Job Shadow

 For my job shadow, I went to Harry Jackson's art studio in Cody. I job shadowed his son Matt who is

now in charge of the gallery/studio since Harry is retired. When I got to the studio Matt showed me around

the behind the scenes stuff that most people don't get to visit when they come to see Harry's work. I had

already been exposed to some of this because, my mom is a former artist employee of Harry. (She painted

bronzes that Mr. Jackson had made.) Matt told me a little more background on Harry and all of the things

that there were to take inventory on, there were a lot! There's even more of Harry's work in his studio in

Italy. It was hard to believe that someone could produce so much art, and have so much talent and express it

all in only one life time. After we finished out tour of the place he took me to an office where he had been

photographing a number of Harry's paintings, sketches, charcoal drawings and every other kind of medium I

could think of. Matt was taking these photos so that he could upload them to a site, and people could see the

art without having to buy one of Harry's books, go to a museum or come to the studio. I had to crop the

images and straighten them so they looked professional. But, i also had to tag each photo so that Matt would

know, what portfolio the peice of art was from and what number he had assigned to it. I enjoyed it a lot

because, I got to see so many of Harry's peices that not very many people have ever seen. Like sketches in

his notebook from when he was in WWII, and even just doodles he did on drawing boards in his spare time.

I had an awesome experience and, I think it just set it in stone for me that I need to base my career off of art

because I know it's something I have a talent for and that will intrigue me for my whole life.