Do you know what it means to be part of a studio? What do you get to do as part of a studio?
Work collaboratively with peers.
Create and define a vision for work.
Make and keep promises.
Be Curious. What if? How might we? What's the real challenge? What can we?
Test. Make hypothesis statements and test them.
Learn. What did our tests show us?
Ship work. Make change happen.
A studio is the opposite of an institution:
Stay in your lane thinking.
We've always done it this way - "we don't want any of your new ideas."
Bureaucracy - red tape, procedures for the sake of it.
What doesn't fit, doesn't belong attitude.
There is no better feeling to approach your work as an artist in a studio. The freedom to try with the discipline to ship. That's the way I love to work, and it's the type of environment I try to build.
Why am I telling you this?
Because you can create a studio anywhere. You can create one in your home, in your practice, in your government job, in your college, or on your team.
A studio is not a big open space with bean bags where chaos happens. It's a mindset, an approach, and a posture towards your practice.