2022 is coming to end and it is time to look back and reflect on the year. Here is my 2022 year in review for my art! A lot has happened this year and I want to share it with you. This is a great time for you to reflect on your favourite memories of 2022 too!
My Art Goals for 2022
Post consistently to social media (5x a week to instagram, 3-4x to facebook, every day to Pinterest, twice a month to my email list, blog post 3-4x a month, YouTube 2x a month), TikTok weekly
Social media takes time. I recently started a tiktok - Jackie Partridge Art. I would like to try paid ads this year.
I decided to switch to posting to YouTube once a month this year as it is a ton of work and I am working full time as a teacher. I am still starting with tiktok -you can find me on -Jackie Partridge Art. I would like to do more next year.
Update: I did pretty well with this. Lots of life changes prevented me from posting as consistent as I would have liked to.
Excited to announce we are expecting our first child in May 2023!
Apply to art calls twice a month - I want to have more exhibitions this year!
I have been getting more exhibitions and artist grants since I have been consistently applying to art application calls.
I did well at applying to exhibitions and art calls and usually applied to 4 or so per month. As a result I had a lot more exhibitions this year!
I had a few big exhibitions this year and a couple of grants from Pat the Dog Theatre Company and Ontario Arts Council.
Spend time in nature for inspiration- I find this really helps with my art practice.
Once a month Gordie and I made it a habit of hiking, campinging or walking outside. I’ve taken lots of photos that I have shared on Instagram
We didn’t go outside hiking or camping as much as I wanted to but when we did we had a lot of fun.
Make consistent art sales- I would love my art to be my main source of income. I would like to match my current teaching income before the end of 2022. These are my current streams of revenue:
Art grants/awards and artist fees
Art workshops and coaching
Selling art teaching resources on Teachers Pay Teachers
Selling my original art
Selling my cyanotype prints on Society6
I did a lot better at making consistent sales with my art. I still have a ways to go but I am getting there and enjoying the journey!
My sales on my Teachers Pay Teachers have really improved. I did two holiday art markets that were successful and sold more art online this year!
Set boundaries for teaching for more work life balance- no work on Friday nights and Saturdays, no emails past 5pm, no marking on the weekend. No working camps.
This past summer I worked the month of July at a day camp at my school. I was very intentional not to start working on school stuff until the end of August so that I could have a break from school. Make art during school breaks- I plan on not working at camps this year so that I have more time to focus on my art and business.
I did well not working at camps this year which gave me more time to work on my art and I’m so happy with the progress I have made! I also did well not working on school stuff outside of school hours.
Make art each month- I want to get back to making art each month. It is something that I put off like exercising. I want to be able to prioritize both. - I have done better at this!
2022 Goals
Exercise 2x a week - rough in the winter but got better in the spring and for the rest of the year
Match my teaching salary in my art income
Purchase a Home
✅Have 5 exhibitions or publications - Kitchener Public Library two person exhibition, Cambridge Art Gallery Show.21, Art Comp in London, ON, Forest Spaces- Contact Photo Festival in Toronto, Moving Forward, Three Sisters Cultural Centre, St. Jacob’s, ON, INPRINT Exhibition, Button Factory Arts, Waterloo, ON.
Grow my mailing list by 500 people
Grow my YouTube to 500 subscribers
Have 200 products in my TPT store - this was a hard goal - I later changed it to 100 because that was more realistic - haha ✅
2022 Year in Review
Overall, 2022 was a great year. I worked as a teacher teaching my grade 5s who I had in Grade 4 and then I had some of them in my grade 4,5,6 class. I learned a lot about Montessori education from work. I took business courses and read a lot of business books.
Thank you so much for following on this journey. I appreciate you being here and supporting me along the way.
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