Theme: Personal / collective identity in art.

We are learning a standardized method at FAA. How do we bring our own voice to our work after we leave the academy?

Is having a personal identity in our art something that happens by default, or is it something we have to actively create/work on?

What does it mean to you to include personal / collective identity in your art?

Theme: How do we create successful careers as artists while staying true to ourselves and without selling out?

We have two professional artists joining us to share their stories.

How do we as artists define relevancy?

Should artists aim for relevancy?

What does it mean when an artist says they want to be / should be relevant?

What is relevant / what are the trends / themes in art creation today?

How do we remain relevant without becoming part of an existing trend (if we don't want to be)?

Imagine you could go back in time to any era of the past. What era would you choose?

I’ve always imagined myself in Paris in the 1910s, attending Gertrude Stein’s Salons in her parlour on 27 rue de Fleurus. I’d be hobnobbing with Braque, Picasso, Matisse…. Or I’d like to be in New York City in the 1920s, with Dorothy Parker and her “vicious circle”, meeting at the Algonquin Hotel with writers, actors, art critics…