working on my website...

http://kaseyhartsock.weebly.com/

think i've at least started in the right direction
wanting to advertise my photography, director, and model capabilities
still looking at other websites like mine for reference....
any new critiques to be made??
i think its a work in progress but i feel satisfied with it thus far :)

i absolutely prefer the website over the blog (with keeping updated)

5 year plan

1 year from now:
I plan on living in either the OC (bc its only an hour away from my parents) or if they move to Arizona by the time i graduate then i plan on moving there.
In that time I'm going to decide if i should go to grad school at ASU or not
2 years from now:
working at some sort of magazine or branch of a clothing brand company - helping with advertisements, hopefully past the stage of interning & exploring - instead getting my portfolio together for an art director position
3 years from now:
hopefully getting married - may have to relocate to where my husband is stationed (army) fingers crossed for NY. which has some of the most opportunities for art directors for major magazines, labels, and companies such as Conde Nast.
4 years from now:
a good, working, and ever expanding portfolio - applying for bigger position jobs
maybe after settling down at this point, able to produce personal art work and apply for gallery spaces
5 years from now:
I'll be 27 years old, with a family, located in some sort of busy city (no rural area please)
with a 9-5 job at some sort of fashion inspired corporate place
plans for the future? kids, a home, creating and working on my own line, casting director, free lance photographer, regularly keeping a blog, discover different religions, travel, and live.

KM's updated 5 year plan

5 year plan- Kath McGaughey

add ons-

·       Investigate venues for BFA work to be shown. eg: ‘End of Life/ Care education’ organizations, hospice, hospitals etc Investigate/ prepare proposals. (follow up with professors regarding this)

·       (more than 5 years out but in the plan- ) Dobell Prize for Drawing

http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/about-us/opportunities-for-artists/prizes/dobell-prize/

·       MFA in 2D/ mixed media at Sierra Nevada College- now a real possibility!

Talk to school about when and how the program will operate and entrance requirements

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·       MFA in 2 D/ mixed media. Australia( 2013?) or USA. (2 year committment)

 School possibilities-

MFA at Australian National University, Canberra, ACT  http://soa.anu.edu.au/postgrad/coursework-degrees

·       MFA in 2D/ mixed media at UNR, Reno http://www.unr.edu/art/

·       Build up portfolio/ continue to build skill set. Course work through Sierra College (life drawing, oil painting and ceramics and PHOTOSHOP). Summer course work- Sierra Nevada College 2012 wood engraving- Sarah Whorf 

·       Riverside Studios for short term. Sales and work to cover cost of materials+ . 

 Riverside – artist of the month (joint show- summer, 2012 with Jessica Hayworth???)  

 Provide 2D work for commission sale.

·       Nevada Museum of fine arts- docent program/ interships and jobs available in the Curatorial, Education, Communications, Advancement departments. http://www.nevadaart.org/about/jobs-internships

·       Investigate residencies programs, juried shows in the area- Truckee, Reno, Grass Valley, Sacramento, Nevada City

·       Blue Bird jewelry design collaboration. http://www.bluebirddesigns.com/    Jessica Hall is a metal smith and jewelry technician whose business is doing well. She is looking to expand her physical shop space and incorporate local artists and their work.

Lexy's 5 year

Year 1: Find a job to fund my move to North or South Carolina or Georgia. At this point it can be really anything to make money to move. Do art on the side and try to get work into Comma Coffee, The Hobson Gallery, and Artsy Fartsy.

Year 2: Move to the already mentioned states. Get a job with a literary review like the North Carolina Literary Review, Crazyhorse Literary Review, or Georgia Review. Enjoy the east coast.

Year 3: Continue to live  and work on the east coast and start submitting work to galleries like  the Alan Avery Art Company in Georgia, 701 CCA in South Carolina, or the Upstairs Gallery in North Carolina. 

Year 4: Get tired of the east and miss my family. Move back home. Start my own sort of small poetry review with my new connections and experience. Start applying to graduate school. 

