Based on years of teaching college art students, Ellen Schön’s passion for teaching critique as an essential part of the creative process has only grown. Join Schön as she guides us through her philosophy and essential practices of looking, describing, and responding to what a piece evokes. Schön characterizes the goal of critique as “learning to look and looking to learn.”
What are your rights and legal obligations as an artist?
What do you need to know about copyrights, contracts, commissions, and consignments with galleries?
What are your precise legal liabilities?
These and other artists’ rights issues will be discussed by Nicholas M. O'Donnell at our second professional workshop.
A Los Angeles-based consultant for artists and arts organizations, Beth Pickens, will lead the NAA’s January 27 professional development workshop. She is the author of Make Your Art No Matter What: Moving Beyond Creative Hurdles (2021, Chronicle Books) and Your Art Will Save Your Life (2018, Feminist Press).
Demystifying the Business of Art is the subject of the NAA’s first professional workshop of the year led by Susan Kurtzman, owner of JOBI POTTERY & Truro Fine Art Gallery in Truro. A former museum curator, Kurtzman is both a ceramics designer and a business owner, with a 20-year background in direct marketing advertising in […]
Forming a virtual critique group is an invaluable way to get together and share our work. Myra Abelson & Chippa Martin have been co-hosting NAA critique meetings for many years and have also been part of a small critique group that meets monthly. They will lead this workshop that is designed to help others understand […]
Christine O'Donnell presents our third professional workshop. Christine will provide a generous peek behind the curtain of working with a gallerist. Learn some best practices to use when prospecting or working with a gallery, as well as some good ways to jump into the art world and start showing more. Make sure to bring your […]
Come and learn from Christine O’Donnell, through her knowledge as a gallery owner and appraiser, in how to ensure that your creative enterprises do not go to (physical or digital) waste. From disorganized spaces on and offline, poorly framed works, acid burns on paper, to poorly shot digital photographs, this workshop will discuss it all...
Join Beacon Gallery owner and International Society of Appraisers member Christine O’Donnell for this first of four workshops. In this workshop, participants will have the opportunity to delve into one of the most difficult questions regarding art (beyond making it, of course!) - how to price one’s work. Christine will present various strategies an artist […]
