I’ve met a couple of times this semester with Prof. Vaughn Wascovich, my professor for studio and seminar classes. He has had several artists, crafspeople and even an admissions advisor for a residencies.
At the beginning of the semester I was still floundering for my “IDEA.”
After our first meeting, Vaughn advised me that I can’t love/work both glass and ceramics, As Ron Swanson says,
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Never half ass one two things. Whole ass one thing.
He asked me about my future endeavors and like most graduates I said that I was interested in teaching at the collegiate level. He shared with me the stats for how difficult it will be to find a ceramics or glass job in a university.
It got me to thinking about what my dream job would be if I couldn’t pull of teaching at the college level. Put simply, the ideal job for myself and many women I know and have asked is to be a stay-at-home mom/housewife. This spawned several late nights of sketching in notebooks to creating a cohesive “thesis show.” Imagining the layout of the main gallery in the art building, I created a scene of what my final show would look like.
When sharing this information with Vaughn at our latest studio visit, he suggested that I speak with Prof. Emily Newman who specializes in art relating to feminism and antifeminism. I spoke at length to a few sociologists who made some great recommendations for books on the topic including, The Second Shift. I grad student in the sociology department said he’d share some vital books with me that would help me formulate and stand behind my ideas.
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