Artist Roundtable
Artist Roundtable
Online artist support group designed to nurture and support your inner voice so you can represent it through your artwork
LAY THE GROUND WORK AND GATHER THE PIECES TO CREATE A BODY OF WORK
Find Your Muse And What Matters To YOU Most!
Are You struggling to create a cohesive body of work?
Join me and a group of your peers on an intimate journey as we dive deep into your art making process and discover source material, ideas and what you want to communicate in your work.
Artist Roundtable
Making art in a vacuum can be hard. This group will provide peer-to-peer feedback, support and assignments to help you discover ideas and dig up source materials to fuel a new body of work. Focusing your art making practice can be daunting. Many artist are multipassioante about so many causes and topics, it can be hard to focus your work and your mind to just one thing. It's also common for art makers to think no one wants to hear what they have to say. This is when the group becomes so important. Having a group of fellow artists listening and cheering you on is invaluable!
Assignments and prompts will be given to help you discover your voice and your style. Coming together for monthly meetings, supporting each other and hearing what your peers are struggling with will ignite and inspire your art making practice.
Whats included….
Monthly group on-line video calls, assignments and prompts will be given to help discover your voice and your message or story. Coming together for monthly meetings, receiving private attention and supporting each other by hearing what your peers are struggling with will ignite and inspire your art making practice.
Learn To Use Your Voice.
You are your client's and customer's teacher. Watching an artist give a talk can open a whole new world for your viewer. It can move a person from being a casual viewer to being able to relate to the work and understand the story and/or process behind the art. It's not always obvious what artwork is about. Teaching and informing the viewer can give them a richer experience when viewing your work. They may relate to it in a whole new way and have a completely different relationship with you and your work than if they are simply giving it a passing glance. This just might be what your viewer needs to be able to choose you for that show, publication, or purchase.
Group Call Topics will Include…
Rules and the Basics
Artist Inspiration
Content Research
Crafting Your Story
Create
Plan Your Path and Map your Future
Details
Roundtable calls will be 2 hours once a month. You will be expected to attend all meetings… your peers are relying on you!
Options to add private coaching sessions.
Downloadable worksheets will be provided with prompts and assignments.
You will have access to a recording of your individual group call so that you can go back and listen again. Sometimes we don't hear everything the first time round.
Roundtable Application Guidelines
Group members will be selected after a brief interview. Artist will be chosen based on the level of experience and commitment to supporting their peers. It is important to have a diverse group of artists that have something to offer all members.
This group will not contain any tutorials for materials. All artist will be expected to have a basic knowledge of their supplies.
This group is for beginner and intermediate artist looking for support and conceptual guidance. If you are an artist who has been showing consistantly and has been accepted to various opportunities this might not be the right place for you.
I encourage anyone who has questions or thinks this is the opportunity for them to schedule an application call.
We will be asking a few questions to see if this is the right fit for you and you can ask questions as well. Calls will be brief on our end and will be mindful of your time.
Bio.
From the start of her career, Cara has held various positions nationally as a professional Artist. Her experience includes a solo studio artist, a variety of positions in gallery development, studio management, and assisting in the development of young artists and their art eduction. Her diverse background and variety of experiences speaks to her ability to integrate and customize a unique esthetic into multiple mediums including painting, photography, sculpture, video, digital art, professional management, education, and coaching.
Much of her work is autobiographical in nature. She uses various images of herself and her own personal social lens to view culture. Sharing the observations she has had growing up as a biracial child in a race that was not her own, informs much of her work.
She has had many surreal experiences often times finding herself being the "invisible person“ in the room. This position as a biracial woman in many social settings has al- lowed Cara to gain a unique perspective into the evolution of America’s contemporary culture. Realizing that she has a unique place in this conversation, she pushes her interest to constantly discover and explain how color and race exist. She believes there"s a rainbow being formed not only in America but globally and the representation of the gradients of color are an important visual of the spectrum of race. Additionally, the influence of media on a race and social boundaries fascinates her and drives her to con- tinue the conversation that she has illustrated in her work.
To date Cara has been featured in Fused Society Magazine's inaugural issue and Kalamazoo College's Praxis Center for Social Justice Leadership website.
Cara’s work and vision has been displayed across the United States in prominent art epicenters such as Boston, MA and Philadelphia, PA and also in smaller communities to include El Paso, TX and Cincinnati, OH. She continues to contribute regularly on topics related to art, culture and social constructions in a variety of forums.
Cara holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in affiliation with Tufts University. She graduated with the Pegasus Prize and the Dana Pond Award. Cara earned a Yale Interview after graduating from Tufts but did not pur- sue the opportunity any further. Her artistic education started as a child as she attended the School for Creative and Performing Arts in Cincinnati, Ohio from grades 7-12.
Currently Cara works from her studio in Philadelphia. She lives there with her husband and two kids.
Why I Created This For You.
We all have those teachers that changed our lives, right? I had 4! And having 4 takes nothing away from any of them. Here is what they did:
Adrienne and Althea Thompson. Notoriously known as "The Thompson Twins" were my art teachers in high school. These two women are the rock that my talent is anchored on. They had all the confidence in me that no one else had and sent me on my way to art school. (I wept deep deep sobbing tears when I left their guidance, a cry that I have never cried since)
When I got to my college I was a little ahead because I had already been in a school totally dedicated to teaching the arts. By the time I hit my senior year I was taking classes with the grad students. But, I had not applied to grad school or done the things that you do in your senior year to prepare for grad school. I had to learn it all at once, on the fly. Most of my classmates had carefully crafted statements about their work. All I had was a "you'll be fine," and a pat on the shoulder as I was being thrown to the wolves.
I had been studying under Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons and she boosted my reputation so high even I couldn't reach it for a few weeks. In those weeks I learned to craft my story. I had a great body of work, but I had to learn how to tell people about stand about myself.
How did I do that? The fourth professor, Ann Craven was a well known and connected New York artist and brought many influential contemporary artists into my studio as part of a class she was teaching. I told my story over and over and over. Getting feedback every single time and learning how to do it better each time.
I had so many critiques that year my head spun and by the end of that year I had an interview at Yale!
This was years ago, but I talked so much about my work that year that I have been working from seeds that were planted then ever since.
And that is what this Roundtable will do. You will those cultivate those seeds and have them for a lifetime.