Your Artist Statement … Why Bother? 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 & 2. …
YOUR ARTIST STATEMENT… WHY BOTHER? Part 2
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...
YOUR ARTIST STATEMENT… WHY BOTHER? Part 1
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...
Announcing: (New) smARTist Telesummit Revival
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...
What happens when you give yourself permission?
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...
You are so much more than 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...