This weeks lecture was given by Melinda Steffy. She mostly talked to us about starting business online, and selling our artwork. I had already heard of Etsy, the shops online for handmade goods, and have looked into it a couple times. I really can't imagine starting to sell my work now, and I don't think I'm going to consider it for a while. It just seems a little out of reach for the time being, there are too many assignments not enough time to make half a dozen of pieces of jewelry or whatnot. Yea, I understand she wasn't telling us to just go out and start selling things now, but by the time I decide to start selling I think Etsy will be outdated anyway.. That's just the nature of technology and the internet, everything is eventually obsolete.
Melinda also showed us some of her work, the fine art stuff I didn't mind, but the things on Etsy that she showed us felt more like an advertisement than anything, it actually made me a little uncomfortable. I understand that she was trying to explain to us how the whole thing worked, but I think she could have showed us any old site, and I only say that because she didnt show us any inside workings. I would have liked her to explain more about how the owner works the site, then telling us about the design features. A tutorial or just showing us what you see when its your own site, would have been great.
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13 years ago
i just went to a career panel discussion. i think the thing that our generation has to do is to make a website and or blog and advertise that somehow. it helps to get jobs in galleries too so you get the gist of the business side of things. then you start getting your friends in on it and sell their stuff online with yours. then you start sponsoring their work and other artists. prints, postcards etc are things to really get in on because they are usually cheap to make and you make editions/series so production is just part of the work.
ReplyDeletethis is what i got out of it besides the fact that i was the only undergrad in the whole building and that i was really uncomfortable with the fact that i was not shoving myself in these peoples faces trying to get a job.
we also need a class on prostitution so we can learn to sell our work.