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Surveying Arts Residencies Today: How to Make It Happen (Part 3)
Almost everyone I spoke with — and by "almost everyone," I mean "everyone" — agrees that arts residencies are a great leap forward for one's art career.
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Surveying Arts Residencies Today: How Residencies Can Help (Part 2)
If you're like most artists I know, you may not have done a residency, or you're wondering if it's even necessary to do one at all anymore. Here are some thoughts.
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Surveying Arts Residencies Today: Do They Still Matter? (Part 1)
LOS ANGELES — When I first moved to New York and began my career in the art world, I asked a number of successful artists for advice on my career. I had just begun showing in galleries and wanted to know their number one tip.
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Sarah Palin and the Arts in Alaska
CHICAGO — The LA Times reported on February 20 that there's been a bit of a kerfuffle about a public sculpture in Wasilla, Alaska, the town that will forever be associated with ex-mayor of Wasilla and former half-term governor Sarah Palin, though it turns out that the story has absolutely nothing to
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Artist Residencies in the Developing World
ZURICH — Is being an artist-in-residence in a third world country akin to being a participant on the Survivor television series? If visiting artists are left to fend for themselves in unknown territory, this may well be the case, however at what point does a residency in such an area need to step in
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Dispatch from Sheboygan: Week Three
On Wednesday evening at 6 pm CST I was standing in a domestic violence shelter introducing my project "Everyone We've Never Met from Memory and Imagination" to a group of about twenty women. They listened politely as I showed them drawings of people like Gene Simmons, Brittany Spears (Snarling, head
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Dispatch from Sheboygan: Week Two
Sheboygan, Wisconsin — Today marks the second week of my residency here in Sheboygan, a place which remains elusive to me. I have become familiar with the stretches of road between my cabin, the Arts Center and the Piggly Wiggly Supermarket on a highway named Business 28. I like going to the "Pig,"
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Dispatch From Sheboygan: On Memory
This morning I stood frozen in private terror facing a room full of smiling senior citizens with various stages of memory loss, feeling ill-prepared to ask them to draw someone who they had never actually met. That is the conceit of my memory-based drawing project, here on the sunny shores of Lake