Professional Practice Bi-Weekly Workshop
with Lexa Walsh
In this course, we will move intently toward building our professional practices as artists. We will cover the many ways to be in the Art World(s), and how to get there: Goal Setting, Grants, Budgets, Pricing, Residencies, Open Calls, Artist and Project Statements, Elevator Pitches, CVs, Documentation, Websites, Networking and Promotion, and the importance of Community. We will share tips and strategies to help define and finesse each of these, by identifying our audiences, contexts, processes, research and challenges.
Plus it includes MEMBERSHIP!!
Bi-Weekly
Lexa Walsh is an artist, cultural worker, and experience maker. Walsh makes projects, exhibitions, publications, and objects, employing social engagement, institutional critique, and radical hospitality. She creates platforms for interaction across hierarchies, representing multiple voices and inventing new ways of belonging, not only for people but also for collections and archives.
She is a graduate of Portland State University’s Art & Social Practice MFA program and holds a BFA in Ceramics from California College of Arts and Crafts. She was a Social Practice Artist in Residence in Portland Art Museum’s Education department and received the Southern Exposure’s Alternative Exposure Award, the CEC Artslink Award, the Gunk Grant, the de Young Artist Fellowship, and Kala’s Print Public Residency Award. Walsh has participated in projects, exhibitions and performances at Apexart, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Cité de la Musique, Exploratorium, de Young Museum, di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, Exploratorium, Federal Hall, Kala Art Institute, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland Museum of California, NIAD, Portland Art Museum, SFMOMA, Smack Mellon, Taipei Artist Village, Walker Art Center, Williams College Museum of Art, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. She has done several international artist residencies, tours, and projects. She is currently an Artist in Residence at Grand Central Art Center in Santa Ana, CA.
CONSOLIDATED MESS
INSTALLATION, RECLAIMED WOOD, CARDBOARD, CONTACT PAPER, RECLAIMED FURNITURE, BURLAP, NETTING, RIBBON, AIR FORCE PINS, FOUND EPHEMERA, WWII ERA PHOTOGRAPHS, AFGHAN WAR RUG, SOUND, GLAZED CERAMIC, MIXED MEDIA, CURATED ARTWORKS AND OBJECTS FROM VETERANS AND THEIR FAMILIES, SOCIAL PRACTICE 2022
An interactive artist residency and exhibition at Marin MoCA, informed by the Hamilton Airfield historical archives housed at the Hamilton Field History Museum in Novato, California.
TAKING ONE FOR THE TEAM
CERAMICS, TEXTILES, MIXED MEDIA, SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT, SOUND
2022
BOTH SIDES NOW, WITH DAN WALSH
INSTALLATION, WILLIAMS COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART COLLECTION, ALTERED WILLIAMS COLLEGE FURNITURE, FOUND OBJECTS, COTTON, THREAD, PUFFY PAINT, POMPOMS, ACRYLIC ON CANVAS, PRINTED MATTER, SOCIAL PRACTICE, 2016
…WHICH BY THEIR VERY UTTERANCE…
Wooden game board, electronics, computer, sound, website, printed matter, 2022
CONSOLIDATED MESS
INSTALLATION, RECLAIMED WOOD, CARDBOARD, CONTACT PAPER, RECLAIMED FURNITURE, BURLAP, NETTING, RIBBON, AIR FORCE PINS, FOUND EPHEMERA, WWII ERA PHOTOGRAPHS, AFGHAN WAR RUG, SOUND, GLAZED CERAMIC, MIXED MEDIA, CURATED ARTWORKS AND OBJECTS FROM VETERANS AND THEIR FAMILIES, SOCIAL PRACTICE 2022
An interactive artist residency and exhibition at Marin MoCA, informed by the Hamilton Airfield historical archives housed at the Hamilton Field History Museum in Novato, California.
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