Does the artist statement help you in selling your art? Besides vibing on Instagram, your artist statement improves the process for selling your art in 20 other places. When I stumbled upon artist statements it was 1992. The Internet was barely off breast feeding....
Here’s two things I know to be true about artist statements: An immediate, very human desire arises when someone is moved by your art: to know more about the person who moved them. Simple. Undeniable. …
Three More Rational Reasons To Not Write Your Artist Statement…or, Are they really “rational?” In Part 1, I wrote about seven core reasons artists use to rationalize away any need for an artist statement. And then we dove into the first four in Parts 1 & 2. …
PART 2: Peeling back the layers on …Four Rational Reasons To Not Write Your Artist Statement…or, Are they really “rational?” In Part 1, I wrote about seven core reasons artists use to rationalize away any need for an artist statement. And then we dove into the first...
Part 1: Four Rational Reasons To Not Write An Artist Statement When you hang around me, you will hear the following Origin Story a lot. It is the beginning of my quest, and it begins with a question…. Why Don’t Artists Want to Write Their Artist Statements? I stood on...
What on earth do I mean by “you are so much more than your art”? There’s a family story that my mother, a watercolor artist hanging with her Big Sur, bohemian crowd (think Man Ray, and the insolent Henry Miller), declared to the gaggle of male artists in...
This week has been challenging for my why, so I got to thinking about your why. Why do we do what we do? Why do you? Why do I? I sat at my kitchen table playing solitaire (clears my mind!) and thought about how I used to think our why was baked into our personality,...
I know, your artist-career palette is brimming over. There are sales to consider. How to be, and stay, connected to collectors. Where to show your work. The website updates that haven’t been dealt with. The studio that needs an overhaul. And goodness only knows,...
I wish I knew the answer. I have a few hunches from my decades of working with artists around the globe. But what I don’t know is what your reasons are. If I did, then I would be able to create a live workshop based around your specific needs. So, will you pretty...
I’m taking a breather after the mad rush of my Holiday Bonus, which I paired with a purchase of my book, Writing the Artist Statement: Revealing the True Spirit of Your Work. It was a roaring success and I want to thank everyone who jumped in! Now, my inner...
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