Artists friends and collaborators,
I found this article and thought it apropos to share.
The Myth of the Emerging Artist was written by a woman working on a collaborative Off-Off Broadway theatre production, and reflects on the myth that you're not a "real artist" until you have some sort of recognizable name or pockets full of dough...a down-right lie that we sometimes fall prey to. Her testament is convicting, I think, and personally comes along at a moment when I really needed to hear it.
If we approach our work with the mindset that we are ALREADY artists, we can achieve excellence, no matter how well "recognized" it may be. I fall into the trap all-too-often of thinking "I'm not good enough", "I need more education", "I'm not a Union actor yet, therefore I can't...". They're all pretty ludicrous statements that need to be banished from my brain. Because...look at what we're doing and what we've done? CAUSE is something. And we're going to keep making something excellent.
