Perfecting Your Artist Statement with Christine Palamidessi

This is a two-part workshop; the first session will be held on 10/16, 6:30-8:30pm; the second session will be held on 10/23, 6:30-8:30pm

Want expert help writing your artist statement?

Attendees of this two-part workshop will end up with a succinct Artist Statement that can be used on their website, as well as for gallery, grant and residency submissions. Attendees will work collectively, receiving back-and-forth feedback from other artists in the workshop, to define and crystalize the emotion and intent of their work.  There will be editing homework between sessions. You'll be doing independent work as well (with guided editing homework between sessions).

After registering for the workshop, please send the following to programs@cambridgeart.org, with "Artist Statement Workshop" in the subject line:

1. Your current Artist Statement

2. Ten images of your current work

Attendees are asked to bring their laptops to the workshop. Free wifi is available.

Maximum number of attendees: 15

About the instructor: Christine Palamidessi is an award-winning artist and professional writer who understands the visual-verbal conundrum artists may experience when confronting words and defining their work.  She is author of two novels, a book editor and was Professor of Writing at Boston University for 13 years before resuming her career as a visual artist. In 2017, she was a Visiting Artist at both The American Academy in Rome, and at Mass MoCA.

Palamidessi, who also has a degree in filmmaking, began her writing career in New York, where she covered the emerging video and independent film scene for the Village Voice, Interview and New Woman magazines and hung out with artists such as Basquiat, Warhol and Emile de Antonio. She earned a MA at the well-known Boston University Creative Writing program where she studied with Leslie Epstein, Sue Miller and Aharon Appelfeld.

She believes the writing process is less primal that the visual art process, and because of her practice and experience in both fields, she has keen insight into how a visual artist’s mind works.

Learn more at palamidessi.com