be recognized as an artist

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Wow. This is EXCACTLY what i want to do, except maybe in a diffrent way than most people would think. Man, I want to become recognized just as good manga artist!

i go to art school… thus im an artist. boo yah

So I am interning this summer in California at the Headlands Center for the Arts just outside of San Francisco. It is sort of like an artist colony, with up to 20 resident artists at any time. I will pretty much be doing grunt work for the artists, but I’m so excited! I’ve never been to California, and I will be in an atmosphere conducive to creativeness. Right now I feel so creative and excited and alive, I just want to create beauty. This summer will be amazing. Oh, and my boyfriend refers to me as an artist. He doesn’t know that it’s a goal of mine, and when he says that it makes me feel validated. Someone besides myself recognizes me as an artist.

I think this goal is improperly worded for me, as what it really entails is having someone recognize me from my artwork and give me reassurance, rather than self recognition.
I don’t know if i’m entirely comfortable with the fact that i would rely so heavily on the opinion of others for my own validation, but, as popeye says-
i yam what i yam.

i hopefully have a large amount of work being published this semester in various campus publications, so i may complete this goal yet

is it possible to be an artist of art history?

This has always been one of my Necessary Poems (and I note that the book of poems it’s from, The Moon is Always Female, has never gone out of print since 1982. We all need to hear this goodness:

For the Young Who Want To

Talent is what they say
you have after the novel
is published and favorably
reviewed. Beforehand what
you have is a tedious
delusion, a hobby like knitting.

Work is what you have done
after the play is produced
and the audience claps.
Before that friends keep asking
when you are planning to go
out and get a job.

Genius is what they know you
had after the third volume
of remarkable poems. Earlier
they accuse you of withdrawing,
ask why you don’t have a baby,
call you a bum.

The reason people want M.F.A.’s,
take workshops with fancy names
when all you can really
learn is a few techniques,
typing instructions and some-
body else’s mannerisms

is that every artist lacks
a license to hang on the wall
like your optician, your vet
proving you may be a clumsy sadist
whose fillings fall into the stew
but you’re certified a dentist.

The real writer is one
who really writes. Talent
is an invention like phlogiston
after the fact of fire.
Work is its own cure. You have to
like it better than being loved.

Marge Piercy

Of course we love you too. But the recognition as an artist? You just step up and claim the title when you’re ready.
And the Chorus will nod and sing AMEN and ask what took you so long to own your power and pat you on the back and ask what you’re creating next and things.
yeah!

I do consider myself artistic, though I am always my biggest critic, and have very few “masterpieces” as a result. But I think if I create in quantity, I should have a better chance of finding things of true quality. I have been TRYING to make myself create at least one thing every day, though often, it REALLY takes me two days to generate a new thing. I have found cafepress.com as a fun place to display some of my creations-so this has become my landmark for myself…how many stores have I populated. I think once I have created a consistant “look” for my designs I may feel more comfortable in calling myself an “artist” because I’m a bit scattered-some designs are silly, some are technical illustrations—I would like to find the style most suiting of my abilities.