Group Critique: West Coast Focus
Anna Valdez
ONLINE - 6 weeks
Payment Plans + Financial Aid

Day of the week: Wednesday

6 Weeks of Classes: September 28, October 5, October 12, October 19, October 26, November 2

Time: 4-6pm (PST) / 7-9pm (EST)

Length: 2 hrs.

Artists in this course will:

The class meeting time of this Group Critique course is garnered to West Coast artists. Please note all artists around the world are welcome to join this course.

Artists in the Group Critique course will meet via Zoom and will present their work to the group and faculty member, Anna Valdez. The intimate class offers each artist the opportunity to present artworks twice to the group. The first crit is an initial brief presentation to the group about your work and goals for this course. The second crit is a longer-form critique at 30 minutes, which will provide each artist feedback, context and research based prompts by faculty and peers. Each class will be recorded for artists to review artist talks and presentations; in addition the chat will always be saved for those wanting to review notes from their critique.

The dialogue around the critiques is research driven and peer driven. All artists in the group play a valuable role in giving feedback and suggestions that will respectively help each artist presenting. Artists are expected to come prepared for their critique / presentation with essential questions about their work and thinking to help frame the dialogue for them. Artists are welcome to show works in progress, finished work, painting, drawing, video stills, textiles, mixed media, small sculpture and video.

All artists in the class will be paired with a partner to meet for a virtual studio visit outside of class. The artist pairs will be made by Anna Valdez after Day 1 introductions.

Artists in this course:

• Will participate in a class size of 12 artists max

• Receive opportunities for critiques & feedback: one introduction to the class and one 30 min critique / presentation 

• Collaborate with artist peers in Zoom or in-person studio visits outside of class

• Receive written feedback from peers and faculty every presentation 

• Get weekly prompts + challenges to reinvigorate each artist’s approach and artistic practice

• Learn about new artists, suggested films, readings and exhibitions to see

• End class with an open forum to discuss art world questions with Anna Valdez 

• End the class with a final brief presentation of one new piece ideally made during the class’s run responding to feedback and thoughts from peers and critics

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Financial Aid is available. NYC Crit Club provides payment plans, BIPOC scholarships and additional aid based on extenuating circumstances. Please click here to learn more before checking out.