Mierle Ukeles: Letter to a young artist

In the summer of 2005, artonpaper magazine published a special issue titled "Letters to a Young Artist," inspired by Rainer Maria Rilke's "Letters to a Young Poet." It included a collection of twelve letters by established artists written in response to a letter from a fictional "young artist" - a recent art school graduate who is struggling with the moral and practical implications of being an artist in New York City.