Becoming The Teacher You Wish You Had

Show Notes:

Episode 12: Welcome to this week’s episode of Art Is... a podcast for artists where Cindy Leung, ceramic artist and Artist-in-Residence at Belger Art Center, details her experience with the business side of art and unpacks her creative process. 

Cindy Leung received a BFA from Queens College and an MFA from the University of Florida. She highlights that while she gained a lot of technical skills during her education, she noticed major gaps when it came to marketing, networking, and selling. Now, as a teacher, Cindy hopes to change that pattern and encourages emerging artists to put themselves out there and build up their businesses early on. 

Cindy Leung’s current work explores themes of consumerism, colonization, and hybrid culture. She’s working mainly with silk, tea, and porcelain to express her journey as a native Hongkonger living in the US. Cindy talks about her experience with 3D ceramic printing and gets candid about the challenges that she’s faced being a beginner with that medium. 

Join Isotta on today’s episode as Cindy Leung discusses finding the right avenues for selling her art, becoming more flexible with how she talks about her work, and the story behind what she’s working on now.  

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Topics Covered:

Building up the courage to sell your art The vulnerability required for trying new a technology or medium What’s different about the next generation of artists Communicating effectively about your work Advice for the residency application process 

Guest Info:

Connect with Cindy Leung on Instagram, on her website, or via email at [email protected] 

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