Patti Johnson

You're listening to the Art Problems Podcast, episode 106.

I'm your host, Patti Johnson.

This is the podcast where we talk about how to get more shows, grants, and residencies.

And today on the show, we have NEPHRC member, Maggie Hinders.

Maggie, welcome to the show.

Well, it's very great to see you here.

Now, I invited you here this week because last week you talked about your experience in network and I wanted to have you on because I thought that that

experience was just so nice for me to hear that it would be nice for other people to hear too.

And I think what brought it on was the assessment.

For those of you just learning about it, it's a survey tool and report designed to help artists identify exactly where they are in their career.

I just did a podcast talking about the assessment last week.

So if listeners, you haven't heard it, I encourage you to go back and listen to it.

And Maggie, I wondered if you could talk about your experience with the assessment, because that's something that William Bajira and I have been working on for close to two years.

And I think like just for our listeners here, the Over 55 Collective is a small sort of subgroup that we have inside the Netflix membership for members who are over 55.

And the Crick Group, I believe, is something that Chris Moss runs, and that is about getting feedback on your work.

So there are a lot of different ways that you can engage in the community.

And it sounds like you're saying that the way that you use the Netflix membership primarily has been to connect with other artists.

So I want to explain to our listeners that we actually named the assessment.

It's called the Network Navigator.

And part of the reason we developed it was that while most artists have a lot of missing knowledge when it comes to career building, if you receive all of that information at once, it might be worse than not having it at all.