First Tuesday of every month: gather at 6:45pm, presenter/topic at 7:00 PM
Join us for our monthly Artist's Meet-Up! Half of the sessions will be around practical topics that have been very popular among our artist and maker community such as: how to price your work, managing your social media, taxes, vendor booth setup and the like.
The other half of our meetings will be for attendees to listen to a professional artist share their work, process, and professional practice, and / or to have their works critiqued in a group setting led by a professional artist. Beyond that, this is a social event for us to support and meet one another while sharing creative ideas!
Photo by Bo Willse
Artist Circle: Tuesday, November 4th w/ Michael Bare
Michael will kick off the critique with a short discussion about Richard Diebenkorn’s 10 rules for painting:
1. Attempt what is not certain. Certainty may or may not come later. It may then be a valuable delusion.
2. The pretty, initial position which falls short of completeness is not to be valued – except as a stimulus for further moves.
3. DO search.
4. Use and respond to the initial fresh qualities but consider them absolutely expendable.
5. Don’t “discover” a subject – of any kind.
6. Somehow don’t be bored but if you must, use it in action. Use its destructive potential.
7. Mistakes can’t be erased but they move you from your present position.
8. Keep thinking about Pollyanna.
9. Tolerate chaos.
10. Be careful only in a perverse way.
Tune-Up: Tuesday, December 2nd
Artist Circle: Tuesday, January 6th w/ TBD guest
Artist Meet-up Program (Alternating Monthly)
We will alternate each month between the “Professional Tune-up” and “Artist Circle”. Depending on how things roll, we’ll adjust from there!
Professional Tune-Up
Manor Mill will invite a working artist/maker to share tips and tricks of how to be a successful independent artist or maker.
6:45 - Arrival & social time
7:00 - Presenter topic
7:45-8:00 - Wrap Up
Artist Circle (alternating month)
A working artist will facilitate a conversation around their art, and artists who are interested have an opportunity to share their work.
6:45 - Arrival, social time, & sign ups for critiques
7:00 - Artist talk
7:30-8:45 - Round robin and critique
9:00 - Wrap Up
Missed a meeting? We have everything posted on our past meetings page.
