What happens? Whether or not the partnership limps along on its dysfunctional path, barely making any progress or partners start pulling out of the program fed up with the perceived impossibility of their colleagues, everybody loses.
The following is a worst-case scenario: The afterschool arts program ceases to exist at a particular school in a particular [...]
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When a Partnership turns Sour…
Posted in artist practice, it could be worse, observation, teaching artist, tagged artist practice, everybody loses, partnership, sour, teaching artist, what is lost on 27 February 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Teachers: Gripes and Thanks.
Posted in it could be worse, observation, teaching artist, tagged gripes, teachers, thanks on 10 February 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Every so often, I am in partnership with a classroom teacher with whom, for whatever reason, collaboration is difficult, if not excruciating. Silly things like ego, territorialism, and lack of flexibility tend to make a promising collaboration something just short of a nightmare because not only must I manage a classroom full of kids, but [...]
Burnination.
Posted in artist practice, it could be worse, observation, performance, tagged application, burned out, hopeful, last stretch, proposal, sanguine on 7 September 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Wow. I never thought I’d be at the point in my practice when I could say that I am very tired of writing grant proposals. I have been so active in finding and applying for opportunities that it is difficult for me to see my own work well enough to write about it objectively anymore. [...]
Death of a Project.
Posted in artist practice, it could be worse, observation, tagged why can't there be three of me? on 21 June 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I am mourning the loss of a great project today.
My apologies to the seeds and their people.
Now is the Winter of My Discontent… again.
Posted in artist practice, it could be worse, observation, teaching artist, tagged American employee, art, begone winter!, discontent, getting paid, hairdo, horrible, money, on time, rent, teaching artist, The Recession on 21 March 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Holy crap. It is snowing again. Winter storm watch. Up to 8″ of wet, heavy snow. Proceed with caution when shoveling.
Yesterday was so lovely, a brisk, mid-40° day which I spent raking up dank fall leaves and errant dog turds in the garden, discovering that, yes! there is some green left [...]
Whose Art is it anyway?
Posted in artist practice, it could be worse, observation, teaching artist, tagged art, catch-22, paycheck, sustainability, teaching artist on 27 February 2008 | Leave a Comment »
On the long drive home from an inexplicably weighty day of teaching, I thought these things:
I teach the children to make the art to make the money to make the work to be an artist.
I must actively be making the art to earn the title of “teaching artist.”
When I am teaching so much that I [...]
Loonar eclipse of the heart.
Posted in artist practice, it could be worse, performance, tagged beer, grant proposal, lunar eclipse, money, sleep on 20 February 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I am losing my fondness for writing today due to this hopeful/insufferable grant proposal.
I read an entire kids’ book out loud en español, and I do not speak the language.
I finally got paid this afternoon. One down, ? to go.
Kalamazoo Porter is delicious (the ex-Bells’ beer famine is over!). Thank you.
This lunar eclipse was brilliant [...]
