Office Hours with Patricia Miranda
Is the conceptual framework of your work clearly visible?
After you create fabulous work, document it beautifully, and articulate language around it, making that vision clear and concrete is at the core of getting work out in the world.
I work with artists to help make the conceptual vision of the work clear to the audience. This includes in all information: portfolio, curation, statements, proposals, and website. I am rigorous and pragmatic. Together we develop practical flexible strategies and systems to support and promote your practice.
A consult often starts with a website analysis, as this is space where you have already curated and organized your work. This may include a critique of the work, an analysis of the curation, and a review of your texts. Together we go through your materials, and make a plan. We create simple systems for long and short term planning, designed for your individual practice. This includes strong artist statements, portfolios, and proposals to present the work in the clearest way possible, as well as systems for planning and goal setting.
I never edit on my own. Together we go through your texts and images, and discuss what is important to you. This includes clear and visible content, curation of images and information to best support the work. I utilize a clear step-by-step process designed to hone the language around your work. The process is an articulation and constructive tool for writing about your work in current and future statements.
The business side of being an artist is an ongoing challenge. Collaborating on administrative work preserves studio time, and helps move the work forward for next level venues and contexts.
We are artists not writers.
The core of a great statement is already present in most artists' existing texts. Together we find that core, and build and hone the statement into a tight, clear, concise document, essential for helping people see and understand your work. Artist statements are concrete descriptive documents about the work.
The argument that text is not good for the work is an argument against bad statements. A good artist statement deepens and articulates for the artist as well as the viewer. It doesn't explain, justify, or make claims for meaning. A bad statement can damage the work. A good statement supports it.
Grants + Proposals
Putting together proposals for exhibitions, grants, and other opportunities is a necessary part of the practice. This includes concise texts about the work and project, cv and bio, and most important, a strongly curated body of images, organized to best advocate for your work.
I have worked for over twenty years with artists on professional practice and development, through intensive semester-long courses in undergrad and seminars in graduate programs; individually and in community programs with working artists, and in individual office hours. In the Crit Lab I work with 50+ artists in rigorous monthly critique following a strong pedagogical structure. This has given me a wide and comprehensive perspective on work in every genre, and a strong process to support artists in making their conceptual ideas visible. A strong structure moves us forward with focus and dedication.
Office Hours: 1.75 hours: $275
All artists currently in any Labs (excludes AltMFA+Residency) receive a Lab discount.
See bookings for details.