Year 5: Move to the Bay Area [probably live with my grandma] and go to the University of San Francisco working towards my MFA in Creative Writing.  

Galleries:

Comma Coffee: commacoffee.com

312 S. Carson St.
Carson City, NV 89701

(775) 883-2662 

Hobson Gallery: 

315 Spokane St. Ste. 2
Reno, NV 89512 

Artsy Fartsy:

220 W. Telegraph St.

Carson City, NV 89703

Alan Avery Art Company:

Trinity Gallery:

315 East Paces Ferry Rd.
Atlanta, Georgia 30305 

404-237-0370 

701 CCA:  www.701cca.org

701 Whaley Street,
Columbia, SC 29201
(803) 779-4571 

Upstairs Gallery

frontdesk@upstairsartspace.org

(828) 859-2828

Reviews:

North Carolina Literary Review:

Department of English 

East Carolina University

2132 Bate Building

Greenville, NC 27858

Editor: Dr. Margaret D. Bauer

(252) 328-1537

baurm@ecu.edu

Crazyhorse Literary Review:

crazyhorse@cofc.edu

Department of English

College of Charleston

66 George St.

Charleston, SC 29424

Editor: Garrett Doherty
843-953-7740

Georgia Review

garev@uga.edu

320 S. Jackson St.

University of Georgia

Athens, GA 30602

706.542.3481 

Jessica's 5-year plan

Year 1:
BFA in Spring
Continue to work at SNC for the following year
Enter a residency program (Anderson Ranch)
Start a new book
Submit to publishing companies (Drawn and Quarterly, Wide Awake Press, Gaze Books, Domino Books)
Riverside Studios show with Kath

Year 2:
Enter MFA program (SNC)
Start working towards thesis
Continue work on book/portfolio
Attend Small Press Expo

Year 3:
Continue MFA/thesis
Continue work on book/portfolio
Attend SPX

Year 4:
Finish MFA/thesis
Maybe take a break and go climb some trees or something
Continue submitting to publishing companies/local galleries

Year 5:
Continue making work
Possibly another residency program
If possible, acquire studio space/small press
Continue submissions, etc.

five year plan

year 1:

graduate from SNC

work on portfolio

year 2:

travel

try and get into grad school

year 3:

start grad school

start an internship/ assistant work

(obtain connections/ contacts)

year 4:

finish grad school

internship/ assistant work

year 5:

live where I want to live

(vegas, california, maybe new york)

try and get hired

probably have lots of dogs.

assist photographers, photo work for magazines, art director work,

advertising (Weiden+Kennedy, David & Goliath, Publicis, &Co.)

(a lot depends on where I end up for school, but just some ideas)

internships through:

school

toms- http://www.toms.com/our-movement/intern

krochet kids- http://www.krochetkids.org/who-we-are/jobs-internships/

magazine

schools (in no order):

GRADUATE:

Savannah College of Art and Design

http://www.scad.edu/advertising/index.cfm

Academy of Art University

http://www.academyart.edu/advertising-school/index.html

UNDERGRADS:

Art Center College of Design

http://www.artcenter.edu/accd/programs/undergraduate/advertising.jsp

Fashion Institute of Technology

http://www.fitnyc.edu/1838.asp

Northern Arizona University

http://catalog.nau.edu/DegreeSearch/detail.jsp?plan=ADVBS

Miami Ad School

http://www.miamiadschool.com/

BYU

https://saas.byu.edu/catalog/2011-2012ucat/departments/Communications/Advertising.php

USF

http://www.usfca.edu/artsci/advt/

Kickstarter...

The Everyone Orchestra

random article i came across..

Sam Shear - New 5Year Plan

Sam Shear

5 Year Plan

Year 1.

Achieve my BFA from Sierra Nevada College

Start to create a resume for myself along with a nice portfolio, full of work

Continue to pump out work (working with wax, ceramics, and other materials)

Submit work to local galleries 

-Sierra Nevada College Gallery- Incline Village, Nv.

http://www.sierranevada.edu/index.php?id=1559

-The Hobson Gallery- Reno, Nv.

http://www.thesalvagery.com/

- Riverside Studios- Truckee, Ca. 

http://www.riversideartstudios.com/home.html

- Others

Year 2.

