The LYMMACS experience is a good one for me. I had to keep a sense of responsibility when it comes to doing my assigned tasks such as contacting an artist and setting up schedules for interviews.
Contacting the artist can be intimidating at first. However, it is also part of my duty to know the artist and to constantly update them on things like schedule, changes and updates, discussions within LYMMACS, and the questionnaires provided for them.
LYMMACS posts a “Featured Artist of the Month” and this helps the organization be active and gives the artists that we feature credit for their works at the same time. The artists that we interview share their past experiences on how they started and so on. LYMMACS ask them questions related to their specified crafts in the art field – questions like: “What is/are your inspiration(s)?”, “What motivated you into doing or continuing your works?”, “How did you come up with your ideas?”, etc.
This is an opportunity for me to know more about the artists and their fortes, experiences, advice for other artists, and many more by listening to everything they say. As a team, LYMMACS also learn how to grow as an artist from them. The experience I gain here comes from knowing them and learning how they apply real-life applications on their craft such as promoting their works, approaching business, making other people understand the art side, and many more.
In turn, we hope that being featured helps them grow as an artist. I see this as an opportunity for them to get noticed by businesses by advertising their products and services that they provide for the public. The role of LYMMACS is to inspire and help people who want to do art for a living and one such thing is by helping said artists get noticed for their works.
With the help of the artists we reach out to, this “Featured Artist of the Month” also serves as an inspiration for people. It gives aspiring and young artists out there someone to look up to which, in turn, motivates people that want to pursue art. This is just but a small cog in the hopefully ever-growing community of artists.
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