The Profitable Artist: Chapters 1 & 2 Question Responses

Chapter 1 & 2 questions:

Q1: What is your personal mission statement and vision statement for your long term career goals as an artist?

A1: My mission statement: To continue to develop my skills, knowledge, and interests as a visual artist

     Vision statement: To successfully show a series of paintings in a professional space within the next five years. 

Q2: What would be some issues an artist encounters during their environmental scan? What would they need to address?

     A2: Issues an artist could encounter when doing an environmental scan are taking record of everything they have in their inventory and the lack of familiarity artists could have with some financial, legal, and some business-related topics. The artists need to be willing to address every item in their inventory and even consider additional help in assisting them in their growth process. 

Q3: Define your SWOT analysis for your future (3 to 5 year) artistic goals. 
A3: 

Strengths: Ability to time manage affectively, technical abilities in painting and drawing, ability to work affectively with others, teaching abilities and wants to educate, affective writing, interests in speaking and organization, experience in proposal writing
Weaknesses: Finances, lack of skill with digital arts like video, further development in editing software and photography, further development in technical skills in visual arts, further development in teaching skills 
Opportunities: Development through the MUSE program, the resurgence in the interest of painting as visual imagery, current living location 
Threats: Shifts in taste for society/ popularity in medium of work, lack of finances, lack of opportunities because of location, lack of opportunities because of interests in teaching