First order of business, Secure Work.
How? Craigslist. Snagajob.com. Temp Agencies. Inquiry letters to firms I want to work with. Monster.com. Word of mouth?...
My resume needs updating, to start. I need several resumes.
- Tech Resume
- Creative Resume/Design Resume
Leverage experience as an artist with experience in professional world. Include Creative problem solving. List web sources, websites created...
I'm feeling an intense desire to coalesce, integrating all my various skillsets into some sort of master title. Artist, sure, but what can I show to those that have my money, just haven't given it to me yet?
About a month ago, I worked through a career workshop (DBM). Gave me some good ideas. I've had a shit load of jobs in my life, but only 1, maybe .5 career jobs. Of course, Artists have unusual career paths, unique to the artist. There is no Art, Inc. per se. What is the path of the artist?
- Make work/work a job to support it.
- show work in group shows, cafes, restaurants, on street.
- work a job to continue to support work.
- make more work.
- work harder.
- show work in gallery, get gallery representation.
- make more work.
- work even harder.
- get grants.
- make fancy work.
- teach. (?)
- steal ideas from students.
- make best work of career.
- bigger shows
- make more work.
- Shop old work around for Retrospective.
- make work.
- never retire...
- Death, inevitably.
Right now, I need to get a job. I have tried, somewhat successfully to shop my older drawing around. Unfortunately, sitting on State St selling drawings for $10-20 a piece, gifting my drawings + paintings, etc. has got me very little in the way of progress as a capital-A artist. I look at Erik's site, at Adam's site, at stuff Bob and Will are doing...At what other ex-SFAI'ers are up to and I feel that tinge of "What the fuck are you doing?..." inferiority/fear manifest. It is motivating me, a slight degree of paralysis remains.
And so it goes...
Its nearly the 7th month of 2009...
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