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A fun little presentation I put together for my lecture to my 150 first year students in the College of Visual Arts & Design at the University of North Texas
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ART 1450 Design II Lecture
Professional Preparation:
It’s never to early to plan
for your future…
Handouts
Professional Preparation
What I wish I knew in my first year of College…
Professional Preparation
Artist Professional Survival Kit with Betty Hart
Essential Tools:
WebsiteBusiness Cards
RésuméArtist StatementSmall notebookWork InventoryFiling SystemMailing List
Thank you notes
Essential Tools:
Website
Essential Tools:
Clear, easy to navigate
Up-to-date
Appropriate content (keep the personal and professional separate)
Business Cards
Essential Tools:
Keep some with you AT ALL TIMES!
Make them as creative as your work.
Keep contact info clear.
Professional email account.
Résumé
Essential Tools:
Continually update!
Different versions for different purposes.
Be creative with it!(evidence of the hand, your work,
collaborate/trade)
Artist Statement
Essential Tools:
Continually update!
Different versions for different purposes.
“Grandmother Test” (Would your grandmother understand what it means?)
Small Notebook
Essential Tools:
Keep with you AT ALL TIMES!
Never know when you need to quickly jot something down:
Contact info, random idea/sketch, etc.
Inventory Information
Essential Tools:
Continually update!
Quality images of ALL completed work.
Title, Dimensions, Completion Date, Materials, Processes, Exhibition
History, Price, Current Location, etc.
Filing System
Essential Tools:
Physical and/or digital.
Personally determine categories:StudioOffice
ResearchTravelEtc.
Mailing List
Essential Tools:
Physical and/or digital “addresses”
Send year-end holiday card as a way to maintain networks?
Different categories:PR
Holiday mailingSuppliers
Fellow alumniEtc.
Thank You Notes
Essential Tools:
High quality stationary (Crane, etc.)
Handwritten note is even more impactful now!
Networking Tips:
How to professionally connect with others in your field once you are out “in the world” on your own…
Networking Tips:
It might not be what you think:It should be done with integrity and sincerity…
Resources
Networking Tips:
Professional OrganizationsTake a class
Alumni AssociationsVolunteer
Getting “your foot in the door” is the most difficult step…volunteering can help this
happen!
How to Make the Most of Connections:
Networking Tips:
Start local.
Appropriately maximize every contact.
“If at once you don’t succeed, try try again!”
Maintain & utilize mailing lists.
Follow up! (do what you say you will do!)
What’s your Plan?:
Networking Tips:
Where are you andwhere do you want to go?
Geographically
Professionally
Reputation-level(regional/national/international)
How to Keep Creating:
How to Keep Creating:
Devote at least 10 minutes to your creative activity EVERY DAY!
How to Keep Creating:
If you can’t spare 10 minutes a day, then your creative activity is simply not
a priority in your life!
Devote at least 10 minutes to your creative activity EVERY DAY!
How to Keep Creating:
You define whatever counts as your “creative activity”:
SketchingShooting images
Collecting images onlineWriting
Blogging
Devote at least 10 minutes to your creative activity EVERY DAY!
How to Keep Creating:
But it must be PRODUCING something not just CONSUMING:
Just sitting around, listening to music, or watching videos or playing games
doesn’t count!
Keep an ongoing reading list
How to Keep Creating:
Books, articles, online journals, etc.
Set aside time to read EVERY WEEK, if not every day!
Keep a personal bibliography/notes
Keep current in your field
How to Keep Creating:
Attend local exhibitions/openings
Read relevant periodicals EVERY MONTH! (subscribe, library)
Attend annual conference (plan ahead & save money)
Maintain deadlines
How to Keep Creating:
Personally set
Externally set (continually enter exhibitions & competitions)
Remember, no more homework assignments to keep you busy…
Keep Building Your Résumé
How to Keep Creating:
Exhibitions
Workshops
Volunteer activities
Large gaps in résumé demonstrate lack of commitment to your work
Good Luck out there!