Comments on: Design Principles: Caring, Success and Failure

By: Lisa Call

Lisa Call — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 03:04:32 +0000

Laura - thank you - I’m glad you find value in my posts. Stay tuned for more details!

Stacey - I agree - at some point the week long workshops are no longer the thing we need. Your 6 month program sounds awesome! What an excellent opportunity.

Daniel - I’ll have to check out that movie. I do think one of the things I will miss when I eventually quit the day job is the collaboration - my job is mostly about talking to people and coming to agreement. It’s pretty fun most days. Just not as fun as art.

Leslie - thank you for the compliments. Finding good groups can really make a huge difference. I think taking a class is a good way to meet like minded artists. Goo luck for you also.

By: Leslie

Leslie — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 07:08:31 +0000

Yes, I’m also finding my work as an artist too solitary. Haven’t yet found the groups or mentors to connect with and I think that’s one of my top priorities now. The energy of collaboration and mutual inspiration is powerful.
Your mentoring has already started through this blog, Lisa. If you take it to a more formal level, I just might ask you to be mine. Wishing you the best in all your endeavors!

By: Daniel Sroka

Daniel Sroka — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 15:43:29 +0000

I just watched the movie “Once”, and found myself envious of the casual yet engaged mentoring and peer-to-peer collaboration that can exist for musicians. Being a visual artist — essentially a solitary act — is a little too lonely at times.

By: Stacey Peterson

Stacey Peterson — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 14:45:40 +0000

Lisa - seeing what you share on your blog, I think you would be able to really give back and impact others with a mentorship program. There comes a time when the standard weeklong workshop format ceases to be useful, and an artist needs a mentor or teacher to go deeper - unfortunately, there aren’t a lot of artists out there filling that need. It’s great that you’re thinking about it!

I’m going to be doing a 6 month mentorship program with landscape painter Jay Moore starting in July, and I can’t tell you how excited I am to have some in-depth, long-term instruction from someone whose work and business practices I respect. I’m so excited I can’t stand it! Hopefully I’ll have some ideas about how to pass that knowledge on when it’s over…

By: Laure

Laure — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 12:56:21 +0000

Hi, Lisa, I believe your mentoring has already begun - and is very successful - on your blog! I, for one, have learned a tremendous amount from you this year and you’ve inspired me as well as challenged my thinking on various things - I look forward to hearing more about what you’ve got in mind!

Laure

By: Lisa Call

Lisa Call — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 21:08:37 +0000

Thanks Vikki.

Wanda - How cool! My dad and mom both went to one room schoolhouses also. My kids spend most of their time with their crews (ie classes) although they do have multi-age classrooms (my daughter is with all 6-8th graders).

By: vikki

vikki — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 18:29:09 +0000

…And that was suppose to read ‘textural art.’ Sorry.
Vikki

By: Wanda

Wanda — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 18:28:16 +0000

principal #4 sounds like the old one room schoolhouses that I went to as a child. We heard what was being taught to the older kids and that is how I knew the color wheel as young as first grade. The older kids always looked out for the little kids.

By: vikki

vikki — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 18:27:34 +0000

Hi,
I love your textile art. Beautiful work. My name is Vikki North and I’m a working California artist. There’s a couple artist on my blog that do textural pieces in oils and glasses that’s reminiscent of your pieces.

I’d like to invite you to come check out my blog and gallery site. Lots of other artist and some patrons respond. They’re an inspiration for many of my own painitngs.. Come visit.
Vikki
http://redchair-vikkisblog.blogspot.com/

and http://www.theredchairgallery.com/