Tag Archives: artist's statement writing

Too cool for school? Never.

By sarah | Published: March 19, 2010
As this week of free advice on artist’s statements comes to a close, here’s Two Things I’ve Learned: 1) Don’t give your work away for free (artists, writers, this means You); even if it’s for a nominal fee, your work must get valued. 2) Try not to treat your attempts at writing-to gain-clarity-and-objectivity as a [...]
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[#hashtag] Class Dismissed. Everyone gets an A for Effort. Well, Almost Everyone.

By sarah | Published: March 18, 2010
William Powhida makes transgressive, self-reflective, art; and his subjects are often people—or prevailing notions of—Power. Hence, I shouldn’t have been surprised last night when he suddenly called me out as conducting the most in-your-face, authoritarian, put-people-on-the-spot-to-give-a-right-answer #hashtagclass session that he’s seen yet. [Sorry, I have to paraphrase on the above; I was writing on my computer [...]
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Jerry Saltz stole my focus @hashtagclass; he wrote an artist’s statement faster than I did. (Updated 03/14)

By sarah | Published: March 12, 2010
[I just updated this post to include the statement I wrote—all the way at the bottom.-SS] Mild-mannered writer (that’s me) walks into Winkelman, looking for a willing/unsuspecting artist who will let me test out my ability to write an artist’s statement in under 15 minutes (in prep for my statement-writing event, next week). Enter, one [...]
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