artist talks

Pack your presentation with meaningful content

by Alyson Stanfield on May 4, 2009

If you think you don’t have much to say about your art, you’re not trying hard enough. Good content is everywhere, but it has to incubate. If you have a presentation coming up, start developing your content immediately. Give yourself time to play around with it, to make mistakes, and to tighten up your slides [...]

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Use questioning strategies to engage your viewers

by Alyson Stanfield on November 10, 2008

Background: A client and I were consulting last week about a gallery talk she had coming up. She wanted help preparing for it because it had turned into something much bigger than she had imagined. And she also had this dilemma: How to respond to questions about her process. Not only was she not quite [...]

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