I get this asked of me all the time – why don’t you work in the arts?  Well, I do.  With the curating, consulting, WCA and my own painting, it’s a second fulltime job, I just don’t get paid for it – well except for the occasional sale of my non-political art.  My response to this art job question is that my day job as the executive assistant to a CEO keeps me in paint.  And it does.  I’m very lucky that I never have to think twice about the expense of my large canvases.  That simply would not be the case if I had a job in the arts.  I have a refrigerator magnet that says “I used to be an artist, but I didn’t like the starving part”.
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