Please join us for a workshop where we dig into some of the less glamorous tasks of being an artist! Your CV and bio are crucial to your success and longevity. The formulas for both are very simple, but most people do not have it right, most often due to lack of knowledge or time. Let’s take the time to make yours perfect, so the next time you need it for grant/residency applications, gallery/collector requests, your website, online platforms or an open call it’s ready to send!
The workshop will be hosted on Zoom. Attendees will receive a Zoom link via email.
A portion of all proceeds will be donated to the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, America’s premier legal organization fighting for racial justice.
Tickets: $30
Early bird pricing: $20 through October 1 with code NSC20
Purchase ticket: LINK
About the Facilitator:
Courtney Childress co-founded yours mine & ours gallery in the Lower East Side of New York in 2016. Previously she was the Director of Life on Mars Gallery from 2015-2016. She worked for On Stellar Rays from 2010-2015, starting as an assistant and working her way up to Director at the gallery. During this time, seven of the artists in the gallery had major museum acquisitions and exhibitions, the gallery was written about by the New York Times, Art in America and Artforum. She has curated many exhibitions, most recently Tell Me Again by Eliot Greenwald at SPRING/BREAK Art Show, New York, NY (2019); Static Limit by Esther Ruiz at yours mine & ours, New York, NY (2017); Water Sports by Todd Bienvenu at yours mine & ours, New York, NY (2017); Touching in the Dark - Mandy Lyn Ford and Sarah Faux at yours mine & ours, New York, NY (2016); 60 Minutes at Vanity Projects, New York, NY (2015) & Vanity Projects, Miami, FL (2015); and No Name at On Stellar Rays, New York, NY (2013). Courtney has worked on independent projects with Sarah Oppenheimer, JJ PEET, Rochelle Feinstein, Joan Snyder, Julia Bland and others. She received her MFA from State University of New York at Purchase (2011); Post-Baccalaureate from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston (2009); and her BFA from the University of Alabama in (2008).
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. is America’s premier legal organization fighting for racial justice. Through litigation, advocacy, and public education, LDF seeks structural changes to expand democracy, eliminate disparities, and achieve racial justice in a society that fulfills the promise of equality for all Americans. LDF also defends the gains and protections won over the past 75 years of civil rights struggle and works to improve the quality and diversity of judicial and executive appointments. For more information, please visit www.naacpldf.org.