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This is a very important skill to have you goals to have your work out in the public one day. I was very afraid of this concept, because I believed my skills were not up to par to being in such a grandeur light. Even so, I thought this experience was it only practice, but a good confidence booster. No, I am not earning a B.A or B.F.A. but for someone who is a minor, I think I am really lucky to have such an opportunity in case I want to try it one day. I a not going to lie, this process IS tough if you do not have guidelines, or a professional critiquing you on the 'goods' and the 'things you should work on', but luckily I had both. The first guide book we were steered to peruse was Jackie Battenfield's The Artist's Guide: How to Make a Living Doing What You Love. I am not a getting paid to say any of this, but I do believe this is a nice resource to have if you are an artist and you want to make money doing what you love. Being an artist is not my first profession of choice, but if I, a layman, can understand the broken down rhetoric of the book, I believe that is of some importance. Alongside the knowledge of the book, I had my professor Leticia Bajuyo talk to us about how to organize and practice presenting what we wanted to say to the panel. The combination of those two ideals led to an order of:
It's a lot right? Yes, but If you tackle each part very carefully, other parts will fall into place. I would suggest to start with the artist statement. Then look at the work you want to propose. Are there any correlations to your older works? Has this work in question been exposed to the public already? What was the audience reaction? Do you know how to superimpose images—I did, but my work had a lot of holes in it and I got really lazy.. but they still got the idea. Finally, there was the suggestion to write the cover letter last. You are pulling together all this knowledge of your craft, past works, audience reactions, what you personally stand for into one, abstract-like' document. It will be a nice summary when you are done. Then you can let out your sigh of relief. Final Tips *Do a few practice presentation to work out the kinks of what you will say so you won't get tongue tied * Print out Color Hard Copies for all panelist (judges?) that will be reviewing your work. *Introduce yourself, at the start of your presentation with your first and last name. They might have forgotten already. This is very abridged version of how to prepare for such proposals! Get help from multiple sources! Good luck to you all! Christine :)
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