Jackie Battenfield Lecture

This was my first lecture of the semester that I attended and my first reaction that it was fairly informative and I enjoyed how excited she seemed. After I went to a few more in the semester, I could see why this lecture got much criticism. Battenfield wrote the book, "The Artist's Guide: How to Make a Living Doing What you Love." Her lecture was just a basic summary of her book and how things came to be for her. She did not show any of her work or give any new insight. Most of what she said was already clearly written out in her book. Not only that, but she seemed to go chapter by chapter through her lecture as well. I would have been more interested, I think, if she would have added more of a personal twist and discuss more of her work rather than simply talking about her paintings as foreign objects. Personally, I went to the lecture not looking for great details on how to make a living by selling art solely but by doing it as something on the side. I would have liked to hear more than just the struggle of her other work and kids. I felt like she was talking more about her personal struggles than the true struggles that came through her work. She did not mention much about the criticism she got from her work either and how she handled it. Maybe because it was more of a book lecture than a true artist lecture, everyone was automatically more disappointed because it wasn't truly about her personal inter-connection with creating and doing what she loved as her occupation.