Critique and Art Writing Workshop (one session)
Adult jumpstART Workshop | This program has been canceled
In this workshop you will have the opportunity to present artwork(s) (in any medium) previously made and engage in a critical dialogue with others regarding the development of your studio practice. This presents an opportunity to develop skills in articulating the direction and themes in your work and practice responding to questions that arise during our conversation. Conversations about the works’ connection to contemporary art history and practices will also be supported. The workshop will conclude with writing prompts and guidance so you can leave with a sense of how to write an artist statement and present your ideas to a broader audience.
This workshop is perfect for the person who has been making (a body of) work for some time and can see themselves applying for exhibition opportunities or the person who simply wants more feedback and context for their ideas and process.
What you will learn:
1. It’s an opportunity to help resolve technical and conceptual problems that you are facing in your art practice
2. Learn from the experience of the other students.
3. Discuss ideas about art concepts and theory; artistic movements; and artists that suit your own reality, and are relevant to your own artistic practice.
4. It will give you an opportunity to articulate the concepts in your artwork.
5. Learn about how to write an artist statement to apply for exhibition opportunities.
Alicia Link
Alicia Link is a multidisciplinary visual artist and educator whose work interrogates systems that restrict and limit our agency and understanding of our bodies. Working across object-making, painting, and performance, her practice privileges material experimentation and process as a means of engaging with embodied memory, labor, and the politics of value—both personal and cultural.
Link holds a BFA in Painting from Boston University and an MFA in Studio Art from the University of Texas at Austin. She has participated in residencies at Tiger Strikes Asteroid (Philadelphia, PA), Vermont Studio Center (Johnson, VT), and Officina Stamperia del Notaio (Tusa, Sicily). She’s exhibited nationally at venues including Space Heater Gallery (Brooklyn, NY), Roy G Biv Gallery (Columbus, OH), the Visual Arts Center (Austin, TX), and AUTOMAT (Philadelphia, PA). She currently teaches at Tyler School of Art and Architecture at Temple University and at Fleisher Art Memorial, and is a member of the collective Tiger Strikes Asteroid.