Things are happening, but slowly. I have been putting my energies into a lot of business efforts and research, so I haven't had as much to document here. Things I'm thinking about: the next series, places I would like to show my work, possibilities for developing networks for artists. I was discussing with some friends today how one of the things that I feel is desperately lacking in professional life as an artist are colleagues. It could just be the nature of artists and people in art fields to be solitary and flakey, but I would hope that at some point I begin to build a community of people that I would consider colleagues. For some reason I've found it incredibly difficult in every city that I've lived in to develop such a community/network.
What is it that I want? I would love to have people with common goals and professional pursuits interested in supporting/collaborating/brainstorming/ and working for professional growth. I'd love to have people around with both common and different experiences, yet it's so difficult to develop this and the established networks don't always effectively connect people.
I'm just getting down my thoughts at the moment. Perhaps I'll return to this train of thought with a better idea of a way to move towards establishing some kind of network/community.
I'd be interested to hear any thoughts from artists on whether or not you have what you would consider a professional network, would you even want one, and if so, what would it look like to you?
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Christine (my wife) and I are in the beginning stages of putting together a show at our "studio" (we live on western ave and our front room used to be a store front) tentatively scheduled for beginning to mid December. I have a couple of photo friends interested in hanging work and Christine has some friends/classmates that she is inviting. We too believe in the 'community', and feel that you should be involved.
ReplyDeleteThat would be great! Let me know how I can participate.
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