Due Nov 18

Arts Project — Draft Statement

Important: ignore the due date in the upper right corner. Rather than a formal draft, I’m asking you to write two ¶s toward your draft statement over the next two weeks, due as part of the HW for weeks 11 & 12. Ultimately, those ¶s will be combined into a 500-word artist’s statement, turned in alongside your completed artwork. Think of this as the artist’s statement that accompanies a gallery showing, the conference program for a dance or dramatic performance, the author’s forward at the front of a book.

Whereas your project proposal aimed to get readers excited to fund a future plan, this artist’s statement should aim to whet the appetite of readers/viewers to appreciate an artwork that they are about to see for the first time.

What do you want them thinking about when they interact with your artwork? What insights will you make explicit? What secrets will you tease?

Here are some examples of the form:

• Theater programs from the ART:
  • Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet
  • Nice Fish
• Artist’s statements from exhibitions at the Seligmann Center (link)
• Symphonic program notes from the SFO:
  • Jawb, for string octet
  • Street Song, for symphonic brass