by Ariane Goodwin PhD | Aug 1, 2022 | Art Career, smARTist resources
I’ve been hinting and hinting (or you could say “stalling and stalling”) as I worked and worked at something I had up my smARTist sleeve. Seems as if—even when you think it’s going to be simple—any project worth its grain of salt takes months to pull...
by Ariane Goodwin PhD | Aug 10, 2020 | Reflections, smARTist resources
I remember when my mother was dying. I was getting ready for my orals in graduate school and the one thing I couldn’t have imagined, since all mothers are invincible, is that my healthy, vivacious, 83-year-old, artist mother would die. Time stood still as the...
by Ariane Goodwin PhD | Jul 31, 2020 | Reflections, smARTist resources
I suspect this question is so deeply personal that it’s like a fingerprint: each of us will respond from the life conditions that have shaped each of us, and shape us still. There is strong folklore about the value of the suffering artist to her art; that dark...