Stephen Clawson - Self Portrait

CREATIVE FUTURE NICK NUTTALL

CREATIVE GOALS FOR THE NEXT 10 YEARS

v  I want to be capable of working with paint.

v  I want to write one feature length screenplay each year.

v  I want to write lots of poetry and have it published. At least three books by then.

v  I want to have written and published one novel.

v  I want “Society Supreme” to have at least one season under its belt.

v  I want to consistently experiment with the short film format.

HOW ARE YOU GOING TO ACHIEVE THESE GOALS

§  I need to be experimenting with short film beyond my video class, and to not be afraid of what I create.

§  I need to come up with a few more scripts, and make couple of clips to use in pitching “Society Supreme.” I need to find out how to break into television.

§  I need to practice writing traditionally.

§  I need to write more poetry, perfect past poems, and get published in newspapers or magazines.

§  Identify one feature length movie idea and work on it every day.

§  Take time on one day of each week to practice painting.

Creative Future - Clint Stevens

Creative Career Goal Plan


Within the next 10 years I want to:

1. Become a painter with my own unique style.
2. Interpret literature, movies, television shows, and music into large surreal/photorealistic paintings.
3. Photograph nature in new ways while working for the US Forest Service.
4. Get employed as a botany photographer, working for a Botanist.
5. Have art in various galleries.
6. Have a gallery show in Las Vegas NV.
7. Be selling all of my art.
8. Be commissioned to do portrait and figure paintings.
9. possibly become an art teacher.
10. I want to make people feel something for which they cannot describe with words but with art.





How:

1. Take a painting class.
2. Read more books including the Bible and Quran, watch old films, listen to old music, sketch more ideas, and make art from it.
3. Bring my camera everywhere, apply for positions in the US Forest Service, become employed, and learn how to develop film.
4. have a legitimate art studio with a dark room. Network within the Forest Service to connect with a botanist, apply to be a photographer and become employed.
5. Promote my art beyond Instagram, submit proposals to galleries that cater to my style of art, and go to various art galleries often.
6. Research art galleries in Las Vegas, submit art to galleries and go to them.
7. Start by creating an Etsy account to list my art on, research how other artists sell and distribute their work, and take entrepreneur and business courses.
8. Create an official website and advertise my work in a business format.
9. Depending on how the future unfolds, I may take teaching courses and pursue becoming an art teacher.
10. Travel, establish a support system with my family, and accept rejection with gratitude.



Action Item:

Research art galleries in Las Vegas NV:
* Performed Yahoo search for "art galleries in Las Vegas NV"
* First result took me to Localguides.com, outlining 243 art galleries around Las Vegas.
* Selected the following galleries to research:
a. Entertainment Galleries
b. Natural Wonders Gallery
c. Indian Soul Art (more than one.)
d. Art I Fact & Fantasy
* The Gallery that seemed most promising for my style out of those four:
well not really any of them, Entertainment Galleries and Art I Fact & Fantasy didn’t bring up much more than an address and a phone number. Natural Wonders Gallery is a fixed gallery of three photographers. Indian Soul art is actually a store that sells mass produced Native American art, jewelry and clothing. I did stumble upon the Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art and became humbled as to the competition I will have in Las Vegas, and how difficult that really is going to be.

Do It Again - Brandee Watters

Self-Portrait - Brandee Watters

So, I have the sound clip for this one as well...

Pictures of the process.

The end product.

Altered Perspective (redo)- Brandee Watters

I have a sound recording of the poem I wrote the first time. I just couldn't figure that out on here.

Creative Future - Elliott Bliss

What am I doing with my life?

A quest to progress

     The following are several creative goals I have placed for myself in order to achieve my dream of becoming a creative thinker, a creative influence, and most of all, a creative industrial designer.

Goals to be accomplished within 10 years

•   Receive an MFA in Products of Design

•   Never cease to be working on a project

•   Be working for an industrial design firm

•   Be involved in classes in order to learn new skills

•   Have a website with an up-to-date portfolio

Starting now, how will I get there?

•   Apply to BYU

•   Get into the industrial design program at BYU

•   Build a portfolio

•   Make connections

•   Faculty

•   Employers

•   Colleagues

•   Be honest and hardworking

•   Put more work into projects than my peers

•   Be innovative / think beyond

•   Constantly be looking for inspiration

•   Always accept offers and jobs

     The preceding list of goals and actions is my plan-of-action to successfully become an employed  industrial designer.  The most challenging part in achieving this, I believe, lies in securing a job at a design firm.  As long as I am actively engaged in my schooling and training, I believe I should be able to gain the skills required to get a job.  The other half of the battle is having the right connections.  As I attend college I will strive to make positive connections with my professors as well as my colleagues and employers.

     With these plans in place, I believe that if I put in the hard work, I will be able to achieve my dream of becoming an industrial designer.

Creative Future- Brandee Watters

Option 1: Make it as an Artist

{AI}- Apply at Dixie

{AI}- Start a cohesive body of work outside of school assignments.

