The School of Art & Design is offering a free six-week online course focused on developing essential writing skills for artists. Good writing skills are needed for exhibition applications, grant applications, artist statements, social media and much much more!

• Approaches to Writing – 6pm Tuesday 21 July

• Proposals and Applications – 6pm Tuesday 4 August

• Writing for the Web – 6pm Tuesday 18 August

Attend one session, or for maximum impact attend them all!

The art world can be a confusing and difficult space to navigate, especially when keeping pace with changing trends, expectations and technology.

Do you struggle writing your artist statement? Don’t know how to write a grant application? Get lost writing your exhibition proposal? We’re here to help!

Are you a Canberra-based recent graduate, an emerging artist, a mid-career artist or someone who would like to get a better understanding of what skills are needed to gain a place in the contemporary art world? Then this course is for you!

Approaches to Writing focusses on the following activities:

• Introduction - building writing skills as an artist and an overview on types of writing used by artists

• Discussion - facilitated discussion with participants including their experiences and questions

• Practical exercises - Self-reflection exercise - where you are at right now, what do you want to learn?

• Writing exercise - small group exercise as the groundwork for developing or updating an artist statement

• Discussion - outcomes of writing exercise, reflection and homework task

Sustainable Creative Careers: Approaches to Writing, Proposals and Applications, and Writing for the Web will be taught by Ellis Hutch, artist and educator. Ellis Hutch is a visual artist and lecturer at the Australian National University School of Art & Design. Ellis’s teaching interests span drawing, sculpture, installation, video and performance art, and art theory. She’s currently teaching in the Sculpture and Spatial Practice Workshop at the ANU School of Art & Design.

Sustainable Creative Careers is supported by artsACT