by Ariane Goodwin EdD | Jan 29, 2021 | Uncategorized
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...
by Ariane Goodwin EdD | Dec 30, 2020 | Uncategorized
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...
by Ariane Goodwin EdD | Dec 15, 2020 | Uncategorized
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...
by Ariane Goodwin EdD | Aug 27, 2020 | Uncategorized
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 EdD | Aug 10, 2020 | Uncategorized
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...