Start to work towards a MFA either from Sierra Nevada College or other

Expand upon my ideas... ten folds 

Continue to work with wax and other materials

Continue to submit work to local galleries

Year 3.

Work with wax and the traveler until i feel i have exhausted the idea (anytime)

The traveler candle is in some type of production mode (and selling like hot cakes) from off the website

Continue to submit work to local and nationwide galleries 

Year 4.

Start to put my foot in to the artist door (larger galleries and a name for myself)

Continue to sell wax candle figure (side money)

Creating larger (more intricate work) and better piece of work

Continue to work with more materials (wood, metal, ect.) to keep my feet in the water

Year 5.

Pick up a job for support 

Move out to Galena IL. (second home)

Create my own workshop

Set up large kiln

Have a great supplier for all wax needs

Work, Work, Work 

Submit work to local galleries all around Galena IL. a total of  

Become famous..

Never Forget Sierra Nevada College*

REMINDER: What's due for the final (besides breakfast)

Before the start of the final, you must have completed:

1. Your website, with all tweaks to portfolio, artist statement, and resume made.

2. Your fleshed out 5-year plan, with names and contact info for all the details (MFA programs, residencies, exhibit spaces, publishers, etc., you plan to approach), BOTH posted to this class blog, and printed out.

3. A one-paragraph statement on why it is important (or at least interesting) for a culture to have artists. Or, if it makes more sense to think of the question this way: what's the use of being an artist? Have a PRINTED COPY of this for the final.

What We're Bringing for Breakfast

In the comments, please post what you'll be bringing for breakfast for the final in the comments section.

Course Evaluation Link

Here's the link for the survey:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/Lanier_FNAR_380_381_482

FINAL TIME

Our final will be on Thurs, 12/8, from 8am-11am.

Bring breakfast.

molly

5 YEAR PLAN

Year 1

Complete my senior year at sierra Nevada. Make plan about BFA show! Complete my credits.

Year 2

Complete my BFA and my show! Then second semester apply to grad schools and fill out scholarship information. Apply to local galleries. (The Riverside studio in Truckee, I could contact Heather River.)And figure stuff out!

Year 3

MOVE! Start my MFA at Maybe Caifornia College of the Arts, or Hartford Art School. Make alot of really awesome work and submit to galleries In the area. (Galleries depend on where I end up)

Year 4

Finish my MFA! Create work non-stop! Research artist in residency programs

Year 5

Start an artist in residency program who knows where! (anderson ranch)

Jessica 5-Year Plan

Year 1:
BFA in Spring
Continue to work at SNC for the following year
Enter a residency program (Anderson Ranch or other)
Start a new book
Submit to publishing companies and local galleries

Year 2:
Enter MFA program (undecided on where at this point)
Start working towards thesis
Continue work on book/portfolio

Year 3:
Continue MFA/thesis
Continue work on book/portfolio

Year 4:
Finish MFA/thesis
Maybe take a break and go climb some trees or something
Continue submitting to publishing companies/local galleries

Year 5:
Continue making work
Possibly another residency program
If possible, acquire studio space/small press
Continue submissions, etc.

Matt Matt 5 Year Proposed Plan

Year 1

Complete my BFA show at Sierra Nevada College with a better than passing grade and graduate in the spring.

Year 2

Continue working in the 3 dimensional clay or otherwise. Progress my apprenticeship with Matthew Welter and gain more art connections through that.

Year 3

Move out of parents house to somewhere in Tahoe. Keep my apprenticeship with Matthew strong and progress as a wood working artist, but also continue in mixed media and ceramics. Get a job as a ski instructor for a free ski pass.

Year 4

Have several studio art contracts in smaller local galleries and some larger ones.

Progress my skill and craft to a point that will define my art to whoever looks at it.

Side job as ski instructor for free pass still.

