Qualitative Interviews for artists and art educators

Qualitative Interviews for artists and art educators

 Qualitative Interviews 


What were your early childhood influences in art? (Your parents, relatives, a special teacher) 
What is art? 
What art experiences did you have in primary school? 
When did you first get interested in art? 
What experiences did you have in art in secondary school? 
What was your professional training in art? 
Where and what was your first art teaching position? 
What level of subjects did you teach? 
How long have you been teaching? At this school? 
What degrees do you have? (BA, MA, ED. D) 
What art form is your specialty?
Did you get to study aboard? What? Where? 
What is your favorite art form? Why? 
What is your favorite theme or subject matter? 
Who is your favorite artist? Why? 
What type of students do you teach? Socioeconomic level? 
What problems do you face in your teaching? In your artmaking? 
How would you change your work? 
What are you most proud of in your curriculum?
How has your work changed in this semester/term? Over the years? 
What are your plans for the future? 
What else would you like to tell me about your artmaking? 

By excerpt: The Arizona State University Art Education Website

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The successful Artist’s Career Guide
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Finding your Way in the Business of Art by Margaret Poet

• What is your primary medium?
• What media are you interested in but have not yet tried(bookbinding, encaustic, puppet making, glass blowing, ukiyo-e, shibori, egg tempera, pop-up structures, animation, type designing, letter press printing, weaving…)?
• When you go to an art museum or look at art books, what are you drawn to?
• Are there time periods of art that you respond to especially? Which ones?
• Are there countries/cultures whose works inspire you particularly? Which ones?
• What artists do you like?
• What do you do extremely well, or what would you like to do extremely well?
• Have you ever been asked to do something because you were the ‘creative one’ that you liked and would like to do again? What was it?
• What things are you interested in outside of your artwork?
• What is a secret fun thing that you like to do but wouldn’t necessarily tell anyone about? (Nothing too deviant, please!)
• What was an experience that left you speechless with delight?
• Did you always want to be an artist?
• What training do you have and what paths did you follow to get to doing what you do?
• Do you have an art-making practice that is separate from what you do for a living?
• What do you balance the business of art with art-making?
• What is the most important piece of advice you would give to an aspiring artist?
• Do you find that your teaching informs your studio work?
• Where do you go, what do you do to get inspired?
• What keeps you motivated?

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