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NEW: Friday conversation about parenting and caregiving, Friday June 6, 12-1 pm ET (GMT-4)
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session #1: planning
june 4

Recording link here and passcode: GWtR*g51

Slides are here.

The prompt for next week:

Strategic Planning for Individual Artists (Workbook p. 11-18)

1) Brainstorm: What do you want personally, artistically, and professionally in the next two years?
personal = everything that doesn’t have to do with working
artistic = your actual art making process: time space collaborators skills projects
professional = how your art is supported and how it goes out in the world

 + Dream bigger than you think you ought to. + Don’t censor.
 + Don’t shrink the goals to make them easier to accomplish.
 + Eliminate any “shoulds.”
 + If you can put numbers on it: “16 hours per week in the studio” is a goal. “More time for my art” is a hope.

Session #2: Money
june 11

Recording Link here. Passcode: XNr8D#%2

Slides are here.

Two prompts for next week:

  + Notice the flows and rhythms of your attention, particularly the high level focus we bring to our artistic practice.
When does that attention show up in your week and for how long?
How do you use that attention?
What, if anything, lays the groundwork for it (sleep, rituals, meditation)?
What, if anything, gets in the way?

  + Track your time (Workbook p. 57-64).
Be specific. Break it down.
No week is “normal.” Don’t worry about it, just do it.

Session #3: Time design
June 18

Recording link here
Passcode: 2xJ+v1I=

Time Design slides

Undistracted: Making Art in a Time of Digital Interruption. A compendium of artist strategies and tools.

Not Doing It Alone: Artists on hiring, outsourcing, work trades, and volunteers.

PROMPT FOR NEXT WEEK: by yourself or with a partner, do the interview in the Workbook p. 25-32

  + When and how did you decide to be an artist?
  + Describe an early artistic experience that inspired you.
  + Are there any teachers or mentors who were formative for you? How?
  + Name three artists whose work you admire. What is it about their work and process that you love?
  + Describe your process for a specific work. Where did the idea or inspiration originate? How exactly did you work on it? What is your refining or editing process?
 + What is the most meaningful project you’ve ever created?
  + What is the most meaningful connection with an audience/public you’ve ever had?
  + If the whole world saw your work, if it was everywhere and kids studied it in school and towns brought it to the village green, how would the world be different? (If answers to this start to feel hokey — people would slow down, there would be more empathy — you are likely on the right track.)

make sure you take notes