4/20/2023 0 Comments Filemaker studio manager![]() ![]() And artwork inventory management is one of them. That part can be learned by example - looking to models who you want to emulate and seeing how they did it.Īnd then there are just nuts-and-bolts basic business things that keep your studio practice organized. ![]() There's the grit one must have to go to the studio regularly, the stomach for continued and ongoing rejection, and the determination to move through self-doubt to confidence in value of one's work over a period of years. The bottom line is that any kind of creative practice needs to have discipline in order to continue. It was probably much easier advice to follow in the 90s than it is now! But for better or worse, folks in my cohort came out of school with little sense of how to proceed in the art world, or how to organize our output in a way that would be maintainable over a lifetime. Ron Leax (who just retired), my sculpture instructor at Washington University, taught me core critical thinking and craft. And Heather McGill, my instructor at Cranbrook (who ALSO just retired!) on top of critical thinking taught all of us to work hard, and told us to move to New York. I don't want to imply that my college instructors didn't have advice - they were great. On one level it makes sense not to focus on business execution in art school - there's so much to assimilate and internalize and do to obtain any kind of mastery in an artmaking, that without that kind of focus purely on art, students may come out unprepared to actually have a studio practice that's meaningful. It's also one of those business-y things that (at least when I was in school) was never taught because it was about business and business was bad. Anybody who's been in this game longer than a few years knows keeping track of what's been made, who has it, what sold, when it's due back etc. ![]()
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