The successful Artist’s Career Guide by Margaret Poet

The successful Artist’s Career Guide by Margaret Poet

​Interview questions by artists

​This post excerpts impressive questions from the book "The successful Artist’s Career Guide by Margaret Poet".

The successful Artist’s Career Guide
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?