The City of Yellowknife holds a themed Heritage Art Competition each year. Last year I was honoured to have my piece selected for purchase by the City for their permanent collection.
This year the theme was immigration and I submitted a wool and tin sculpture called "Stasis".
I am very pleased to say that again the City has purchased my piece for their permanent collection and it will be on display at the Public Library.
Friday, March 1, 2013
New residency - at home!
After reading a lot of art bloggers talking about how hard it is to stay focussed on their art - especially as Spring approaches - my friend and fellow artist Pat Moore and I decided on a unique way to challenge ourselves. We have decided to participate in an arts residency - IN OUR OWN STUDIOS!
I can easily recall how motivated and focussed I was during last summer's residency in Alberta so I thought I would see if I could reproduce that - and in fact make it a habit. And, what better place to develop good habits than in your own studio!
Here are the "terms" we decided on:
I can easily recall how motivated and focussed I was during last summer's residency in Alberta so I thought I would see if I could reproduce that - and in fact make it a habit. And, what better place to develop good habits than in your own studio!
Here are the "terms" we decided on:
March 1- April 15
- Make a finished piece of art weekly
- Explore 1 new medium
- Produce 1-2 “showable” pieces by end of term
- Teach the others something new (or help them learn – ex links )
- Complete at least 1 series
- Diary daily on experience
- Make a plan for future learning/art experiences
- Produce work for sale
- Identify places to submit art for shows etc.
- Produce work for upcoming shows – AAS, Iceolation, HWSDA
- Create a joint project
Personal goals
- 6 felt art purses
- 6 ceramic pieces
- 6 silk art works
- Items for the following shows
- Iceolation
- YKARCC
- AAS
- HWSDA
- Grandmothers
- Create a master plan for shows
- Create a plan and timeline for hard/soft body of work and start on 2 pieces
- Create marketing/promotional plan and pieces
- Create residency plan
- Figure out how to link/use blogs/twitter/facebook better
- Finish 6 “left over” projects.
- Attend all arts mentoring/crit training sessions
So what do you think? Doable? We'll see - I am up for the challenge! I will be posting progress updates daily on my studio blog....and posting completed pieces here - stay tuned.
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