“Emerging artist…”

At what point to we switch from “emerging artist” to “professional artist”.

Who decides? Do we need to meet a particular financial hurdle, academic degree, number of sales, years of expertise?

Are we not all in constant learning and pivoting in our artistic expression? I call myself emerging for now as I still feel quite the novice in some areas. I don’t have the confidence to claim myself an artist when amongst other long-time artists.

As I “emerge”, I hope you’ll follow along and enjoy the continuation of my artistic expression.