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I have filled him with the Spirit of God, 
 with skill, ability and knowledge in 
all kinds of crafts.
Exodus 31:2-3

I've spent the last few weeks skimming through want ads on the the Craigslist.org job site under Art | Media | Design category. It's the same new and old listings each day asking for a long meni list of skills tons of experiences, software and programming to exotic ingredients like IT maintenance of servers, email marketing, editorial and writing skills or using Corel Draw software.

Then they offer $10-20 an hour pay. For a mere $20k a year they get three jobs filled by one person! A bargain job anyone sane soul would want in life.

Here is an actual post from the Craigslist.org job site under Art | Media | Design beyond all natural employment plausibility:

I am looking for a hungry, young, hip graphic designer. In college or fresh out. You need to be absolutely proficient in Adobe InDesign as well as Adobe Illustrator. You'll also need your own computer and software. I will need quick turnaround, small jobs within 24 hours. I can offer you approximately 10 hours a week at $20/hr. You might work 20% at my office and the rest you can do remotely. Please send your
Please don't email me unless you meet all of the requirements.
Thanks,
XXXXX

What is the standard for "HIP" and the age limit for young? How does one measure absolute proficiency in any software without a test? You use your own computer, and software which by the costs the "employee" about $900 for the Adobe Creative Suite. This is only one example of 100's of people, businesses and corporations not getting it about how creatives work, function and should be compensated.

What say you?

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I have filled him with the Spirit of God, 
with skill, ability and knowledge in
all kinds of crafts.
Exodus 31:2-3

Artists and Companies who seek to employ them

I posted this on Craigslist after weeks of searching ads, sending resumes and not hearing back from anyone. It's also for all the other inhuman classifieds and non-existant HR offices that rely on technology to find them employees. 

Everyday I read the various job posting from businesses and companies who want artists/graphics/web designers to work for them. You give an extensive grocery list of numerous, sometimes exotic ingredients needed to fulfill the tasks needed to run your business. You require degrees, experience of so many years, credentials, and proof of artistic ability. 

Really? You obviously don't know anything about how creative people live, move and breathe.
Did you ever once think that artistic and creative people don't fit in your tidy little boxed jobs that pay a pittance for the things you ask for? First of all you are asking far too much of one person to do your print design, multi-media projects and web design and programming.
You want ONE person to perform the work of at least THREE creative souls, and then pay them peanuts to jump and dance for their supper. Seriously, are you stuck in the middle age thinking that you are the Lord of the Manor and people are your subjective surfs?
As for all the graphic designers, artist, web people and anyone creative, you are selling yourself short by taking jobs from these JOB IN A BOX thinking companies. I know we all need income and work to stay afloat in this world especially with the economic challenges that our dear crumbling government has bestowed on us.
We sell ourselves short by being the square peg pushed into the convenient round circle of the corporate American dream to be an artist or designer. Then it chips away our creativity until we are just rats on a wheel. Really? Is this what you signed up for when you paid for your expensive degree - $10 - $20 an hour grinding away at a job where you are under appreciated and under paid?
Viewing the job search in the creative ads in Craigslist is like lending yourself for a torture chamber experiment.
I would rather work on a farm, in a grocery store or garden shop then to slave myself out to a company or business who wants to kill the Golden Goose -- the creativity inside me to create works they collect extraordinary dollars for and  never share.
I am tired of sending out resumes and never hearing back from these businesses that simply don't get people at all, especially creative people. It's not just the pay I am asking for its recognition for a gift that can't be licensed, degreed or used without the utmost respect and appreciation. So this being said, I don't want your job offers unless you can give that in return.
If you are likeminded, let me know! Perhaps we can educate the general public to the beauty of our gifts to this world that actually are meant to bring that giftedness out in everyone we meet, have contact with and know!
Creatively Yours,
Barbara B-A

"Art is an act of the soul, not the intellect. When we are dealing with people's dreams - their visions, really - we are in the realm of the sacred. We are involved with forces and energies larger than our own. We are engaged in a sacred transaction of which we know only a little: the shadow, not the shape."
― Julia Cameron

~~ I have filled him with the Spirit of God, with skill, ability and knowledge in all kinds of crafts. Exodus 31:2-3

Living a Creative Life

To live a creative life, you must lose your fear of being wrong. -Joseph Chilton Pearce

1976 Still Life

The first steps I took towards becoming a painter in art was taking classes by professional artists who made a living from their art. I chose against Art College or degrees, because I rarely saw any professor famous for their art. I did read about the artists who became great for their passion to paint, create and show their work simply because they had nothing else but that. Can you imagine that several of the greatest artists were rejected by schools of art?

During the years of learning to draw, mix colors and paint I copied other artworks, still life settings and practiced all the time wondering when it would simply just flow. Teachers gave instruction, but it was up to me to draw from that inner well of creative fires. Years of classes passed and fear of making mistakes took its toll. I would shrink sitting in front of blank canvases, fearful that I had no ideas or that it wouldn't turn out a masterpiece. I simply gave up art.

1998

Then a incredible time arose when living overseas. I met another artist who showed me how to break out of being a camera artist of perfection and make friends with mistakes and lessor works. We simply just worked on painting whatever came into our heads. The cloud of fear lifted and the flow now unclogged, trickled small works at first.  Just like priming a dry water pump takes some patience and and time, the flood of amazing art sprung into existence the more I worked my arts.

All fears set aside, mistakes were now blended into every painting created. I lost my fear of being wrong, lessor or a failure. I live the creative life in joy.



You can see my earlier works in this gallery which opened today:
http://barbara-beckazar.artistwebsites.com/art/all/amalgamarts+beginning+works/all

BINDING BOOKS...
My cousin once told me that anything you want to learn can be found in a book. So I did just that. I re-bound a book from a book on bookbinding. Now this devotional doesn't drop its pages, looks pretty cool, salvaged a good memory and gave joy in restoration.

I think I'll rebind again!

This is a link to the project Homemade Bookbinding

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I have filled him with the Spirit of God, 
 with skill, ability and knowledge in all 
kinds of crafts.
Exodus 31:2-3