it could be worse
I was talking with Lynn Whipple at the studio the other day about the life of the artist and we agreed that it's a tough existence. No idea where the next paycheck is coming from, no benefits, no one to tell us when to work or what to work on, no quality control guy or production managers. We live on faith that something will sell when we really need it to. It's a scary time to be an artist but it could be worse. I wanted to come up with a list, a pecking order of sorts, that ranks the performing and visual art types in order of respectable to not so much, the proviso is that money is attached somehow. With some help from Lynn, Matthew and Rachel Cornell. My apologies to the sign spinners: Artists
Art fair artists
Craft fair artists
Street musicians
Poets
Caricaturists
Mimes
Street poets
Balloon artists
Statue lady
Foamy cell phone costume person
Face painters
Clowns
Jugglers
That guy with all the cats
The other guy with all the parrots
Chinese production line copyists
Bikini hot dog girl
Sign spinners