Artist Teachers Group: February Meeting

Are you an artist and an educator who needs to make more time for your own creative practice? Feeling isolated as a teacher or instructor? Spending all of your energy facilitating other peoples’ work? This is the group for you! Meet with others in your field monthly to crit each other’s work, take creative workshops, exhibit and share peer support regarding what it means to be a teacher and an artist. No need to register … just show up! Facilitated by Dawn Knight.

At our next meeting, we will be:

1. Beginning with a brief (and fun) art-making activity - TBA.

2. In preparation for this meeting, members (especially those who missed last meeting) are asked to continue to reflect on the following four questions:

What themes/issues are you interested in/currently exploring through your artwork?

What big questions/ideas intrigue you?

What is working for you? What is challenging?

Where are you going next?

3. Members will share a work for a guided critique – it can be a work in progress, or a finished piece. We are currently working on a show for June, called Rock/Paper/Scissors – so works for the show should connect in some way to that (very open) theme. Artists are welcome to use it as a starting point, or just link their own work to this theme in some way.

4. We will have a brief talk about artist statements – in order to begin thinking about the ways we might speak about the ideas, processes, and work we are pursuing.

5. We will also be planning our first studio visit for March!