So, How Do You Get Personal, Be Vulnerable, Be Real?
Ariane Goodwin, Ph.D. An Educator, Editor, Writer, and Art Career Coach who believes artists change the world! Part 1: Being Vulnerable The very nature of an effective artist statement is all about revealing the true spirit of your work. And there’s really no...
About Them & You Two Truths About Your Artist Statement
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 desire to know more about you: the person...
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...