Advice to a Young Artist

This post is directed at the faculty and staff of the Art Institute and the School of the Art Institute. What would you like to say to a class of mostly freshman students who are taking “The Art of Crossing the Street”? This class is about investigating the role of the artist in society and involves critical readings, field trips, visits from faculty experts and a class project where the students work in teams.

Possible questions to guide your comments: Why do you create? How do you support yourself? What would you have done differently? What guidelines do you follow to keep yourself fresh and engaged? Who inspires you? Thank you!

Welcome to the Crossing

OK – you’ve gotten this far. Great. First assignment:

Each student will post at least one reflection on this blog for each week AND one comment on someone else’s reflection.

In your first reflection, please do two things:

(1) What should we talking about in this weekly blog? Simply comment on what you learned in class that week? Reflect upon some image or text you encountered that deals with artists or descriptions of artists? Something else?

(2) What (if any) should the rules of the blog be regarding types and tone of your comments?

Let the fun begin.