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Session: Entering the Void: Sustaining an Artistic Career in the Digital Age
The Peck Room, Commons, Yale Schwarzman Center
Yale Schwarzman Center, 168 Grove St., New Haven, CT 06520, United States
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You provide the topic we provide the table (and the meal). Sessions are peer-led gatherings (12+ people) where conversations generate collaborations and move ideas to action.
Because sets are limited, registrants will automatically be placed on the waitlist and will be notified via email to confirm their seat.
The recent preservation-driven removal of the Calder sculpture from the adjacent Hewitt Quadrangle creates an opportunity for discussion around the role of art in place making, history, and memory.
In this session, aspiring writers, musicians, visual artists, makers of film and television are invited to a frank conversation about the practical realities of making work—and making a living making work—in the digital economy. Join award-winning essayist and critic, William Deresiewicz to talk about the nitty-gritty of establishing yourself, career paths, self-management, and more.
Bill taught English at Yale and Columbia before becoming a full-time writer in 2008. His recent book, Death of the Artist, suggest that there is a new paradigm is emerging in the digital age, one that is changing our fundamental ideas about the nature of art and the role of the artist in society.
Come with questions and dreams.
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The Peck Room, Commons, Yale Schwarzman Center
Yale Schwarzman Center, 168 Grove St., New Haven, CT 06520, United States