Wednesday, June 4, 12:00-2:00 pm EDT (GMT -4)
Wednesday, June 11, 12:00-2:00 pm EDT (GMT -4)
Wednesday, June 18, 12:00-2:00 pm EDT (GMT -4)
Wednesday, June 25, 12:00-2:00 pm EDT (GMT -4)
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In addition to our Wednesday workshop sessions, I will host optional breakout conversations on Fridays and Mondays. These are a chance go a little deeper, share questions and ideas in a smaller group setting.

Sustaining in a Time of Change Friday breakouts
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Meeting ID: 850 2630 7073
Friday, June 6, 1:00-2:00 pm EDT (GMT -4)
Friday, June 13, 1:00-2:00 pm EDT (GMT -4)
Friday, June 20, 1:00-2:00 pm EDT (GMT -4)
Friday, June 27, 1:00-2:00 pm EDT (GMT -4)
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Sustaining in a Time of Change Monday breakouts
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Meeting ID: 813 7162 2782
Monday, June 9, 6:00-7:00 pm EDT (GMT -4)
Monday, June 16, 6:00-7:00 pm EDT (GMT -4)
Monday, June 23, 6:00-7:00 pm EDT (GMT -4)
Monday, June 30, 6:00-7:00 pm EDT (GMT -4)
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session #1: planning
june 4

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.

2) Leave it alone for three days.

3) Get out your list and sift through it for what feels most important to you. Choose your three top goals.
  + Three total, not three from each category (they can be from any category). 
+ One question to ask: What are goals that no one else will push on if I don’t?

4) Break each goal down into tiny doable steps and then tasks the smaller the better.

Session #2: Money
june 11

Two prompts for next week:

Write down your revenue streams (Workbook p. 46) 
+ List all the ways you have been paid in the past two years.
+ (You can also list earlier revenue streams you no longer pursue, especially if you might be interested in doing them again.)

Write down how you spend your time. (Workbook p. 57-64)
+ Do this with unconditional friendliness toward yourself. This is an information exercise.
+ Be specific. “Did work from 10:00-1:30” is vague. Break it down: “Answered emails 10:00-10:40, worked on project budget 10:40-11:00, phone call with Tia 11:00-11:30.”
+ Try especially to notice is the flows and rhythms of your deep attention, the high level attention we bring to our artistic practice. When does that attention show up in your week and for how long?

Session #3: Time design
June 18

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.)

Both people take notes