Questionnaire

1. Name, phone#, and e-mail
Joyce Mims; 903-24-7131; joycemims@yahoo.com

2. What's your major? What year will you graduate?
Photography, December 2011

3. Why did you choose a photography class (or photography as a major), and what do you hope to learn from school in general and this class specifically?
Has a major. I believe it would be fun. The work is relaxing. I am doing something that make me feel good. I hope to learn how to improve the skills I have learned in the past, to product excellent photographs.

4. What are your goals after graduation? Please list your goals in reverse order, starting fives years out, then three, two, one, and six months. medical photographer/ intern as a medical photographer

5. What artists, musicians, photographers, writers, movies, books have influenced you/your work?
Andy Warhol,/ Gordon Parks; John Legend, James Patterson, Walter Mosley

6. Where do you get information about current national and international events?
Shutterbug, Popular Photography, and other magazines I have read

7.Are there any important websites that you are referencing for art/photo competitions and/or information?
I usually find different websites in magazines I read

8. What museums and/or galleries have you been to in the past year?
Lamar County Historical, Amon Carter Museum, Kimbell Art Museum, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth

9. Have you had any photo projects and/or training in the past?
Yes, I completed Holga Workshop in Longview, Texas under the instructions of Danea Males and Tammy Cromer-Campbell, and a summer workshop using the Holga camera with the use of the darkroom under Chad

10. What is the value of art for the artist?
priceless

11. What is the value of art for the audience?
capturing their emotions, opening their eyes to reality or unreality, challenging their fears

12. Is photography a vocation or an avocation?
It is according to the individual. For me, vocation

13. What is your passion?
to be the best

14. What are you afraid of?/What makes you uncomfortable?
not being able to met my goals/