New Assignment: Interview as Conversation

This new assignment is a little bit complicated. Please pay attention to the following details, and don't be afraid to ask for clarification.

1) You will work with one other classmate (randomly chosen). In the case of an odd number of students, one of the groups will have three instead of two members.

2) Compile a list of exactly 13 questions that have to do with being a young artist/designer in the year 2020. Formulate your questions to generate developed and nuanced responses, not questions that can be answered yes/no. This generally means you'll be getting into what I call "why territory". 

3) After revising your list of 13 questions, type them into a GoogleDoc shared with your partner. This should be completed by the end of today's class (Tuesday, February 11).

4) Now comes the fun part. Each group member will write detailed and specific responses to their own 13 questions. The length of each response is variable, of course. Shoot for between 5-10 sentences, but don't feel constrained if some of your responses are much longer. For instance, telling a story takes more ink than a typical non-narrative response. Each partner should choose a different font or font color to help differentiate the different voices of the different people responding. This is due at the start of class on Thursday, February 13.

5) Remove the initial questions from your GoogleDoc and start to "blend" your voices together. For instance: "I totally understand where you're coming from, Bernadette. My parents, like yours, never really understood why I needed to study art. At least you had the cool summer arts camp experiences. I really had nothing like that." Work together with your partner on the revising and editing. If you're doing it the correct way, you'll have things that you want to delete and things that you'll want to add. 

6) Write a brief bio for each respondent and include a photo of the two of you in dialogue.

Here's a list of potential interview questions, or rather, areas for questions from Artrepreneur. Some of them don't make much sense to an emerging artist like you (one without a collector base, for example).

We'll talk about formatting (two-column) on Thursday. 
The final written conversation is due Tuesday, February 18. Thursday, February 20.

Get to work. Have fun.

Questions: csmith@dcad.edu