Consult with Patricia Miranda

Empowering Artists and Artist Communities through Collaborative Visioning

The Crit Lab offers Private and Group Consulting for the Artistic, Business, and Technical needs of artists and organizations.

Writing with Patricia Miranda

We do this together! 

After from many years of teaching writing and professional practice to artists in graduate, undergraduate and professional settings, I have innovated an active method of thinking together, individually and in groups, to build statements that best represents the work. We workshop texts, and think through ideas and language together. This method and process crafts strong statements and proposals, and builds the ability to write better statements in future.

As visual artists- the writing accompanies the work as a kind of addendum. The goal is to supplement the visuals- not to replace, explain, generalize, or rationalize.  What would you say about your practice if someone came to your studio? An artist statement is a more formal version. What is essential to know when looking at the work? Statements are challenging to write - and - fun to dig into together.  Like architecture that surrounds and supports the work, a good statement is like a cut rock, a diamond - clear, concrete, affirmative.

Strong statements offer enormous clarity for both artist and viewer. They support you in pushing your work forward.

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A consult starts with a walk-through of your website, as a space where you have already curated and organized your work. This may include critique of the work, analysis of curation, and review of your texts, as well as considering if the website makes the conceptual ideas in the work visible and accessible. Together we review materials, and create simple systems for long and short term planning, goal setting, designed around your individual practice. This includes strong artist statements, proposals, and curated portfolios, to best represent the work.

For those wanting to build a website, we discuss the framework above, and create a plan for making it happen. Valentina jumps in with tech support once the plan and content is organized.