I’ve written and performed works that are autobiographical (The Skype Show), and created installations that combine art and activism (The Female Playwright Project). Because You Are Good, the current piece I’m devising for the East Side Stories Festival, has been different; I am working in a biographical way with another person’s story. Someone I respect, with an important history, legacy, and future.
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I think every artist is a generative artist. Artists seem to have multiple abilities to make their art come alive and artists do need to be good at what they do. They also need to understand how entertainment and business works that also includes their craft. If they are bad at what they do, then they do it until it's good. So being her at CMU we need to enhance our artistic ability while also focusing on everything else to make sure we are a well rounded artist. So this freshman year. We've really focused on every aspect of theatre and what you have to do to be successful and understand art and it's new meaning. So this article is totally relatable to what I'm experiencing now and how I should continue to training. So every "artist" in the school of drama and cmu campus is a generalized artists whether they realize it or not.
This was a very powerful and very inspiring article, and what the author speaks about is something I aspire to achieve as an artist in my lifetime. I don't think being in theater is simply acting, directing, or designing. As artistic people, we're inclined to delve into all aspects of production because of our inclination to explore. I'm so glad that our school has given us drama students the opportunity to create things and become generative artists through weeks like Playground and devised pieces like Steubenville. I don't want to go into the profession and pigeon-hole myself into the job as a designer. I want to have the opportunity to create films, create written episodes, design crazy theater, just something that will help me along with my career and my future happiness. I don't think I'll be happy if I'm just doing one thing, and I'm not spreading the messages I want to have reach all the people that I can.
I like this term. I like this article. I think its a very interesting take on what it means to be an artist in general. I started to realize as I transitioned into a college arts career that being an artist is not always about focusing in a particular line of work. Being an artist is, in some cases, about putting forth your ideas through whatever creative avenue you personally desire/whatever avenue will best suit the message (or non-message) that you want to convey. It's also reassuring to see someone who works from this kind of perspective succeeding, because most articles which follow a similar structure end up with some kind of pessimistic advice about dropping out of art school and turning into a failing artist. More positivity in terms of being a successful artist isn't brought to the attention of arts students, and it instills a sense of fear for the future of our arts careers. Whether or not this influence is positive as it puts a fire under our butts or not is yet to be seen.
i like the fact that this artist has put a name on something that I'm sure many artist have felt or have achieved over the course of their lives. I always try to enhance my skills and learn to do new things. i think the fact that she says o go explore what we can do and create is powerful and i totally agree. Many of the worlds successful people are successful because they learned about many things outside of what they do. even if these skills were learned for pleasure or by force these artists and innovators made new things by learning as much as they could about the old things. in theatre this is very true, here at CMU we are required to know a lot about every discipline in the theatre and are required to take those before we move into what we want to do. even when i do what i want to do i often try to go do other things because n matter what something is, if you have too much of it then that is never a good thing.
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