2025 Career Day at the Elementary School

Career Day was a resounding success!

The students and staff were thrilled to see and learn about a vast number of professions. Each grade level visited three tables to learn about professions of interest.

I was pleased to have so many aspiring artists visit, ready with great questions. I split my table two separate ways: the artist who sells their work as originals, prints, and functional art and the artist who teaches others skillsets in various mediums. The students enjoyed playing with my art stone collection (see picture). I received a lovely stack of thank you cards with one thing they learned about being an artist and a picture of course.

The students loved learning about the art process. I gave the example of how I created my tea towels showing them the original watercolor and the finished product. But I also explained, in Layman's terms, the creative process...

• beginning with a watercolor;
• artwork scanning;
• using Photoshop to clean the edges, remove backgrounds, and create patterns;
• applying the artwork to specific products;
• building a website to showcase the product;
• writing the marketing;
• and creating the advertising to show the product.

I didn't go into all the nitty-gritty details of graphic design, entrepreneurship, market research, user interface and experience, and so on. That will be another day!

Each table was assigned two interns to help with the stamping of event passports, handing out art class flyers, and getting water. That was a lot of talking for two straight hours! I explained to the interns what an internship is, my experience with paid and unpaid internships, and the importance of doing work you love combined with the removal of payment barriers.