Would you say that you experience any special challenges being both a man and an artist? What are they? Send me your thoughts to ericmaisel@hotmail.com or comment on this post. I’d love to hear your thoughts!
Would you say that you experience any special challenges being both a man and an artist? What are they? Send me your thoughts to ericmaisel@hotmail.com or comment on this post. I’d love to hear your thoughts!
I think with all that’s going on right now with social injustice and the woman’s rights for equality, the pandemic. Makes it harder to sell product right now. I have yet to sell one piece this year and have advertised a lot of forums and platforms.
As a former barber/stylist, I’m used to working with mostly, if not all, women. I learned early on that we, men, are held to different standards than my female co-workers. To obtain a clientele, we had to dress better, cut better… just do everything better (or make it appear that way). This is a universal fact all over the country but that bar was set by Vidal Sassoon, Jose Eber, and the list goes on.
As an artist, there isn’t so much pressure to maintain a look, and have an all around eclectic personality. I’m also a felon and spent 2015-2018 incarcerated, continually working on my drawings. When I was released, I was handed so many opportunities it was overwhelming! So, I can’t really say I’ve encountered challenges except for deadlines and submissions. Let me make something clear, before I went to prison I was a “starving artist”. I couldn’t get my work out there to save my soul. I’d have to freelance or work crappy jobs and had no energy left at the end of the day to produce anything significant. Just like hairstyling, I feel a certain, higher, standard which is confusing because art is subjective. How do you rate it?