Alumni Opinion Intake Form | CVAD News & Views

Greetings!

Thank you for responding to my email and taking some time for CVAD. You may answer four questions; then we will use your quotes, contact information and images to create an alumni profile webpage in your name. As we share your opinions, your answers will help convey the importance of pursuing academic scholarship and mastery in art and design programs.

Thanks again. I appreciate your time and dedication to your profession and this project.

Sincerely,

Eric

Eric Ligon
Eric.Ligon@unt.edu
Professor, Communication Design, and Senior Associate Dean, Administrative Affairs

Next Steps: After submitting your text, please email your head-and-shoulders color portrait (selfies are fine) and up to five images about your work to CVAD.Marketing@unt.edu. Images should be at least 1080 x1080 pixels or larger. Please send placard information for your artwork or a description of the image for people who are blind or have low vision. Care to share a video? Send us your YouTube link. Should you have technical issues, please get in touch with Monica Scott at Monica.Scott@unt.edu.

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About You

Alum First Name *

Preferred Name

Alum Last Name *

Maiden Name or Name at Graduation *

Your Contact Information

Alum's preferred email address *

Your email address is for CVAD's use only and will not be shared.

Your website address or NA *

Your Instagram address or NA *

Your LinkedIn address or NA *

Your major

Undergrad Graduation Year from UNT *

Undergrad major at UNT *

Graduate-level Graduation Year from UNT *

Graduate major at UNT *

Your Opinions, Input

Question:1

Kindly choose one of the questions to provide your response.

1. Tell us about a defining moment in your professional career, or a particular moment in your career that meaningfully altered your trajectory?

2. What is the origin of the idea for your business; what is the backstory?

3. What is one of the wildest things you’ve experienced in your creative journey so far.

5. Looking back, what’s an important lesson you learned at a prior job or in college?

6. How does your brand or reputation diverge from the industry standard?

7. Imagining an idea is so exciting, but then comes the hard part – creating and executing. Too often, the execution part of the story is ignored, and the story goes from idea to success, skipping over the nitty, gritty details of execution or process. So, we’d really appreciate if you could share about your execution story – what did take a particular idea to final execution?

8. What is the most rewarding aspect of being a creative professional? Are you happy as a creative professional?

10. What are your thoughts about keeping art and design in school curricula in K-12 and in higher education?

Question:2

Please take a minute to introduce yourself to our readers. Can you tell us a bit about yourself? *

Question:3

Please select a general topic heading and then one of the questions to respond to.

Taking a Creative Risk

1.Has there been a point in your career that you took a risk that was scary?

2. What have you done in your career where you weren’t sure what the result of the outcome would be?

3. What would you do differently if you were starting a creative career today?

4. Can you tell us about a time you felt brave for making a creative decision?

The Rewards of Being a Creative

1. If you could go back, would you choose the same profession, specialty, etc.?

2. Tell us about the first dollar you earned as a creative.

3. Has there been a magical moment in your career at which you knew you had made the right decision to work in an arts- or design related field? Can you tell us about that moment?

The Value of Resilience and Business Thinking in an Art or Design Field

1. Have you made any sacrifices in your pursuit of a career in arts and/or design? Do you think they were worth it?

2. As a creative, where did you really learn your craft?

3. Any stories or insights that might help us understand how you’ve built such a strong reputation in your field?

4. Are there any sources of information (books, videos, websites, etc.) that have proved useful to you as you have forged your career?

5. We often hear about learning lessons – but, frequently, un-learning a lesson is just as important. Have you ever had to unlearn a lesson? Can you tell us that story?

The Creative Journey

4. Is there a mission driving your creative journey?

Question: 4

Choose the question you would like to respond to.

1. Was there a moment, class, or professor that has had a lasting impact on your career?

2. Did you participate in an internship or apprenticeship while you were in college? What lessons did you learn there that have proven helpful in your career?

3. Was there ever a moment in a critique or class that made you think you should just give up your art dreams and, if so, how did you get past that? Did that provide a lesson for your career?

4. Was there a course you did not want to take that changed the way you thought about the world?

5. Did you ever have any particular mentor in college?