We accept submissions from artists in 8th grade and up. If you’re an art teacher, you’re welcome to submit on behalf of your students!
ART PROF is a free, online educational platform for visual arts for people of all ages to learn visual arts in a vibrant art community. Imagine all of the resources here on our blog, except exponentially bigger, in greater quantity, and in more detail. Our Kickstarter campaign hit its $30k goal on July 19! Get info on our future launch by subscribing to our email list.
FREE ART CRITIQUE EVENT AT BLICK BOSTON LANDMARK Saturday, July 16, 2-4pm
Bring up to two pieces of artwork to get an individual review from one of the ART PROF staff: Casey Roonan, Leyla Faye, and Clara Lieu. Free and open to all skill levels. Pre-registration is highly recommended.
FREE ART CRITIQUE EVENT AT BLICK CAMBRIDGE Sunday, July 17, 2-4pm
Bring up to two pieces of artwork to get an individual review from one of the ART PROF staff: Lauryn Welch, Casey Roonan, and Clara Lieu. Free and open to all skill levels. Pre-registration is highly recommended.
Getting professional trusted feedback is really tough to find if you are not currently enrolled in a degree program. Even more rare is the opportunity to have your artwork critiqued by not just one, but several seasoned art professionals. So many artists have written to me over the past three years, seeking advice and critiques on their artwork. I saw this gigantic void that I knew I could fill with the ART PROF Teaching Assistants, so that’s why we started offering audio and video critiques here on this blog and Crit Quickies on our Instagram.
Here are some thoughts from people who we have done critiques for:
“Thank you so, so much for such a thorough and honest critique. It is really difficult to find that sort of feedback. It is such a help to have a direction to explore.”
“Thank you so much for your encouraging words and constructive feedback. I’ve never had my work critiqued before so I was a bit apprehensive but you were all so well-meaning and gave me such good advice that I not only feel relieved but extremely grateful!”
“Clara, this was great for someone like me — I’m not in school and I haven’t really found a way to get thoughtful input on my art. Many of the critique comments highlight things I hadn’t explicitly thought about, so I am excited that pursuing these ideas may lead me to some interesting development. Thanks to all four of you!”
Below is a tiny slice of a video critique from the ART PROF prototype:
Now imagine if there was a page on our prototype that could consolidate all of the different kinds of critiques ART PROF has to offer. On the contrary, we don’t have to imagine! This critique page is already built, its just sitting on a server, waiting for the funds we need to bring make it public. See the page below!
If our Kickstarter campaign is successful, that means that several pages that like this one, and many more sections of our prototype will become free and accessible to the public. Donate before July 19! (Remember, Kickstarter is an all-or-nothing format. If we do not reach our goal, we will receive no funding.)
Now that I’ve done 10 Crit Quickies on my Instagram, I’m going to add follow up crits called “Before & After.” So, if you get a Crit Quickie from me, you can work further on the artwork I critiqued. Then, post your revised artwork w/@art.prof, #artprof & “Before & After.”
Looking forward to seeing what you do!
Subscribe to my email list! There’s a big announcement coming on June 14 about a major art education project that you won’t want to miss.
What I’m most excited about is the extraordinary range of different artists and artworks that people are sending me. Crit Quickie #3 was by a retired art teacher, and #9 (below) was a painting by a 9th grader that was submitted by her art teacher. #8 (above) is by a freshman in art school. With so many submissions, it is going to take me some time to get to yours, so please be patient. If the volume of submissions gets to the point where I’m not able to critique every piece, I will have to critique only select pieces. Keep those submissions coming! Post your art w/ @art.prof , #artprof & “Crit Quickie.”
We accept submissions from artists in 9th grade and up. If you’re an art teacher, you’re welcome to submit on behalf of your students!
A thin slice of an interactive video critique and a charcoal drawing demonstration. This video critique and demo are just two tiny parts of a huge art education project that will be landing full force on June 14!
Heidi Neff “Untitled (Resistence)”, acrylic paint on canvas, 9″ x 16″
“This painting is a part of a larger body of work which investigates the relationship between the virtual and the physical and how that relates to profoundly personal experiences such as love, sex, motherhood, loss, illness, physical injury and spiritual connections. In my work, paint acts as metaphor for that which is messy, physical and real in an increasingly detached, virtual world.”
Yves-Olivier Mandereau, Designer & Ceramic Artist “If you’re talking about the physical and virtual world, I want to see in your work what is the relationship between two systems.”
Annie Irwin, Weaver, Textile Artist, Painter “In terms of what’s happening in the background, I think you could achieve more space and depth by trying to further your experimentation with materials.”
Alex Rowe, Book Illustrator “The really nice, subdued blue is really making all the oranges and the yellows, and the reds pop.”
