The entrepreneurial component of the MFA in Applied Craft and Design program was very appealing when applying to PNCA + OCAC. After studying psychology and unhappily working in the field, I finally admitted to myself that, instead, I wanted to work with my hands and create objects through a creative and thoughtful process. With this, I had also come to terms that I would probably be paying back student loans into my retirement years and living off a modest salary.
Having never taken a business class before, this component of the program is incredibly essential to my idea of a successful future. I want to be able to support myself with whatever I end up making, which, of course, is to be determined. I don't want what I've learned in this program to become a side-operation (maybe at first) but rather to be a full-time endeavor. I hope to learn how to develop my own unique image, how to market my work, how to write grants and proposals as well as where to find them, and whatever else I stumble upon in the course. I am interested in collaborating with others as soon as this year, and not necessarily other artists (can I call myself this yet?!).
Finding funds to travel and study is also an important aspect of my “successful future” that I am hoping to learn more about in this course. I imagine that by talking with the instructors/entrepreneurs as well as outside businesses I can get schooled on how they developed themselves as successful and ask for any suggestions they may have for getting started.
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