Nicholas Galanin

Um, I hope I can explain this right, but, um, and I'm paraphrasing immensely.

Like this is not exactly what he said, but I remember in the early days of my career I got to talk to Nicholas Galanin, another Tlingit artist who was like already like massive and established.

And I asked him like how did he know That he was going to, you know, quote, "make it" as an artist.

And he said something along the lines of, "I just knew." And I have found with artists who want to be artists and then who do make a career as an artist, they do have that innate sense in, just in themselves like, "This is going to work out.

You're gonna deliver.

Um, looking for the shows that have open calls and looking for the galleries that have open calls and also looking at the artists that I admired and looking at their resumes.

Um, it was like, for me it was looking at like Sonny Asu, looking at Nicholas Galanin, looking at the Boxleys, their resumes 'cause they're all on, on their websites.

And seeing-