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.