Getting your art out of the studio and in front of an audience forces you to grow in ways you can’t imagine, especially if you’re procrastinating about exhibiting someday.
Sherry Camhy’s fifteen suggestions for finding your path as an artist.
It is the singular genius of the Art Students League that the best possible training for an artist is to teach self-reliance.
“Learning to get comfortable with not knowing is one of the last stages of an artist’s development. That’s how you start to develop the habit of questioning and seeking, which can propel and sustain you outside the classroom.”
“I think the creative act is very different than the ability to perform a skill set. I think that individual choice is as distinctive as the human being who makes those choices.”
There is a school in New York City that is the very best art school one can find, and it’s not a school at all. The masters are all there to instruct you, though their voices are silent.
Four painters who completed the Art Students League’s Certificate Program in 2016 are exhibiting in the Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery through July 23, 2016.
“I returned to teach in the university system that failed me as an aspiring artist.”
The world of the university art department is another creature altogether from the independent art school.
The G.I. Bill created the circumstances that provoked searching questions about where and how best to educate artists.