You don’t need a five-year plan, you need a horizon
How to break down the starving artist myths and give mindful support for blazing your own flexible, dependable path.
26 Oct 2015 12:00
Jess Pillmore
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Writing and Publishing
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Art lives in the unknown. It is a personal exploration of “what if…” And yet, that is not what most schools and business practices model. They demand knowns.
Schools provide training, which is the act of teaching methods that have been proven to work. Pressures felt by educators to produce “working artists” have forced experimentations out of their curriculum. Even students want to hear promises and see examples of snagging jobs right out of college because the debt is crippling.
Jess Pillmore is co-founder and artistic director of arts education company, Creatively Independent. Using
the performing arts towards self-efficacy, Jess has toured the past 20
years as an international guest artist, director/choreographer, singer/songwriter, sustainable artistry coach and published author.
Her book, Creatively Independent, was supported by
international best-seller Seth Godin and her provocative essay on
ageism in education appeared in Psychology Today.
