Professional Artist Resources- Resume and Statement
As we move into the professional practices part of this class, I want to give you some resource links for writing a resume and artist statement.
The college art association gives a good outline for a teaching application resume:
http://www.collegeart.org/guidelines/visartcv.html
Visual Artist Resume guidelines from Artist Trust:
http://www.artisttrust.org/pro_resources/prof_dev/resume
Guidelines or the artist statement:
http://www.artisttrust.org/pro_resources/prof_dev/artiststatement
Writing an artist statement can be a very subjective thing- and many artists resist it, but writing is a real and necessary element of survival for grants, exhibits, residencies, etc.
Here are some examples I consider to be strong, please find a statement and add a link to the comments for us to consider.
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Some artist's statements that I have stumbled upon and liked:
Tatana Kellner (Director of the Women's Studio Workshop) http://www.tatanakellner.com/statement.html
Paloma Barhough Bordas (one of my classmates form Carleton) http://palomabarhaughbordas.com/
here's one that i really liked. i found out a lot of the artists i look up to don't have a statement but tim does and i really look up to him.
tim roby- http://www.timroby.com/pages/statement.html
This is a grad from Cal State Long Beach that I stumbled across:
Jennifer Reifsneider
Forms and systems that fail in spite of (and sometimes because of) our efforts to maintain them are central elements in my artwork. Starting from these structures, I investigate ideas about perception, desire, and communication. Buddhist philosophies of nondualism, mindfulness, and self are significant influences, and compass points of trust, uncertainty, effort, and stillness guide my explorations. The resulting sculptures and installations are balancing acts: simple truths bared in barely perceptible forms, or wholes that are more than the sum of their parts inevitably falling back into pieces.
I am interested in relationships, and find rich content in cultural and mythical histories of common materials. Fiber materials and processes are especially meaningful in work that confronts the paradoxical nature of experience and memory. Materials can be so intimately wound into our daily lives they remain invisible. They can be complexly organized and stronger than steel, but still lack the independent, internal structure needed to be anything other than completely flaccid. Processes are simple, ancient, hand-worked manipulations of tension designed to control the threat of chaos, but a single stitch is a caught moment, sublime in its potential for infinite repetition. Using the interlocking, fractal nature of the stitch in this context, I look for the logic of beginnings, endings, and cause and effect.
here is one that is decent. I think it is good in what it describes, but I think she needs to explain why she likes those things.
http://www.absolutearts.com/portfolios/m/marthahayden/
It seems like alot of the artists that I like do not even have statements... frustrating.
-john