So What’s On Your Plate?
I’ve decided to start another blog. It will be dedicated to interviews of artists that I admire, printmakers in particular. The objectives of the new site are as follows:
- First and foremost, to inspire and inform printmakers and potential printmakers
- Second, to provide exposure of the interviewed artists to an audience that may be interested in their artwork or services (galleries, buyers, and students)
- Third, to inform the public regarding printmaking
I’ve booked my first interview and am developing questions. There are two broad groups of questions: those that are common, asked of all of the artists interviewed, and those that are specifically related to an artist’s body of work.
The common questions need to be generic enough that all of the interviewees will have an answer, but interesting enough that the answers will not be uniform or dull.
So, in keeping with the first objective I’ve set out, I thought I’d ask those of you that are printmakers, “if you could ask one question of twenty printmakers that you admire, what would you want to know?”
Great idea. I always find other people’s stories fascinating and inspiring.
The question that usually comes to my mind is: how long did it take for this person to “get a handle” on their technique. How much time went by before they sat down one day and thought to themselves: I think I actually feel like I know what I’m doing and am not just fumbling around in the dark?
Or something along those lines.
Hi Katka and thanks! I’ll have to add something like that into my next interview.