XPACE recently hosted a workshop on writing an Artist Statement. Here’s a brief summary of some do’s and don’ts to writing one. 1. There are two kinds of artist statements. (i) One that explains your overarching practice; and (ii) One that explains a specific work. 2. Statements should be about 300-500 words. (i) What “is” the …
This Illustrator (and some Photoshop!) workshop will teach you all of the “101” type things you need to know about these Adobe programs. Some specific things we’re going to cover is how to set up a document, shape manipulation, photo importing, image processing, what all those keyboard shortcuts do, document layout and more. This workshop is …
When: Saturday, February 4, 2012, 1:00pm until 5:00pmWhere: XPACE Cultural Centre, 58 Ossington Ave, Toronto. According to Wikipdia, an Artist Statement is…‘a text composed by an artist and intended to explain, justify, extend, and/or contextualize his or her body of work.’ But WHAT exactly makes a good or bad artist statement? And how does one write an …