Workshop: Crafting Your Artist Statement

An artist statement is more than just a description of your work; it’s a window into your creative process, vision, and purpose. It sets the stage for how your audience will interpret and engage with your art. Whether you’re preparing for a gallery show, a grant application, or simply refining your artistic identity, a strong artist statement is essential.
Join writer and educator Christina Berke for a 90-minute live workshop that will explore the art of crafting a compelling artist statement. This session will cover the purpose of artist statements, look at artist statement samples, and generate ideas based on guiding questions. Participants will walk away with the start of a draft of their own artist statement. There will be time reserved for questions and optional sharing.

This session will be a workshop consisting of exercises led by the guest speaker. Attendees are expected to bring a notebook and writing implement. We ask that registrants be certain that they can attend this session and engage fully with their cameras on.

About Christina Berke

Christina Berke MFA M.Ed. is a Chilean-American writer and educator based in Los Angeles. She was the 2022 Katharine Bakeless Nason Contributor Award Recipient in Nonfiction at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. Her fiction manuscript based on her maternal family’s history living through the 1973 coup won Honorable Mention for the 2022 Miami Book Fair Emerging Writers Fellowship. A former Managing Editor for Black Mountain Institute’s award-winning literary magazine, Witness, she now reads memoir for Split Lip Magazine. Her writing has been supported by the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Bread Loaf, the Kenyon Review Teacher’s Workshop, VONA, Tin House and elsewhere. She’s been awarded residencies with Hedgebrook, Vermont Studio Center, Storyknife and Ragdale. A former middle school English teacher, Christina is an Adjunct Professor of English and teaches creative writing classes online and within her community.

Additional Information

Session Recording

This session will not be recorded.

Access & Accommodations

This session will be held online via Zoom. Closed captioning will be available throughout the presentation via the online platform.

To request additional accommodations for this event, please submit your request in writing on the event registration form. A Shiftworks staff member will follow up with you directly about your request. We will attempt to implement requests for reasonable accommodations to the best of our ability, but cannot guarantee that all requests will be met. Alternate accommodations may be suggested by staff. All requests must be made by Monday, November 4, 2024.

For any questions, please contact Ashley Anderson at ashley@shiftworkpgh.org.

Cancellation and Refunds

All sales are final unless the session is cancelled by Shiftworks. In the event of cancellation, registrants will be issued a refund for the full amount to their original form of payment.

Registration

Registration for this session is $20 per person; advance registration is required.

Scholarships are available for those needing assistance with cost of attendance. To request scholarship assistance, please contact Rachel Klipa at rachel@shiftworkspgh.org.

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