Year 5

Keep the current gallery contracts I have and continue to slowly move my art outwards into the surrounding area and larger city centers.

Continue to expand my knowledge of sculpture on any medium and have fun doing it.

brett's plan

5-Year Plan
Year 1:
-Develop website
-Have brettvarga.com up and running
-Pursue teaching MA

Year 2:
-Cont. Pursuing teaching MA
-Try to substitute teach
-Cont. adding onto website
-Try to do a group show with Burdett in Va Beach, VA
-Complete MA in teaching

Year 3:
-Try to get a solo gallery show in the works
-Promote solo gallery show
- Actually pull off the show within the year

Year 4:
-Use gallery show buzz to promote website
-Try to acquire a teaching job, permanent sub, assistant, etc.
-Try to continue making art while teaching

Year 5:
-Hopefully have a teaching position ( ANYWHERE)
-Continue making art
-Continue promoting myself through my website
- Try to get another group show in the works

5 year plan possibilities

Kath McGaughey

• MFA in 2 D/ mixed media. Australia( 2013?) or USA. (2 year committment)

 School possibilities-

MFA at Australian National University, Canberra, ACT  http://soa.anu.edu.au/postgrad/coursework-degrees

 MFA in 2D/ mixed media at Sierra Nevada College if offered

 MFA in 2D/ mixed media at UNR, Reno http://www.unr.edu/art/

• Build up portfolio/ continue to build skill set. Course work through Sierra College (life drawing, oil painting and ceramics and PHOTOSHOP).          Summer course work- Sierra Nevada College 2012 wood engraving- Sarah Whorf 
•  Riverside Studios for short term. Sales and work to cover cost of materials + .          Riverside – artist of the month (joint show- summer, 2012 with Jessica Hayworth)    Provide 2D work for commission sale.
• Nevada Museum of fine arts- docent program/ interships and jobs available in the Curatorial, Education, Communications, Advancement departments. http://www.nevadaart.org/about/jobs-internships
• Investigate residencies programs, juried shows 
• Blue Bird jewelry design collaboration. http://www.bluebirddesigns.com/        Jessica Hall is a metalsmith and jewelry technician whose business is doing well. She is looking to        expand her physical shop space and incorporate local artists and their work.

Sam Shear 5 Year Plan

Sam Shear

5 Year Plan

Year 1.

Achieve my BFA from Sierra Nevada College

Start creating a resume for myself along with a nice portfolio, full of work

Continue to pump out work

Submit work to local galleries

Year 2.

Start to work towards a MFA either from Sierra Nevada College or other

Really start to expand upon my ideas ten folds 

Continue to work with wax

Continue to submit work to local galleries 

Year 3.

Continue to work with wax and the traveler until i feel i have exhausted the idea

Once i feel i have a large enough portfolio, start to show in gallery

The traveler candle is in production mode and selling from off the website

Continue to submit work to local and nationwide galleries 

Year 4.

Start to put my foot in to the artist door

Continue to sell wax candle figure

Creating larger and better piece of work 

Start to work with more materials (wood, metal, ect.)

Year 5.

Move out to Galena IL. (second home)

Create my own workshop

Set up large kiln

Work, Work, Work 

Become famous 

Artist Statement

My work has been about the possessions we carry with us through life, and what we leave along the way. I enjoy using wax as my foundation material because it mimics the state we are all in when we travel from one place to another. Just as the wax melts into a liquid pool and spills over the fragile edge, it takes on a life of it’s own. I believe that when people travel, they loose the solid foundation of their home, and leave, in search of something new. People have a certain movement to them when they travel, just as the wax does when it falls from the candle on to a new base.

It’s a material that has proven itself, time and time again, always lending itself to the creative ideas of the artist. I have complete control over the wax as a solid, molding, carving and shaping. As the wax changes from a solid form to liquid, I have less control of the wax, and this is the exciting part. The moment of transition, seeing my art turn from one state of matter to another. 

