How to Craft your Bio and Artist Statement

 
 Presented by:  Mary Anne Garcia & Delisa Clarke

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 About This Workshop:  Creating a strong artist statement is a critical part of introducing you and your creative practice to a larger audience. In this webinar, you will learn the basics of drafting a concise bio and artist statement that reflects your purpose or motive, the materials and medium in which you work, the subject of your work, and your own personal perspective or approach. Learn how to effectively communicate your bio for different audiences ranging from personal website or blogs to exhibition and proposals or grant applications. 

LEARNING OUTCOME:  

• Identify, create, and refine key elements of informative and illustrative personal narratives (your Artist Bio and Artist Statement) 

• Begin to identify key ways of communicating your creative practice in different contexts, to distinct audiences, or for specific purposes 

 Speaker Bios: 

Mary Anne (Mare) Garcia(she/her) is a Canadian Filipinx product/furniture designer and creative director behind Space Queen Studio - a Toronto-based home goods studio where cute 'n kitschy meets pop culture but with a succulent green twist. Garcia’s creative practice is guided by her fascination with building, experimentation, and material exploration. She is a recipient of COFO design’s inaugural design challenge, and an advocate of slow and ethical design. Her work looks to transform ordinary interactions through playfulness and movement. 

Delisa Clarke (she/her) is an aspiring set/interior designer raised in the spice isle of Grenada and currently residing in Toronto, Ontario. She holds an Architectural Technology Advanced Diploma from Humber College and is a recent graduate of OCAD University’s Environmental Design program – with a specialization in Interior Design. Her creative practice is informed by her passion for sustainability and smart technology. Considering the pandemic and the mental/physical obstacles it has heightened in our home environments, she hopes to solve these problems through thoughtful design and holistic integration of home infrastructure, space orientation and accessibility. In her downtime, she enjoys travelling, reading, listening to soca music, and (of course), watching historical movies and entertainment.  

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