Kursprogramm

How to Write an Artist Statement

Seminar mit Dr. Helen Adkins  

Beschreibung • Description

As a professional artist, it is not enough just to do art. You also essentially need good communication skills to promote your practice. Along with your portfolio, you should have a statement available at any time on your website but also as a hand-out for an exhibition, a gallery, or a competition, or just as information for an open studio.

To write about yourself is a painful task – after all, you are a visual artist and not an author. You will find, however, that the formulation of a statement is not only useful to others but also to yourself: it requires you to stand back and identify the common thread that runs through your work.

In the workshop, we will discuss the form and contents of an artist statement.

If you wish, you may bring your current statement (USB-stick; no longer than 1800 characters) and we will analyze it.

 

This course is held in English.

Dieses Angebot des bildungswerks wird mit Mitteln der Europäischen Union und des Landes Berlin im Rahmen des Europäischen Sozialfonds (ESF) gefördert. Diese Zuschüsse sind die Basis für niedrige Teilnahmegebühren und für die Dozent*innenhonorare. Daher muss jede/r Teilnehmer*in vor Beginn der Veranstaltung einige Angaben zur Person, zum Erwerbsstatus und zum Bildungsstand machen sowie der Verarbeitung der Daten zustimmen. Zur Evaluierung des Weiterbildungsangebots wird außerdem ein Multiple-Choice-Test durchgeführt. Ihre Daten unterliegen sämtlich dem Datenschutz und werden entpersonalisiert zur Erfüllung der Evaluierungs- und Berichtspflichten an die dafür zuständige ESF-Verwaltung weitergeleitet.
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This bildungswerk offer is funded by the European Union and the state of Berlin as part of the European Social Fund (ESF). These subsidies are the basis for low participation fees and for the lecturers' fees. For this reason, each participant must provide some personal details, employment status and level of education before the start of the event and consent to the processing of the data. A multiple-choice test is also carried out to evaluate the further education offer. All of your data is subject to data protection and will be forwarded to the responsible ESF administration in a depersonalized format to fulfil the evaluation and reporting obligations.