Social | November 15 #ArtistHotline Guest Chat: Strategies for Mid-Career Artists

Mid-career artists of all disciplines: join this month’s Guest Chat to learn about new opportunities and approaches to your arts career.

The words “emerging,” “mid-career,” and “established” can mean many different things, depending on context. Ultimately, as we discussed in Ask #ArtistHotline: Am I an “Emerging” Artist?, the labels you use to describe yourself are up to you. If you do consider yourself “mid-career,” or if you consider yourself “emerging,” but want to plan now for the next stage of your career, then you’ll want to join us for the #ArtistHotline Guest Chat on Wednesday, November 15, 2017. 

This monthly Artist Professional Development Day will be held live on Twitter from 11:00 AM – 4:00 PM EST. As part of the schedule for November’s #ArtistHotline, we’ll host a “Strategies for Mid-Career Artists″ Guest Chat. From 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM EST, we’ll hear from Guest Tweeters, Ella Boureau, writer and Awards Administrator at Lambda Literary, and James Everett Stanley, painter and Visual Arts Coordinator at Fine Arts Work Center. 

We’ll tackle questions like:

• What are opportunities and systems of support specifically available to mid-career artists?
• How do you define “success” at the mid-career stage?
• How can a mid-career status lend itself to risk-taking and experimentation for an artist?
• What are strategies for moving forward for mid-career artists who may feel stuck between “emerging” and “established?”

An #ArtistHotline Itinerary

Warm up your tweeting skills from 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM EST, when NYFA staff, partnering organizations, and individual artists will discuss a wide variety of arts career topics during the #ArtistHotline Open Chat. Then, from 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM EST, Boureau and Stanley will share advice and take questions during the “Strategies for Mid-Career Artists″ Guest Chat. During the last hour of the day, from 3:00 PM EST – 4:00 PM EST, Gabriella Calandro, NYFA’s Program Officer, Grants and Exhibitions, will share insider application tips during a “NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship Application Tips” Staff Q&A. 

The Open Chat, Guest Chat, and Staff Q&A all have one thing in common: just use the hashtag #ArtistHotline in each tweet to participate!

Guest Chat Bios

Ella Boureau, as the Awards Administrator at Lambda Literary, manages Lambda’s LGBTQ cash prizes including the Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist Prize. Boureau is a writer, editor, and events curator. A graduate of The New School and a 2013 Queer|Art|Mentorship alumnus, Boureau has long been active at the intersection of art and social justice. She founded and ran the online magazine and reading series In the Flesh for several years, an exploration of queerness as a desire for knowledge wedded to the erotic. Her writing has been featured in Guernica, Tin House, Slice Magazine, The Rumpus, Full Stop, Pretty Queer and Huffington Post, and her first play, Helps to Hate You a Little: A Lovestory, debuted at Dixon Place in Fall 2015. She is currently at work on a second play and will be co-curating a new reading series. Learn more about Boureau here.

Find Boureau tweeting @LambdaLiterary.

James Everett Stanley is the Visual Arts Coordinator of the Fellowship program at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA, the longest onsite residency available to emerging artists in the United States. The Work Center is honored to have launched in 2017 an additional month-long residency, the Stephen Pace Residency for mid-career painters. Stanley is also an artist whose work has been shown widely, including solo and group exhibitions at Freight & Volume Gallery, New York; Kinkead Contemporary, Los Angeles; Andrew Rafacz Gallery, Chicago; Frederic Snitzer Gallery Miami; and Mark Selwyn, Los Angeles. Stanley is an alumnus of the MFA program at Columbia University, as well as the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. He has been awarded a Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program fellowship and a fellowship from The Fine Arts Work Center. He is a faculty member at Brown University, and lives on Cape Cod. Learn more about Stanley here.

Find Stanley tweeting @FAWCCapeCod.

Inspired by the NYFA Source Hotline, #ArtistHotline is an initiative dedicated to creating an ongoing online conversation around the professional side of artistic practice. #ArtistHotline occurs on the third Wednesday of each month on Twitter. Our goal is to help artists discover the resources needed, online and off, to develop sustainable careers.

This initiative is supported by the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation.

Images, from top: Paul DeMuro (Fellow in Painting ‘15), detail, Other Sunny Side; courtesy Ella Boureau and James Everett Stanley