Ariane Goodwin, Ph.D. An Educator, Author, and Editor who believes artists change the world! The first truth is about them—the people who see your art, the people who are moved by your art, and immediately have this very human...
10 Reasonable, Reliable Reasons to Relish Your Artist Statement And why paying attention to every one of them matters!
1. Because an artist statement affirms what you do, and by extension affirms you. And none of us can ever have too much affirmation. 2. Because an artist statement calls out for you to recognize the true faces of your deepest self: truth, beauty, and goodness. And...
The Slippery Slope of Artist Statements
When you’ve read as many truly awful artist statements as I have, it begins to dawn on you that maybe, just maybe, the problem is at the very beginning before sliding down the slippery slope of awfulness. What if accurately defining an artist statement was the first...
No more, no more, no more…
It was 2002. My book, Writing The Artist Statement: Revealing the True Spirit of Your Work had been published and I was flummoxed. How could I get it into your hands? Websites were just revving up on this new-fangled thing called the Internet, so I headed over to a...
When Technology Disappears and Your Kidney Meridians Follow Shortly Thereafter PART II
It turns out that my local Apple-approved repair shop couldn’t sell me a computer because Apple was “hoarding” their supplies. Even though I ordered three days after my computer died, Apple had an 8-week backlog. EIGHT weeks…no computer. At this point it’s late August...
When Technology Disappears and Your Kidney Meridians Follow Shortly Thereafter PART I
I have this pattern of disappearing and reappearing. You get emails from me, blog posts, a few events/products, and then I’m gone again. Is it my generation (growing up with kerosene lamps and candles, running cold water (no hot) instead of computers, cell phones and...
The Slippery Slope of Artist Statements
When you’ve read as many truly awful artist statements as I have, it begins to dawn on you that maybe, just maybe, the problem starts at the very beginning, before sliding down the slippery slope of awfulness. What if accurately defining an artist statement was the...
What do You do When Grief Takes Over?
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 nurse...
How Do You Stop Grief, Illness, or Loss From Upstaging Your Art? Should You?
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 times...
Part 2: Why the Power of Intention Gets Results
As I illuminated in Part 1, the power of intention is a simple, decades-old practice that blends the spiritual with the psychological and the practical. And then, there’s intention as a specific neurological landscape. What doesn’t get a lot of airtime is how bringing...
From writing the only book on Artist Statements to producing the only art-career conference for visual artists – smARTist – I’m deeply committed to pioneering programs that meet you on the corner of…
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