Creative Future - Steven Stallings

I would like to make a living off of being a full time artist and musician. This semester, I started to experiment with how I can cross both of these realms of creative expression in my work. I'm attending BYU starting this summer, so I am very excited to continue my research while I'm there. I hope to make a lot of connections while attending the Y while getting into shows, self-publishing art books, composing a lot of music, and creating many art works including paintings, videos, installations, and Photos. By the time I am finished with BYU, I would have applied to some of the major art schools in the country to receive a Masters degree. These schools include Yale, Columbia, Juilliard, The Monk Institute, UCLA, Berkeley, Manhattan School of Music and as well as some others. Currently, my first choice is Columbia, and if I am accepted, I would move to New York City. While in NYC, I'd be able to study and collaborate with very fine artists and musicians. By then, I hope to have better fused the worlds of art and music. After getting a Masters, I plan on either living in NYC or Los Angeles where I'd try to "make it." By making it, I mean I would like to start showing in galleries, playing at venues, going on tours, and collaborating with artists and musicians who are all coming from different backgrounds. Eventually, I would get to the point where I'm leading and composing for my own experimental ensemble and be performing across the world on tours. Also, it would be my dream to have shows in venues such as MoMA in NYC, The Guggenheims, The New Museum, The Whitney, The Tates in England, the Gagosian Galleries, and other venues across the world. I would like to be a professor at a major University such as the ones I previously mentioned. At some point I'd have a retrospective at MoMA or some other major museum. I'll work until I pass away. This is my dream.