Artist Stories

Planning is essential, plans are useless.

How does the experience of being a teaching artist enrich your own art practice?

My Art, My Family

How do you make decisions about exhibiting work? About representation?

In what ways have you become more legal-savvy in your artistic career?

What are the challenges of working as a photographic artist in a world of fast-changing technologies and what strategies have you developed in your practice and teaching career to meet those challenges?

How I learned to quit whining about the economy and embrace BBQing

How do you engage your audience in your project's process?

Why should artists work with an art consultant? A business consultant?

How can artist organizations like Sculpture International support an artist's practice?

What does it mean to be a Black Artist? The Ironies of Diversity, or the Disappearing Black Artist

What advice do you have for emerging artists?

How did political oppression impact your art practice?

Learning about Chicago's art scene

Why did you start a network of arts websites for Chicago, and how are you going about it?

What is your most successful strategy for getting your work out there?

TEN COMMON MISTAKES ARTS GROUPS MAKE WHEN SEEKING GRANTS (from somebody who spent years seeking grants before joining a foundation and gradually learning how much he’d been doing wrong)

How can art-making impact social and political issues?

How do you balance parenthood with your artistic practice?

Backstories and Collaboration

How has today's art-practice changed? An Artist's Comment on Then and Now

What is your most successful strategy for getting your work out there?

Finding Alternatives to the For-Profit Gallery System

How have you cultivated relationships with curators?