HOW TO WRITE AN ARTIST STATEMENT

Instructor: Liz Sales | Dates: Saturdays, December 5 & 12 | Time: 10AM - 1PM (ET)

Tuition: $293 (Members) $345 (Non-Members) | Class Size Max: 10

Your artist statement is a link between you and the rest of the world. This statement accompanies your visual work when you submit proposals to funders, cooperative galleries, or publishers. It may also be read aloud at speaking events, included in press releases, or used in exhibition texts. That is why you must know how to contextualize your work in words.

Whether you are starting from scratch or updating an existing statement, this course will give you the skills to clearly articulate your process and concepts both in the written word and in conversation. Through a presentation with examples, writing exercises, group conversations, one-on-one meetings, and a class critique, you will learn painless writing techniques for crafting clearly and creatively written artist statements and project statements from start to finish. By the end of this workshop, you will walk away with a well-written statement, as well as the tools and techniques to produce new statements in the future.

If you have any questions about this class, feel free to ask via email (elizabethjanesales@gmail.com) or schedule a 20-minute Zoom meeting with the instructor using this link.

Schedule

• Day 1: 3-hour live Zoom artist statement workshop session, including a presentation with examples, writing exercises designed to help you identify and articulate the concepts in your work, and a question-and-answer session.

• Between Classes: 30-minute one-on-one meetings with the instructor.

• Day 2: Class critique with your supportive fellow classmates focused on polishing your final artist statement.

• After classes: Access to presentation materials and exercises.

LIZ SALES is a photo-based artist, art-writer, and educator. She was an editor at Conveyor Magazine and has frequently published writing in Foam Magazine. She has been a faculty member at the City University of New York and the University of Connecticut and the International Center of Photography and is the author of the book I Write Artist Statements.