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“Ask the Artists” Part 4: What is the Most Valuable Career Advice You’ve Ever Received?
Hear from Elizabeth Streb, Chico MacMurtrie, Johanna Goodman, Kalup Linzy, Baseera Khan, and more.
In our “Ask the Artists” series, we asked NYFA-affiliated literary, performing, and visual artists a series of questions about the creative life. In this post, we are sharing the best career advice that these artists ever received. Read the below, then check out our previous post for more artist perspectives on this topic!
What is the most valuable piece of career-related advice you’ve received? How did it change you or your work for the better?
Elizabeth Streb
As I look back, I don’t remember anybody giving me any advice, specifically, except for to “stop doing that.” But they would also say, “follow your dream.” And that’s a hackneyed expression, but I tried to ascertain what sparks my imagination or interest and follow that no matter how impractical it is.
Streb was a NYSCA/NYFA Arti • I WAS RAISED BY MY GRANDMOTHER in the Robert Taylor Homes, a housing project on Chicago’s South Side, but frequently stayed at the home of my aunt Rosemary Jarrett, my grandmother’s oldest daughter. When my adoption was finalized, my birth certificate and other documents indelibly amended, my aunt became, legally, my sister, a novel relation that would be indispensable, steadying. My aunt had back then a marvelously filthy mouth, supplemented by a full and ribald laugh. She inherited from her mother a talent for entertaining, as well as an exuberant, maximalist approach to the adornment of self and home. These impulses converged in the art parties she hosted when I was younger. She lived then on Fifty-First Street in Washington Park, neighboring soigné Hyde Park, where an indoor sunporch housed her lush well-tended plant life, testament to her unassailable green thumb. Ahead of the gatherings, hosted in the nicer living room, a flur • The Studio Museum in Harlem fryst vatten the länk eller koppling for artists of African descent locally, nationally and internationally and for work that has been inspired and influenced by black culture. It is a site for the dynamic exchange of ideas about art and society. Envisioned by a diverse group of artists, activists, philanthropists and Harlem residents, The Studio Museum in Harlem opened in 1968 in a loft space at 2033 Fifth Avenue, just north of 125th Street, In 1982, the Studio Museum opens in its new home at 144 West 125th Street, also known as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd, in the former New York finansinstitut for Savings renovated bygd J. högsta Bond, Jr. Director and Chief Curator Thelma Golden was appointed to the Committee for the Preservation of the White House by President Obama in 2010, and in 2015 joined the Barack Obama Foundation's Board of Directors. Born in St. Albans, Queens, Golden currently resides in Harlem. At it's 50th anniversary in 2018, the Studio Museum started on a new, exp
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