When one considers a "Balancing Act" we imagine tightrope walkers hovering high above, or the precariously spinning knife blades of a juggler - one-then-two-then-three-then-. The idea of a balancing act illicits other responses for the working artist and arts professional.
There is no time of day that an artist is off the clock, making and ideas happen at anytime. For those balancing a teaching practice with their studio work, additional time is taken away from personal work. Many artists often consider the decisions of starting a family in what sort of art career they want.
This online resource was started in conjunction with a panel at the College Art Association 2014 National conference by Niku Kashef and Micol Hebron of the CAA Services for Artists Commitee. The purpose of our original panel discussion was to bring together artists who take "distractions" into their art practice and discuss the challenges they face. The panel included artists Kim Abeles, Lili Bernard, Tierney Gearon and Jamie McMurry; critic, curator and art historian Maria Elena Buszek, and art historian Jennie Klein.
Our contributors consider the hard questions and uncomfortable truths that multi-disciplinary artists have to answer in order to find balance when integrating social, studio and solo practices.
