In addition to all your Portfolio & Networking work this semester, it’s also essential that you make new art every week. Make a list of the 16 pieces you plan to create this semester.
One of my students at Allan Hancock College taught me the simplest, and most powerful lesson in the world: if you just do stuff, you never get better. If you measure what you do and try to do a little better tomorrow, you can make dramatic improvements.
As young artists, we often have “Imposter Complex”. We feel unworthy. Inadequate. Finding a great teacher, like Ed Brokaw, who believes in you can change everything. Try to believe in yourself. Try to blow past all the fuss about points & grades and things that don’t matter. Clear your field of view and focus on the only thing that does matter, building the art career you want.
Notes on all the web hosting companies I’ve used. Or the ones I can remember, anyway. And a few domain name registrars.
The Internet isn’t just a tool to document your art in other media. The Internet is also a compelling contemporary art medium in its own right.
Don’t blow this week off! Take your portfolio to the next level & get ready to launch your post-SOA career!
This week you give & receive portfolio feedback from your Art 490 classmates.
This week we start or update our professional presence on Instagram, LinkedIn, and other platforms. Connect to your Art 490 classmates, interact with the world, and build your career!
YouTube is a giant ocean of tutorial videos! Here are a few samples for creating your portfolio. There are many more. If you want to do a specific thing, try typing YouTube searches like “Squarespace Center Image” or whatever you’d like to do.
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