2007 – Goals
Art Goals:
- Design, piece, quilt and complete 20 brand new quilts in my major series.
- Complete the 17 major pieces started prior to 2007 that are still unfinished: Structures #47, Structures #48, Structures #49, Structures #50, Structures #65, Markings #4, Markings #5, Markings #6, Markings #7, Markings #8, Markings #9, Markings #10, Markings #14, Keys #1, Keys #2, Circles #1, Circles #2.
- Design and piece 5-10 new pieces during 2 week workshop with Nancy Crow. I will quilt these pieces in 2008.
- Complete 10 smaller pieces with hand quilting/beading including quilts in progress: Squares #5, Chicken Quartet #2 and Spirals #1.
- Complete 6 new drawings from the Plains series.
- Get back to sketching and do the exercises in Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain.
- Continue to play with oil and watercolor paints on occasion.
- Continue to use my sketchbook for art ideas, plans, goals, etc on a regular basis.
- Work in the studio 20 hours a week.
Art Business Goals:
- Secure 3 new solo shows for 2008 and beyond.
- Send out 2-4 show proposals per month.
- Limit my juried show entries to at most 5 high quality national shows. I will not pay to enter any more juried shows that are for quilts only (with the exception of Quilt National and maybe Sedgwick).
- Buy a new computer. Last year this was a nice to have. This year it is a must have as my hard drive is going bad.
- Find money to pay for new computer and 2 week workshop. Preferably via some art related activity.
- Create detailed budget for art business instead of just watching the numbers add up.
- Keep business finances up to date instead of waiting until tax time to deal with them. Enter data into spreadsheet at least 4 times a year.
- Continue blogging about my art.
- Redo the categories for my blog so they are actually useful.
- Update website. While I’m not planning a major rewrite it needs some serious work to bring it up to date.
- Update listing/news on main website 3 times this year.
- Start an online Studio Newsletter with 3 issues in 2007.
- Create email mailing list for newsletter.
- Update my snail-mail mailing list 4 times this year. Add publications to mailing list.
- Inventory my artwork in a database vs. a spreadsheet.
- Put together detailed schedule for meeting 2007 goals.
- Work on art business 5 hours a week.
Last year I wrote this about my goals as I aimed to double my art output from 2005:
I think my goals are pretty darn aggressive and with little vacation time from work I’m not sure how realistic they are. But I’d rather aim high and miss than aim low and not challenge myself.
This year I’m looking to almost double again what I tried to do in 2006. So I think the same comment applies. I rose to the challenge last year and I am hoping to achieve my goals this year by doing a better job at this daily goal:
Spend significantly less time on the computer while at home.
And with that note it’s back to the studio to design some new work.
Posted by Lisa in: Goals and Intention
I read your goals for 2006 and what you actually accomplished…very impressive! You have an agressive strategy for 2007 too! Enjoy your journey, I have no doubt that you’ll accomplish all of it!
Good luck! You are a delight and an inspiration.
Good lord, Lisa, your resolutions put my silly little list to shame. I now have to go back and add many more items:-)
I am very impressed that you are so dedicated PLUS you have a day job. And that you plan to, and will accomplish so much.
Your goals are so impressive that I am moved to tell you how amazing they and you are. I love your blog, it’s fabulous.
Thanks for sharing your goals – I saw a link to this post on the Art Biz Blog & am really glad I clicked over to read it. Now you have me thinking about my own goals for this year!
Hi Lisa–am totally impressed with your goal setting and achieving. As for the computer and the 2 week workshop, have you tried writing them down as if they are a given? Like “I have the great new computer I want that does everything I want it to do and more and I am taking such and such a workshop this (month, week, date). Have you watched “The Secret”? According to the Law of Attraction, if we read our goal as already a given, we will achieve it. This works for me so well it’s sort of scary and I have to be very clear about what I want. As they say, if you just say you want more money, a few quarters may show up– it may be more money but may not be the amount you had in mind! So be as specific about the computer and the workshop as you are about your other goals and you will attain them! Just look at what you’ve accomplished so far. The Law of Attraction tells you not to worry about how or why or where or when–let the universe fill in those blanks! You go, girl! I feel inspired….
Lisa, I admire you goal setting – WOW I’m tired just reading it! I am interested in what Mary was saying about the law of attraction. “The Secret” – is there an author or more information that would make it easier to find this information? I could use all the help I could get! Lover the colors in #65 – quite a departure from many of your other pieces, but we all have to shake it up once in awhile. I got a copy of Uncommon Threads – interesting, but they really rushed everything. If a person didn’t know anything about dyeing they would have been totally lost. Keep up the fab work!
wow, that is an amazing list of goals. Mine are tiny this year lol! Like you though I want to spend less time on the computer and have decided to limit my time to visiting my few fave blogs, update mine once a week, and spend more time on my sketchbook and planning for a small but intense series of paintings.
I enjoy reading your blog and looking (plus admiring) your art quilts. Great goals your have set for 2007. Seeing all what you have done for 2006, no doubt will you accomplish your 2007 goal list.
Thanks for sharing all you thoughts and art works.
Best wishes,
Lita
Cynthia, Olga, Tracy, Kathy, Leah, Mary, Patty, Jafabrit, and Lita: Thanks for all the compliments. We’ll see at the end of the year if I pull it off.
Mary – what is “The Secret”? A TV show or movie or ??
But you are very right. And my BIG goals – the career ones that I have written down for where I want to be in 10 and 20 and 30 years with my art are all written in the positive “I’ve achieved this” kind of way. Time for another post on the topic of goals….
Wow. Your goals are so specific! My goal is just to finish the piece I’m working on…one bead at a time… Thanks for stopping by=:)
Lisa, you are so dang motivated. It’s very cool.