I feel that working more in other mediums will help me to expand on my foundation of wax art. I also enjoy working with ceramics, wood and photography. I am able to explore my ideas in a different context, seeing my themes in a new light. Exploring the subject matter in this way excites me and helps me delve deeper into my true medium. There is a freedom in working with wax that lets me explore the 3-D realm. Art will always be with me, in one form or another, for the rest of my life.

www.molly-allen-art.weebly.com

Matt Mattsons Website

mattmattsonsart.weebly.com

Kath's website

http://kathmcgaughey.weebly.com/

.....I am fighting with weebly....can't upload photos etc....

Website

http://samshearart.weebly.com/

Kasey Hartsock's Weebly

Kasey Hartsock Photography - Website

Website

http://jessicahayworth.weebly.com/

brett's internets site

http://brettvarga.weebly.com/

website

http://christyrasmussen.weebly.com/

For Thursday's Class (11/17)

You homework for Tuesday will be to have, printed out, a sketch of your five-year-plan. As in: what are your plans for the next five years – how will you pursue art-making – what is your ultimate goal for your life five years out, and what steps do you think you have to take to get there?

You can download a copy of the thing I handed out at the beginning of the semester, "Ways of Being a Working Artist" – it might be helpful to use as a jumping-off point for strategies of steps to take. Take a look at the tracks I laid out, and see which one might be most applicable to your ambitions:

http://www.box.net/s/5k62iffmps6sjg7n9ftm

You can have a general outline for now, but I'll expect you to flesh out the details. For instance, if you're planning on getting an MFA, I'll expect a list of three schools you think would be a good fit. If you're wanting to build an exhibition record, I'll want to know what galleries you plan to contact.

Lexy's website

That's very plain right now.

lexyeich.weebly.com

Due Thursday (11/17)

By Thursday, have a weebly site live, with at least one slideshow and your artist statement posted. Post a link to your site on this class blog.

Brett Artist Statement

My art could be described as a chaotic mess. To just call it that would not only be an understatement, it be missing the point. What is the point exactly? It’s to increase my range as an artist. I never want to be stuck in the same place or motif for to long. It gets boring to say the least.
It all originated near the end of high school. I finally was able to take an art class since middle school. I showed a piece “Gorillaz” in the Contemporary Art Museum of Virginia. From there I moved onto Utah State where I increased my skills drawing, painting, photography, ceramic and in aspects of design. Soon after I transferred to SNC. I learned how to use various digital art programs including Final Cut and Photoshop.
Since graduating high school, I’ve dabbled in almost every medium of art from printmaking to photography. I’ve always loved painting. A recreation I painting of Van Gogh’s “The Poet” was placed in the 2011 SNC student Art show. The piece “Van Varga” just so happened to win one hundred dollars. I participated in the 2011 Fall JAPR show. The piece I presented “University of Merjersy” was images accompany by an audio tour. It was the first time I used comedy in my art to convey a deeper meaning. The show was a venue that articulated how people propitiate an image of how they want to be perceived.
Even though I want to incorporate mixed media in many of my works going forward. I think it’s essential to keep humor in most of my work. I feel that comedy is one of the best venues to explore social, political, or economic issues. My art is a direct extension of my ideology. Being kind of a comedian, I feel I connect best to my work when I try to bring some of my humor into it. As an artist it’s important to be able to connect to your art and know where it’s coming from. Hallow art, where there is no clear meaning, isn’t art at all. My art has a soul, or a part of my soul. My art has meaning, it has personality, and it has life.

Draft of artist's statement

My work examines the disconnect between the real world and our subjective observations of it. Through sequencing and narrative, I address the way that individuals create states of mind for themselves, and how these layers can color everything that they look at. I tell stories about a world altered by perceptions, emotions, and anxieties. Everyday events are intensified and viewed through a microscopic lens. I am trying to create a world that is affected by our observations of it, that manifests our interpretations of what we see. I’m very interested in what happens when a private thought or feeling is pushed into a public space. My work explores the things that we hide, the thoughts and feelings that we can’t communicate, and the layers between what we see and how we see it.