Join us for Professional Development, one in a series of workshops led by a visiting artist or professional chosen for their expertise. Each workshop leader will give a short lecture, followed by breakout sessions that will be joined by residents on site. This series is designed for emerging and mid-career working artists who are looking to bolster their professional toolbox by starting with concrete skills & moving towards more abstract concepts like relationship building, emotional resilience, and professional etiquette.

This workshop will be led by Ashley Stull Meyers, who will focus on essential foundational documents for artists, such as the artist statement, artist bio, CV, and website (the primary tools an artist has for navigating the art world). 

Future workshops will cover opportunities that those documents are used for including residencies, grad schools, and studio visits, followed by our toughest topic, and one that every Artist encounters at some point in their career: failure.’

This workshop has a 25-person cap. RSVP required.

Ashley Stull Meyers (she/her/hers) is a writer and curator of contemporary art. She has served as Northwest Editor for Art Practical and in 2017 was named Director and Curator of The Art Gym and Belluschi Pavilion at Marylhurst University. The following year, she was made co-curator of the 2019 Portland Biennial.
Currently, she serves as the Mary Jones and Thomas Hart Horning Chief Curator of Art, Science and Technology at PRAx (Oregon State University). Since 2022 she been a member of the board at Oregon Contemporary.

Stull Meyers is based between Portland and Corvallis, Oregon.

For more about Ashley Stull Meyers

Photo by: Sam Gehrke pulled from ASM website

This program is made possible through the generous support of the Tennessee Arts Commission.