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Bios and Statements and Resumes, Oh my!

Kristine Poole

"Well, young lady...Explain yourself.” I'm standing next to a sculpture in one of my first important solo shows. A collector had flown in to see this piece in person at the opening and decided to purchase it. A few days later, her husband came to town to see the work and wanted to meet me. Dressed in my best "artist attire," I show up an hour early and wait, trying to keep the butterflies in…

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Post Graduation Studies

Francis Vallejo

January 12, 2026 - Across the world, art students are graduating from their respective programs and entering the professional world. Congrats to you all! This post is for you. Some of you have jobs lined up. Awesome. Some of you are pursuing freelance or waiting to hear back from your job applications and all of a sudden have all this time on your hands. What to do? Well, 12 years ago I was a young artist freshly graduated looking to pursue freelance work. I had a lot of growing to do over the following years and made a ton of mistakes. But amidst all of this I did what I always do when I needed to advance my career: DRAW. The following images are a sample of the sketch pages I created the months following my graduation. These are…

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