FEES:
Artist Talk: $500, within 3 driving hours. *
Artist Talk, in Addition to Workshop: $200
Visiting Artist: Artist Talk, 3-hour workshop, Grad Studio Visits
$1,200 per day, within 3 driving hours*
Visual Voice Workshop, One Day: 3-hour workshop (presentation/questionnaire) $500, 7-Hour Workshop (with additional drawing/group response) $1200, within 3 driving hours*
Visual Voice Workshop, Two Days: Two 7-Hour Days
Includes Extended Exercises, & individual critique/feedback $2000, within 3 driving hours*
Publicity Hat Workshops: 4-Hour Workshop, $700, within 3 driving hours. *
Virtual Visiting Artist - ZOOM Lecture for distance learning classes, plus Q & A: $200 for 90 minutes
Available for Custom ZOOM lectures /discussions. Contact me at kkretz4art@aol.com
Mentoring now available through Mentorly: $90 / half hour $150 /hour
* I am located in the DC /Baltimore area. Add flight & lodging (staying with a generous faculty member/board member is acceptable) if over 3 hours away.
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Artist Talk:
45 min – 1 ¼ hours, plus Q & A
Kate’s work spans media categories, including work that will be of interest to students studying drawing, painting, fiber, wearables, and sculpture. Traditional media like silverpoint drawing and Renaissance glazing techniques are put in service of contemporary concepts. An obsessive emphasis on craft is balanced with a desire to execute each work in the most powerful and effective medium, while often pushing that medium to its physical limits. Includes Psychological Clothing series, human hair embroideries, unconventional multi-media drawings and paintings, and unusual fiber work.
ALSO AVAILABLE: Lectures on The Artist’s Function In A Democracy, The Art World VS. The Art Life, What People Don’t Get About Controversial Art
Dig Deep: Visual Voice Workshop
This intensive workshop serves artists who work in all media, at virtually any stage in their development. Utilizing both intuitive and analytical approaches, discover ways to unearth the unique work that you alone were born to make. Cultivate methods to mine for concepts and discover your own distinctive formal vocabulary. Explode automatic assumptions that you did not even know you were making about your own work. The featured exercises can also be applied to refresh an artistic practice or recover from "artist's block." Offered as an abbreviated 3-hour workshop, a 7-hour workshop, or a two-day workshop, which includes additional drawing exercises, and feedback on individual work. A recent conference paper outlines the philosophy behind Kate’s book and workshops, arguing that we need to go beyond classes teaching ideation. We need to facilitate development of a research/creation model to build a solid core, unique to each student, one that will expand and morph along with them throughout their creative life.
Kate has been helping undergraduate and graduate students find their visual vocabulary for over 25 years. As an Associate Professor and BFA Director at Florida International University for ten years, Kate helped students create final bodies of work for their BFA and MFA exhibitions. She has lectured/ participated on panels at the Miami Art Museum, The Frost Art Museum, Hollywood Art & Culture Center, the Textile Society of America, Binghamton University, Mississippi University for Women, USC Columbia, College Art Association Conference, Foundations in Art and Theory Conference, and The Southeastern College Art Conference, and has given critiques as a Visiting Artist for students at all levels at over 25 institutions, including Virginia Commonwealth University, NC State, Antioch College, UNC Chapel Hill, Florida Atlantic University, Catholic University, Agnes Scott College, Elon University, and CUNY. Kate’s exhibitions include the Museum of Arts & Design in New York, Holon Museum of Design in Israel, Van Gijn Museum in The Netherlands, Kunstraum Kreuzberg in Berlin, Tsinghua University in Beijing, Wignall Museum, Katonah Museum, Frost Museum, Fort Collins MOCA, San Jose Museum of Textiles, Telfair Museum, Fort Lauderdale Museum, and the Museo Medici in Italy, as well as Lyons Wier Ortt & 31Grand Gallery in NY, Hardcore Art Contemporary Space in Miami, Snyderman-Works Galleries in Philadelphia, and Packer/Schopf in Chicago.
"Publicity Hat" Workshop
Designed for artists who have a difficult time promoting their creative work. Learn how to break through the myths and psychological barriers that are holding back your career. Cultivate a new mindset to become a constant advocate for your work in a non-aggressive, natural way. Learn how to find the contacts that you need, use social media to your advantage, get maximum mileage out of the promotional time you invest, capture the attention of the right people, parlay your smaller successes into larger ones, and how to create a buzz for important projects and exhibitions. 4-hour workshop.
A million years ago, before getting her MFA degree, Kate had a secret, brief stint as an award-winning art director in an ad agency that gave her a foundation in ascertaining angles, pinpointing audiences, and delivering memorable messages. As a professional artist, Kate has built up an extensive CV, doing virtually all of her own publicity. Her 2006 painting, “Blessed Art Thou”, appeared in virtually every major newspaper and TV news channel in the world, due to her press releases. Much of Kate’s work is decidedly non-commercial, but has appeared in over 95 international newspapers and has been featured repeatedly in the New York Times, ArtPapers, The Huffington Post, and Surface Design, as well as Vanity Fair Italy, ELLE Japon, PASAJES DISENO (Spain), and 1626 (China) magazines.
* I am located in the Mid-Atlantic area. Add flight & lodging (staying with a generous faculty member/board member is acceptable) if over 3 hours away.
All payments by individuals must be made by Paypal to kkretz4art@aol.com.
Institutions can be invoiced.