images from me to you

I know, I'm on a posting spree today! As a class assignment last fall, maybe October, I had to list a 5 year plan. You list where you want to be in five years then work backwards each step to the present and small things you can do to be there. I need to redo mine because I achieved one of my 5-year goals in the next 6 months or so of writing this:

Teaching full-time in major city.

I had assumed I would start out part time, or one year position, or maybe full time in middle of nowheresville; instead I ended up in a 1+million city within a 4 hour drive of quite a few others: Detroit, Chicago, Louisville, all the C cit in Ohio.

How am I doing in the other areas?

Regular solo shows in established galleries in major cities. ---- I have had several group shows in the last year. I have a solo show to be confirmed at Herron in the Spring. I am applying for more shows, but I'm also working on a new body of work that will be easier to send/show.

Receive regular fellowships/ grants. ---- I have applied for some big ones, missed the deadlines on others, got turned down for one, got one from school for travel in the spring.

Have my work/shows reviewed in major art magazines. ---- Three of the group shows I've been in received a lot of press. I was interviewed in December of 06 on KPCC (Pasadena NPR) radio for a show I was in, it aired with interviews of Danny Devito and the curators of the show, ha! It was also reviewed for Flavorpill LA:

Meanwhile, conceptual conceits find room to flower in both Dylan Palmer's sculptural work and Flounder Lee's personal photographic archives.

This is from The Maine Campus:

Almost as if to contradict Kossy is artist Flounder Lee's work, "All My Photos." Lee presents every image taken over four years - sorted by year - as very small images. At first, the space between the images forms a maze-like pattern between blocks of color. Peering closer, however, reveals a series of miniature images in the order Lee took them.

"There's no editing," Grillo said, explaining how the images we see in photography are the results of vetting by the photographer, to select the "iconic image" that we recognize. Lee's work is a rejection of that, presenting every image Lee took in his attempts to find that elusive, perfect image.

"We get into the shoes of the photographer," Grillo said, "revealing the photographer's eye at the moment of their experience, rather than just one selected piece of it."

So now I need to update this with more 5 year goals and replace getting the job with getting tenure. What are your five year goals?