Kimberlee Koym-Murteira

Yeah.

So there's been a lot of different ways I've been using the community.

Most recently, I really enjoyed that, like, I get to know people even in the Bay Area who...

You know, like I might have known their work for a while, but I've never had a personal conversation with them.

And I will like be on a zoom and be like, Oh, I've known your work for a year.

So.

That's really been nice to have a chance to connect with people personally within my region, but also outside of the region is the biggest difference of just getting to know so many different artists and see what they're doing.

I see that two people had had this two-person show application that they were working on, and I was really impressed with how it looked and

That it gave me an idea of like, oh, maybe I want to do that in the future.

So I get a lot of ideas about who's applying for what and how they make the most successful outreach.

Yeah, so...

I connect with people a lot from like asking a question about an application that I'm doing.

I put a post on ask in the portal and people who I know and people who I don't know will like give me feedback.

on it.

Right.

And yeah.

And the most surprising thing is I thought my documentation was pretty good before network.

And that's also been a huge learning curve that I was like, Oh, wow.

My documentation, you know, could be much better, you know?

So I've gotten written feedback on my, my documents and then also, um,