1.       Graduate

2.       Go to Dixie

3.       Submit to gallery spaces

4.       Submit

5.       Submit

6.       Keep Submitting and working

Option 2: Start a Gallery

{AI}- Research gallery internships

{AI}- Apply for said internships

           

            In ten years I would like to definitely have a cohesive body of work. Ideally, at this point I would like to be working at a gallery or museum and looking into starting up my own gallery. In ten years I would like to have enough of a cliental to be making enough money to sustain my art. 

[AI] = Action Item

Altered Perspective- Brandee Watters

Unrecalled but, Remembered

Staring out her window- normal oft times.

Yet, creatures are crawling, climbing outside.

Scary nature these figures? Only sometimes.

Not frightened at all, she must now decide

To lie back down to sleep or jump and fly.

Adventure being her forte, verdict clear,

Glass pane she shatters up three stories high.

Wandering on the wind ‘til ground is near.

Friends of the darkness all circle about

To greet the young girl who can stand the light

Yet, chooses to roam when other pass out.

You see, the forgotten love a black night.

Who are these unrecalled spoken of?

They are fairies.

And dragons.

And nymphs.

And wizards.

And banshees.

And all things in touch with their magic.

However, most humans are not.

So, onward they trot.

Forgetting to look,

Tough reminded by books.

That spells and enchantments are real, if we ourselves can see.

Well, this girl could see the magic around

And oft times visited the lonely ones.

Once she had flitted down to the cold ground

She started her nightly journey, the run.

The ups and downs, flying, also swimming.

So much passion in so little action.

The journey with creatures just brimming.

However, this is all just abstraction.

The girl never left, not really.

Honestly, this may seem silly.

But a lucid dream is freeing

From the complex human feeling.

Walk the line- Brandee Watters

My first try...

My Redo of Walk the line...

Text Project- Brandee Watters

"What Will You Sacrifice?"

Personal Manifesto (round 2) - Brandee Watters

Manifesto:

A Checklist for creativity

Ø   Deconstruct every idea

Just to build it back up.

o   Throw your notes out

And start over often.

o   Know the rules;

Learn them well.

Then break them.

Ø   Revisit childhood.

Do childish things.

o   Redefine yourself

Script your life

The way it should be.

o   Inform your art

Take knowledge in

To grow upon.

Ø   Talk to everyone,

Including yourself.

Ø   Let content be your medium;

Be anti-genre.

o   But most of all live.

Don’t just have an existence,

Let your life become art.

stephen clawson - art as commodity

..This didn't work out too well..

Stephen Clawson - Text

Stephen Clawson - Creative Future

Creative Goals To Accomplish By Ten Years

·      Be making a living with my art

·      Have a studio

·      Be proficient in art production

·      Be connected around the country

·      Express emotion in my artwork  Through color, form and metaphor.

How?

·      By emailing people (most difficult part)

o   Dear John

o   Compliment or mention something positive about them, a thing they are doing that you like, or reference a previous conversation with them.

o   Present the purpose of the email.

o   Then determine how to keep the discussion going.

o   I will hold myself accountable to people like my wife so that they can make sure I do it.

·      Submitting to shows.

·      Practice and experiments

·      Surrounding myself with people that are better than me.

·      Get married (to an organized and responsible woman).

o   Hold fast to the iron rod and be kind and optimistic.

·      Continually studying color theory, design, the masters, and current issues.

o   Go to the library and buy cheap books on amazon.

·      Proper Budgeting

·      Be more confident in myself

·      Be humble.

·      Be friendly.

·      Attend gallery openings.

o   Be online looking for upcoming events.

o   Express my interest in attending to my associates so they can inform me of what they have heard.

Stephen Clawson - April Manifesto

April 21, 2015 Manifesto

·      I am for art with meaning.  I prefer not to use the term non-representational in my art, because if nothing is represented, there is no connection to mankind.  My art is representational; not of the physical but of the spiritual, not of my perception but of the viewers.

·      Think about it.  You have got to be constantly thinking.  Think about the significant and the mundane.  Often you will find great symbolic or metaphorical value in what may at first appear to be insignificant.

·      Listen.  Listen to those around you, often you will find fertile ground for new ideas when you explore the minds of different people.  Listen to nature and its patterns.

·      Be selfish.  Sacrifice for others, love and help them, but remember, You are an artist and the majority of society does not recognize the importance of your time in the studio.  Time you spend in the studio is not always seen by the outside world as “Crucial,” and consequently people will assume that you can sacrifice some of that time.  Do not succumb to their petitions.  Use judgment.  At times you will have to sacrifice some time for unexpected duties or responsibilities, but to neglect your passion and profession will only reap unhappiness.

·      Fall the right way.  Falling in an attempt to progress is still progression.

What is the most valuable thing I have learned about my creative process.

Working the metaphor and symbolism.  I have begun to realize the inherent value a certain object can have and its potential to represent meaning.