Assignment: Personal Goals

Let’s get a good sense of each other and begin to explore the many exciting possibilities for the future. By linking your work to tangible real life goals it will be possible to construct portfolio(s) that are both meaningful and purpose driven. In this assignment you will, give some thought about, research, and report on your academic and/or professional goals. Please answer the following questions.

Post your answers to the blog using Google docs by Monday February 13th, 2012 11:59 pm Pacific Standard Time.

Please respond the following questions in detail, there should be no one word answers.

1) Describe a short term professional goal, something that you can get to
happen within the next six months, excluding graduation?

2) Do you plan to seek employment in a creative field upon graduation? If so
what are you thinking about? Do you have any ideas on where to look?

3) Are you considering graduate school in art, photography, or another related discipline? If yes, then what schools are you thinking about and what area? If not why not?

4) If you plan to enter another area of study for graduate school do you
have any ideas to how you might leverage your art/photographic education
within that field of study to further your success?

5) Are you interested freelance creative work? If so what type of work
interests you?

6) Are you interested in showing your work or the work of others in
galleries of Fine Art and/or alternative venues like coffee houses, online
galleries, ect.? If so, then do you have any ideas of where to start?

7) Generally speaking, does your current work relate to your professional
goals? If it does then explain how? If it does not, then how can we get it there?


8) Are you interested in obtaining an internship? If so then in what area?

9) Do you plan to take a year gap year or engage in adventure travel abroad?

10) Do you currently use any type social networking or content distribution
software? If so please list. If not why not?

11) Where do you see yourself professionally in five years?

12) Where do you see yourself professionally in ten years?

You must be prepared to present and/or talk about these topics in class.