Writing About Your Artwork (Online)

Artist Toolbox Series | This program is completed

10/6/2022-10/13/2022

7:00 PM-8:30 PM on Th

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10.00 USD

Writing About Your Artwork: Artist Toolbox Series Fall 2022
2 Thursdays, October 6 & 13, 7:00 - 8:30 PM

Artists can be less than enthusiastic when writing about their work. It may seem irrelevant, or unnecessary. And, of course, it’s often something they’re not as comfortable with – “My work speaks for itself!”

In this workshop, we’ll first go over why an artist may need to write about their work, who the audience might be, and how developing your communication skills around non-literary media can help your practice. Grammar, punctuation, and sentence structure will be covered on the first day as well.

In the second session, artists will come to class with their own statements, bios, and websites. We will explore methods for effectively writing and editing these specific texts. By the end of the second session, you will have new tools, perspectives, confidence, and edited personal materials you can use in your artistic career.

With Artist Lisa Goren

  • Pricing for the Artist Toolbox Series:

    • $10 per workshop OR

    • $20 for the bundle of all 3 workshops -- click here to register for the bundle (note: this bundle will no longer available after the first workshop has taken place)

    ** Please note: ACA will not be offering a member discount for this special workshop series

Goren, Lisa

Lisa Goren (she/her/hers) was born in California and raised in NYC. And yet she dreamed of Polar landscapes since she was in her teens. Her first trip took her to Antarctica where she was inspired and captivated by the landscape. Later travels to Iceland, Alaska, increased her love for the Polar Regions. Her watercolors show an unfamiliar landscape in a new light. By using vibrant colors and taking risks with different surfaces, she makes the viewer reevaluate their understanding of both these landscapes and their beliefs in the potential of the medium. Her works create questions about the nature of abstraction and our planet as many of her pieces are representations of unfamiliar, threatened terrains. Lisa’s work can be found in personal collections worldwide, from Australia to Iceland, and the United States. Her place on the 2013 Arctic Circle Residency was chronicled in an article she wrote for the New York Times (http://nyti.ms/1PAO5mr) and led her to her next phase of her Polar work. She had two pieces in “Gaia - Les femmes et l'ecologie” in Paris to coincide with the COP21 Climate talks. Recently, her Google Talk (http://bit.ly/lisagorengoogle) gave her a larger platform to discuss her travels, art, and the Polar regions. Lisa has been working out of Boston, Massachusetts for the past 25 years and is Vice-President of the National Association of Women Artists (Mass. Chapter). During the Pandemic, she is working on smaller paintings of Animals Taking Over during the Quarantine as well as portraits of health care workers (chosen to be in The Best Art Created by Washington Post Readers During the Pandemic by Washington Post).