Fast and Specific Individual Support Structures for Artists on the Go
If you’ve read the offer for my Easier Creative Artist 1:1 Mentoring Program but think you’d prefer something more specific on a single topic, this page is for you.
Each of these 1:1 workshops takes place over Zoom, in two 45-minute calls spaced over more-or-less 10 days. In the first call, we’ll find out what you feel you’re missing from this topic and discuss ways to adjust what you have now. In the second call, we’ll circle back to see how you’ve made out in the intervening days and make adjustments for your practice going forward.
Easier Creative Artist Mentoring 1:1 Workshops – Topics
1. Time Management for Artists
Wait – don’t run away! Because Time Management for Artists is about deciding what matters to you. And how you’re going to get it done and feel good about it. Managing energy, managing expectations, managing distraction – they’re all part of managing your time.
For many artists, even the words “time management” sound restrictive. They sound so corporate, so un-creative, so lacking in any understanding of what you as an artist really do. One popular definition says, “Time management is the process of consciously planning and controlling time spent on specific tasks to increase how efficient you are.” Maybe it’s the idea of conscious control that puts you off. What in the artist’s life is controlled? And is efficiency the be-all and end-all of creativity?
Yet at the same time, you aren’t satisfied with what you’re making out of the time you’ve got.
In this Easier Creative Time Management for Artists 1:1 workshop, we’ll create greater ease about your time. We’ll look at how much time you really have and how you can feel at the end of the day that you did what you wanted. That you’re the productive and fulfilled artist you set out to be. Over two sessions we’ll test and figure out solutions, and you’ll end up with a better structure for your days.
2. Financial Record-Keeping for Artists
Do you know what your financial status really is? Can you file income tax every year without going crazy? Do you wish there was an easier way of keeping on top of all your necessary monetary structures? No?
Then this Easier Creative Financial Record-Keeping for Artists 1:1 workshop is for you.
What it isn’t: An income tax workshop. A Canada Revenue Agency interpretation session. A analysis of your individual allowable tax deductions.
What it is: A structure we develop together, specifically for you, so you know where you are. Income and expenditure are clear. You know what your tax situation is. You can do tax filing more easily. You have a ready defense against a CRA audit if you ever needed one.
In this Easier Creative Financial Record-Keeping for Artists 1:1 workshop, over two sessions we’ll create greater ease about your money.
3. Getting to Exhibition
For most artists, the time spent in your studio is the best part of your day. Working with your materials, developing new ideas, practising, learning, making something that didn’t exist before – that’s what you were put on earth to do. Even in those times when you don’t like what you’re doing, or worse, when you can’t get into the studio to do it, you know where you belong.
For most artists, the day also comes when you start to feel it would be nice if someone other than you could see what you’re doing. All those ideas, that production, that beauty – it’s worth putting out into the world.
But for most of us, that’s easier said than done. An active exhibition career doesn’t happen all by itself. It must be created and maintained. Most artists will need to spend time and energy approaching and re-approaching exhibition spaces throughout their working lives. That’s the part we find hard.
In this Easier Creative Getting to Exhibition 1:1 Workshop, we’ll make it less difficult. We’ll look at options for exhibition and compare them to the outcome you want. Over two sessions, we’ll tune up your CV, artist statement, exhibition proposal, and image selection, as well as plans for promoting the exhibition once you’ve got it lined up. You’ll be good to go!
Here’s How You Begin
You take the first step in your next direction. You make the commitment to your artist’s life. You decide that you want things to be different.
Then you contact me. You invest the time and focus needed to tell me what you’re dealing with, and I’ll invest the same in you.
Here are the questions I want you to answer.
- Your name
- Your email address
- Your time zone or nearest major city
- Your website and any relevant online portfolios or social networking profiles
- Your art form and how long you’ve been working in it
- How do you describe your artwork?
- The name of the workshop you’re interested in
- Why are you interested in working with me right now?
- What usual times and days of the week are best for you?
I know it’s a lot of questions! I know this requires your time energy. But I can promise you that if you answer them honestly, you will be further ahead.
All responses are strictly confidential.
You can click here to get to my contact page.
How do I work with you?
When I receive your initial email I’ll get back to you with some possible appointments. Once we set up our first date, I’ll send you an invoice.
Your investment: $150 CAD for two 45-minute calls via Zoom, over a period of more-or-less 10 days. You can pay by e-transfer or cheque.
Are you ready for simple support that gets finished?
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Laureen Marchand – Artist, Teacher, Artist Mentor
I always loved what I called making things, but as I was growing up I never met an artist or saw an original piece of art. Then, in eleventh grade, a new girl moved to my school—a girl who had spent her childhood in galleries and art classes. With her as my new sense of what was possible, I began college two years later as a painting major in a BFA program. Since then my art career has taken many twists and turns, but this has always been where my heart is and where all other goodness comes from.
Now I live and work in Val Marie, Saskatchewan, gateway to Grasslands National Park and one of Canada’s most beautiful and remote regions, where I paint full time. Inspired by the region’s subtlety and fragile beauty, my paintings reflect on the importance of the daily experiences we take for granted. Though these paintings look realistic, they’re not just about surface appearances. I believe that if I can paint someone or something so it looks the most like itself, it might help the viewer see not just the painting’s subject, but their own relationship to it.
My exhibition career spans over 40 years and more than 30 solo and two-person exhibitions as well as over 50 group shows. My paintings have been recognized by the Saskatchewan Arts Board and the Canada Council, are held in many public and private collections, and have been represented in exhibition catalogues and reviewed in newspapers and magazines. I have contributed widely to Canada’s artistic community as organizer, teacher, mentor, writer, and curator. I hold the Canadian Artists Representation “Tony” Award for service to the visual arts in Saskatchewan and the Centennial Leadership Award for Service to the Province of Saskatchewan.
Contact me here.