Part 4 Exercises

This is a collection of exercises for the entire group to be completed between the third and fourth meetings.

For The Fourth Meeting

1. Read the support material for Part 4 and write down any questions that arise for discussion in the fourth meeting.

2. Please review your answers to the questions discussed in Part 1.

   1. For the first two questions, has the list of things you said you wanted to achieve changed? Has it become clearer? Have you set goals and created a plan to meet the goals? In other words, do you have more certainty and confidence about both your work and yourself as an artist?
   2. In terms of the last three questions, have you achieved a satisfactory balance in your resource utilization, or a plan to achieve such?

   3. Do you still have outstanding issues around any of the questions? If so please let us know by return mail so we can prepare a response for the next meeting. 

   4. If you have any new questions or major issues for our consideration, send them ahead also.

3. Reflecting on what you have gained from this course, prepare a 15 minute (roughly) presentation covering the following points:

1. Where you are at the present and the events and discoveries that occurred since you started this course to bring you to this point.

2. Identify the issues that currently present challenges for you and a plan of how to address them.

3. Use work done since the last meeting to illustrate these points if you are able to.

4. A statement of where you see yourself heading and what your longer term goals might be.

4. Collect together and bring the pieces of work we discussed in the last meeting, to this meeting for review. Be prepared to talk about the changes you made, particularly if they resulted in new insight or changes to your working process. Be ready with further questions arising from what you did or attempted. If you have no work of this sort, bring a couple of other pieces that we haven't seen, for critique or discussion.

Closing Request

1. If you intend to be part of the next level of the program, please send us as comprehensive a list as possible, your concerns, the issues you want to address, the problems you want to work on, and anything related to program content or format.

2. One thing that would help us to go forward, would be if you could list a few things that stood out as being very good or helpful, both in terms of the material we covered and the format or presentation. Then, if you could list a few things you would change if you were running it - that is things you didn't like or you felt didn't work or wasted time. It will help us design more effective future courses and workshops. Good painting!