This professional development and networking event brings together Arts Intensive students with arts professionals and provides students with information and contacts for considering multiple ways to further their arts interests beyond Stanford in practice, business, advocacy, etc. Art Is My Occupation is presented by the Stanford Art & Art History Department, Career Development Center, Institute for Diversity in the Arts, and Stanford Arts Institute. Art Is My Occupation empowers students to explore their personal and artistic identity, connects them to professional creatives and provides career guidance and resources.