Professional Practices for Artists

This class is for artists of all mediums who already have a honed skill, but who aspire to make, install, and exhibit their art in a successful, interactive way.

This course includes proposal writing, critique, networking opportunities, and contemporary art lectures defining what installation is, breaking down different approaches – public art, earth works, 2-D, architecture, graffiti, projection, sound, performance, electronic, light, sculpture, and beyond.

Through open discussion, studio time, and lectures, students will learn how to write a successful installation proposal about their projects that they can submit to galleries, juried shows, grants, artist residencies, grad school, you name it.

The basic structure for this course will be an hour-long lecture, giving students some installation art history (in an effort to help open students' minds to new possibilities for their own art to evolve), with a diverse set of successful art proposals as examples. Following that, students will show their own artwork and learn how to put together a proposal specific to their goals as a working artist. This class is part show and tell, with time for students to work on their artist proposals, statements, resumes, and writing about their art. There will be time for the class to develop ideas for a space of their choosing with an opportunity to bounce ideas off the instructor and their peers. We will be having critiques for new work, pre-existing work, ideas, and proposals.

PLEASE NOTE: This is not a technical class! It is about idea building, and for people to take the medium that they already work in or understand, and have it evolve into something more interactive. This class is geared towards working artists, photographers, and designers who aspire to show at venues like PS1, the Venice Biennale, or the Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall.

Interested in more project examples? Check out students work from the class on our tumblr.

Instructor
Allison Maletz is a sound installation artist, photographer, and painter.  She teaches at Marymount Manhattan College and has recently exhibited her installation work in the Moscow Biennale. She received her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and her MFA from the Slade School of Fine Art, London.  She has also exhibited various mediums in the Liverpool Biennial, New Contemporaries UK, Zoo Art Italy, and The Royal Watercolor Society in London. You can view her work at www.allisonmaletz.com.

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