by Ariane Goodwin EdD | May 10, 2024 | Artist Statements, Selling Your Art, Your Creative Mindset
Let’s define our terms, shall we? Before spring planting, I like to pull out weeds first. Sometimes definitions need this too. Artist Statement: Weed pulling… what it’s not. It’s not: a bio, a resume, or a personal critique. Planting… Your Artist Statement is a...
by Ariane Goodwin EdD | Apr 5, 2024 | Artist Statements, Selling Your Art
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....
by Ariane Goodwin EdD | Jan 18, 2024 | Artist Statements
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. At the outset, an artist statement may be used for art patrons,...
by Ariane Goodwin EdD | Jan 16, 2024 | Artist Statements
PART 3: 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 &...
by Ariane Goodwin EdD | Jan 6, 2024 | Artist Statements
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...
by Ariane Goodwin EdD | Dec 22, 2023 | Artist Statements
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...
