ART COACHING PROGRAM

OBJECTIVES:

1-To review the artist’s current creative process and his/her body of work; with the goal to understand the actual direction and stage of its creative development. Also, to review obstacles the work encounters, its missing points, and the potential in the artist.

2-To explore and stimulate the creative nodes in the artist, to activate them in order to create new work.

3-To build in the artist new patterns of creativity through art exercises, readings, and by visits to museums, galleries, and artists’ studios.

4-To enhance the knowledge of art; specifically contemporary art through art courses.

5-To build the artist’s identity, through a process of introspection, and art dialogue.

 6-To create an understanding of the artist’s creative traits: what is inside, and where does the work come from.

CHARACTERISTICS:

1-The Art Coaching Program is a process applied individually to each artist and to his/her inner nucleus of creativity.

2- The Art Coaching Program is an artistic process that develops through bi-weekly sessions (2 hours per session) in the artist’s studio.

3-The Art Coaching Program has two levels of six months each level.

Level 1:Six Months

The first level will focus on the evaluation of the existing works and through art exercises, art readings, and discussions, to establish artistic improvements or new paths of creation.

Level 2: Six Months

This level is oriented to produce a solid body of works accordingly with the process of Level 1 and to create an artistic or professional portfolio (artist statement, Photo CD, Resume). The artist is able to propose his/her work to institutions or art events.

In this level it would be the review or the creation of a Website. The artist will be suggested to create or to incorporate these works to his/her website.

 

PROGRAM

LEVEL 1: SIX MONTHS

Steps:

1-Evaluation of the artistic production of the artist. The artist must have in their studio all of her works to be reviewed and discussed.

2-The evaluation will consist on analysis of the accomplishments and/or weaknesses of the work , to establish  improvements, and/or new paths of creation.

3-Discussion and clarification on the artist’s inquiries and doubts about her work, his/her artistic needs, his /her artistic projection.

4-To enrich the creative nodes of the artist, and the blocked areas of creation.

5-Art readings and art exercises to enrich the artistic level of comprehension of his/her current work and his/her new possibilities.

6-To define the artist’s identity and why, how and from where the work is produced.

7-To profile and to define new elements in the work with the goal of producing a coherent and high quality group of works in the Level 2.

LEVEL 2: SIX MONTHS

Main Goals:

1-To produce a high quality body of works to propose to an art institution on to an art event.

2-To work with each one of the pieces in their details and finishing aspects to create an impeccable artistic production.

3-To orient the artist in how and to whom the works could be proposed in the art field. (This does not compromise the art coaching facilitator to get any specific exhibition or art show for the artist; the facilitator’s task would be to orient the artist in how to present his/her work and his/her different options in the art field)

SCHEDULE:

1-Two blocks of six months.

2-Sessions of 2:00 hours, every 2 weeks.