“I know that a private school, our education is expensive and I wanna make sure that I’m maximizing the dollars being here. So I did not take any non-art classes at SCAD.”
“You either get a master’s degree for one of two reasons. Either 1, because you need your terminal degree and you wanna be a professor or 2 because you want to utilize your master’s program to launch your career.”
“My name is Stephanie Brown and I’m a full-time artist. I pay my bills with my art practice. That has always been the goal.”
“I started coming up with rules for myself, like one art residency a year, at least two exhibitions a year. Different things to ensure that … if I met you on whatever day I could say I’m an exhibiting artist.”
“This is how people do it. This is how I can be an artist and not be drained. Like just the commute alone kills you.”
“I can tell you about artwork that I’ve done (with) $10,000 budgets, $5,000 budgets, $50,000 budgets. I had to manage all of that for myself and my art practice. And these are the transferable skills that a lot of artists don’t realize they have.”