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- Current Residence: Milwaukee, WI
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- Favourite band or musician: Pennywise/Bad Religion
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- Favourite artist: Banksy/H.R. Giger/Alponse Mucha
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- Favourite style of art: Illustration/crafts/comics/sculpture, so many more...
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- Skin of choice: my own; kinda pale and pinkish, some freckels/moles, moderatly hairy...
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Member of Sculpture Club
Thanks for the compliment btw. I added you on my watch, you should do the same. What are you up to these days? I hope your not a fellow "starving artist," job hunting is a most unpleasant undertaking in this economy, especially for people with supposedly "esoteric skills" like us artists.
Lol, pardon my sourness. Anywho, I hope all is well, keep in touch friend!
Things are going pretty good, I was a photo major back in the day. Although I ended up with a BA rather than a BFA because the head of the photo department is a rather vicious lady. Thats ok, because she got her ass canned, and is out after next spring. Kind of a graduation present for me. I got a photo gig with a company called lifetouch, its good work, but its seasonal/temp so I'm looking for a new job before end of Nov.
I can sympathize with you, job hunting is the worst, took me three months just to get a job. Now I have to look for another. Its a sad thing that we are no longer valued as artists and thinkers, we seem to have no purpose at this moment
What have you been up to these days?
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Member of Sculpture Club
Anyways, I graduated last January and took a long term substitute teaching job at a high school in South Milwaukee. It was an interesting experience, but I don't think teaching is for me right now. I basically decided to be a rockstar over the summer; good times, now I am job hunting for something art related (not teaching). It can be a major bummer at times, I love applying for jobs that don't even have the common courtesy to reply with a "thanks but no thanks." I am seriously debating the Peace Corps or AmeriCorps if I don't find something soon, cuz I am f*cking broke!
Well, enough of that sad business. I really want to start making again but I am in need of so many tools atm. What have you been doing for a studio and.or equipment since graduation? I have talked with a friend of mine from the metals program and we've been discussing starting an artists coop (i.e. communal studio space and tools, small gallery, and maybe a classroom setup for running workshops to help bay the bills on it). It has potential but hell if I'd get any loans from a bank right now seeeing as I am unemployed and 22,000 in debt. We'll see what happens with that shit.
Where are you living, still in Milwaukee?
You were Art Ed? or did you double in Metals? I know what its like to be around kids everyday, they wear me down a little, which high school did you teach at? I might have taken pictures there. Today I shot photos at a middle/high school on the south side, bunch of punk ass kids, a lot of gang members. Trying to scare me, I don't put up with it, they want to go toe to toe.... that is fine with me. I kinda enjoy it
Finding jobs in art is the toughest shit ever, there is a few opportunities but to many applicants/competition. Sometimes I wish I would get rejection letters just to know, no news is bad news. I've checked into AmeriCorps briefly, but it doesn't offer much as a living wage, just seems to postpone the problem of not having a job and a shit ton of debt. Its waiting when you get done. 40K is about what I'm looking at.... scary to think about it.
I'm in the same boat, no tools or resources to make work. I can't even afford to print photos for shows. Been using old work/prints for the last couple shows I did this year. I can't keep using the shit I made in school. Love the idea of a coop, had the same thought about 4 years ago when I dropped out of college for a semester. Getting something started takes a big investment, but like you I have no stable income and a debt that might send me to an early grave. As an investor, back then, I was thinking about writing proposals to big name galleries and companies involved in the arts. That might defeat the purpose of a coop though.
I'm still in Milwaukee for now, as long as I can get work, the Army has been my last resort as a means of survival. However, military life isn't much of a life in my opinion.
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"you fight great but i'm a great fighter"
Apollo Creed
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So break yourself against my stones
And spit your pity in my soul
You never needed any help
You sold me out to save yourself
And I won't listen to your shame
You ran away, you're all the same...
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lifes a beach....then the tide goes out, thats when you realize it really stinks
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