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 | Jul 25, 2022 | Art Career, You and Your Art
A summer thunderstorm just blew in, and out, leaving my grey deck shiny-slick with rain. The air smells fresh with the charged ions that only a wild rain can summon. And I feel as if those invisible particles are beckoning me to take any small action...
by Ariane Goodwin PhD | Jul 19, 2022 | Artist Statements, You and Your Art
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...
by Ariane Goodwin PhD | Aug 27, 2020 | Artist Statements, Creative Resilience, Reflections
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...
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...
