotel/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/sweettoothhotel/

TikTok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMLA9ex75/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKbwHBsZGCEMlXp5r4GYwkg

French 75: https://www.facebook.com/French75music

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Mentioned in this episode:

Built By Bender https://builtbybender.com/

Refinery 29 https://www.refinery29.com/

Trademark Property https://trademarkproperty.com/

Kendra Scott https://www.kendrascott.com/

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