Artist to Artist Meeting:

Writing Your Artist Statement

Wednesday, February 25th, 4 - 5:30 pm

Join Monadnock Arts Alive and the Hannah Grimes Center and learn tips and tricks for composing your artist statement.

WHY? Why Why?! Why does a visual communicator need to write or speak verbally about their work? Honesty and directness, can that be daunting?

WHEN? Tailoring for the variety of situations and intended audiences for statements: exhibitions, galleries, applications for grants, residencies, graduate schools, interviews.

WHAT? Expectations for statements. What to include, what to leave out. Length. Framing of work in culture and community. Referencing sources.

HOW for the WHO! Finding your voice: easy strategies for developing statements that work for each artist such as reworking, redoing, interviewing, listening, sketching layouts.

AND FINALLY Getting down to it. Writing the statement.

Participants will leave with a rough draft of their statement in hand, along with a worksheet on how to developit!

Cost: free. Registration is appreciated.   

Rosemarie Bernardi, Professor of Art, Chair of Art Department, KSC - Professor Bernardi has exhibited nationally and internationally in over 200 solo and group exhibitions. Her prints and drawings are included in the many public collections including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Huntsville Museum of Art, the Nelson Atkins Museum, and the Bibliotheque Nationale de France. She has been awarded numerous grants and awards including a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a year long Roswell Museum and Art Center Residency, and five MacDowell Colony Residencies. 

She has received a Frans Masereel Centrum Printmaking Residency in Kasterlee, Belgium, a John Anson Kettredge Educational Fund Award, and numerous Faculty Research Grants fro the institutions where she has been tenured, Professor Bernardi has been an invited visiting artist across the country, including at such institutions as the California Institue of the Arts, Cranbrook Academy of Arts, Rhode Island School of Design, the University of Georgia, Kansas City Art Institute, Wellesley College, and the Universuty of Nebraska.

Currently Professor of Art and Chair of the Art Department at Keene State College where she teaches drawing and printmaking, Rosemarie has previously held tenured positions at the University of Arizona (where she was the coordinator of the Graduate and Undergrad Printmaking Program), and the University of Delaware. She holds a Master of Fine Arts Degree with an emphasis in Printmaking from the University of Cincinnati and a Bachelors in Fine Arts from St. Mary's College, Notre Dame.