I used to be an astronomer full time and made art (mostly textile crafts) on the side. Then I stayed home as a parent full-time and did art on the side and that worked well with one and less well with two kiddos. Now my youngest is in school and I have part-time hours for my creative practice and that is excellent, but not the same as full-time or total freedom to go to residencies or shows. I really appreciated Making Your Life as an Artist by Andrew Simonet and how he presents strategies for making it work. He also legitimizes not doing your creative work as a full-time job, which is consistent with the working artists I know who spend more than half their time on business and admin.
I am so brain dead but like who I work with and for. But I have no space at the end of the day in my brain for creative work or time/$$ to rly invest in it. I feel like everything I could say has already been done. It feels like pandering at this point.
I used to be an astronomer full time and made art (mostly textile crafts) on the side. Then I stayed home as a parent full-time and did art on the side and that worked well with one and less well with two kiddos. Now my youngest is in school and I have part-time hours for my creative practice and that is excellent, but not the same as full-time or total freedom to go to residencies or shows. I really appreciated Making Your Life as an Artist by Andrew Simonet and how he presents strategies for making it work. He also legitimizes not doing your creative work as a full-time job, which is consistent with the working artists I know who spend more than half their time on business and admin.
I am so brain dead but like who I work with and for. But I have no space at the end of the day in my brain for creative work or time/$$ to rly invest in it. I feel like everything I could say has already been done. It feels like pandering at this point.