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Visual Arts Professional Artist Interview, High School
Instructions
Your interview must be with an artist whose work you have seen and hopefully admire. The artist you select must be showing or selling their work professionally rather than a hobbyist. You may interview someone you know as long as you have seen work by this artist, but do not interview a family member.
If you see an artist’s work that interests you, speak to the gallery personnel and identify yourself as a VA student from DSA. Explain your assignment and ask them if they can put you in contact with the artist by phone, e-mail or web-site. Call or e-mail the artist and explain your assignment and ask them if they would be willing to answer some interview questions. If they agree, arrange to ask your interview questions verbally on the phone, in person, or via e-mail. Do not wait to do your interview until the end of the semester. It may take a few tries to locate an artist who is willing to participate.
Requirements
Write your interview in essay form; do not submit this list of questions.
Cover the following topics and questions in your essay:
Type your essay with your name and date at the top.
Title the essay “An Interview with ________”
Include the artist’s contact information (phone and/or e-mail)
Explain how you met or contacted this artist?
Describe the artist's general subject matter, style and media?
Required Questions:
1. How long have you been a working artist?
2. What media do you prefer?
3. Did you go to art school, if so where? Do you have graduate degrees?
4. When did you first become interested in art?
5. How did you get involved with a gallery? How do you show your work if not in galleries?
6. Where do you get your ideas for your art? Do you research, sketch from life etc?
7. What percentage of your income do you make from art?
8. How do you decide how much to charge for your art?
9. Do you have any advice for someone in high school who is studying art?
10. Where were you born? Where do you live now? Does the place you live influence your art?
11. Feel free to add any of your own questions.
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