Artist Statement As Manifesto Workshop w/ Pamela K. Santos

WITH: Pamela K. Santos

WHAT: 3 hour online workshop (with frequent bio breaks for every hour)

WHEN: Sat., March 13, 2021, from 11AM to 2PM PST

WHERE: Zoom. Meeting ID provided in advance after purchase

COST: $125 for workshop, $60 for consultation. See details below.

Do you feel challenged by the prospect of describing your writing? Do you need guidance on what an artist statement is for writers? Are you trying to create an artist website and want to include your philosophy on writing?

Open to writers of all experience levels, Pamela will share her approach to crafting artist statements as manifesto, love letter to her art, and bold declaration of her place in literary community. The craft lecture will include examples from her applications to grants, awards, fellowships, and residencies–successful and not so successful– as well as studies of artist statements by writers of all genres and disciplines. Be prepared to write components of a statement including answers to questions such as:

• What is the language for the work you write now? What is the language for work you have yet to create?

• How do you engage with audiences? Who are your readers?

• What identities do you choose to foreground in the first sentences?

• How do you begin to critique your work in a way to describe its value and place in the world?

• What writers is your work in conversation with?

• What space do you aspire your writing to take up in literary discourse?

You are encouraged to find your own questions to shape your statement as the goal is not to seek validation of your writing philosophy. See the process of drafting and revising as part of your creative practice, a way to exist in closer relationship to your work. Time for open Q&A and optional group feedback of statements.

For more detailed feedback of artist statements, there is an option for short personal consultation ($60 or generosity model below). If you’re trying to meet deadlines for grants or applications before March 13th, limited availability opens the week of February 22nd. Writers identifying as BIPOC and/or parents receive priority scheduling.

WHAT IS A GENEROSITY MODEL?

Scholarships for BIPOC writers available: Click here to apply.

A generosity model of payment plans and sliding scale options is available to make more space for those of varying economic capacity and to sustain the teaching practice of the artist (compensating for content preparation, facilitation, and feedback). Writers are welcome to pay what they can afford for this collective resource-building and together build a better online community. Email Daniel Elder at registration@corporealwriting.com.

Pamela K. Santos is a Pinayorker writer and artist who works in multilingual clarity as a kind of empathy with audiences. In 2019, Pamela received a Sustainable Arts Foundation award, Oregon Literary Fellowship, Caldera and Mineral School residencies, and three Regional Arts & Culture Council grants. Author of the forthcoming poetry collection Secret Lumpia (CCM/The Accomplices, 2021), Pamela’s poetry appears in Tayo Magazine, Anomaly, Newtown Literary, and elsewhere. Her performances include the Portland Book Festival and Smithsonian Asian American Literary Festival. In 2020 Pamela founded Space Stations, an artistic practice incubator for BIPOC writers. Pamela co-founded Portland’s Winter Poetry Festival, hosted at the IPRC in 2019 and at PNCA in 2020. She is working on experimental poetics and narratives in the University of Washington Bothell’s MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics.