Career Survey

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1. What is your specific discipline and media?

2. In your opinion, what are the three greatest barriers to getting a job in the arts? Please check your top three choices:

3. Do you feel your disability limits your access to the artistic community where you live?

3a. If so, how?

3b. Do you see any positive change happening?

4. Do you feel you've been properly and sufficiently trained relative to your non-disabled peers?

4a. Have you ever been discouraged from any programs?

4b. Are you trained in your craft?

4c. Are you currently in training?

5. Does your artistic work enhance your financial situation or hinder it?

5a. Are you nervous about getting paid/afraid it will have a negative impact on your benefits?

5b. Have you had 'consequences' of success (i.e., lost SSI benefits etc.)

6. Were you discouraged from pursuing your art by vocational or rehab organizations in your life?

6a. If so, what were you encouraged to do?

6b. Was the discouragement valid (i.e., are you having a hard time getting work/getting paid?)

7. Did you take part in a careers in the arts forum in your area?

7a. If so, what did you think?

7b. Did it bring about/ encourage collaboration in your artistic community?

8. Are you currently collaborating or part of an artistic community/ network of any kind?

9. Are you currently mentored or mentoring?

10. What do you think about disability culture? Do themes of disability surface in your work?

11. How do you handle marketing and promotion? Managing your arts "business"?

12. What resources do you use to find employment or opportunities in the arts? (i.e., list-serv's, websites, periodicals, classifieds, etc.)