Wordsmithing your Artist Statement+Bio with Chenoa Baker

Wordsmithing your Artist Statement+Bio with Chenoa Baker

Tuesday, January 30th (6-8pm) on Zoom

$40 CAA Member; $50 General Admission

Maximum number of attendees: 15

*If you are participating in our Portfolio Review in March, we recommend that you take this workshop as a part of your portfolio review preparation.

Wordsmithing, a craft-centered approach to writing, is what Chenoa Baker would like to impart for writing bios and artist statements. This virtual session will provide best practices tips and tricks as well as wordsmithing on personal bios and artist statements as a group. Join her and the 15 attendees where you can ask questions, receive support, and have an enriching time together. Please send in your bios and artist statements to Stephanie Todhunter at stodhunter@cambridgeart.org by Jan 23, 2024.

Image: courtesy of Alexandra Chiou, Dragon, from CAA's Art Rental Program

Chenoa Baker (she/her) is a curator, wordsmith, and descendant of self-emancipators. In addition to leading the exhibition program at ShowUp (previously Beacon Gallery), she worked on: Gio Swaby: Fresh Up at the Peabody Essex Museum; Simone Leigh at ICA/Boston; Simone Leigh; and Touching Roots: Black Ancestral Legacies in the Americas at MFA/Boston. Her autobiographical-style art criticism appears in Hyperallergic, Public Parking, Material Intelligence, Studio Potter, Boston Art Review, and Sixty Inches From Center among others.