Always / Never: A Working Artist Workshop

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This workshop is scheduled to be in-person; masks & proof of vaccination required*

Instructor: Cole Cohen

Sundays, 2:30 — 4pm

Feb. 20th — March 27th

Class capacity: 8

Workshop fee:

$75 — $150 sliding scale

2 no-cost spots available; BIPOC & 2S prioritized; reach out to hquinn@iprc.org to inquire

Instructor: Cole Cohen

Workshop Description: Do you feel like maintaining your art practice means somehow always and yet never “working”? In this six week process and community oriented course, together we will brainstorm structures and support for making art.  We will read and discuss writing by  Philip Toshio Sudo, Rollo May, Jerry Saltz, and others  addressing “imposter syndrome”, art practice and ritual, and building respectful community.

Students will  participate in generative in-class writing exercises, draft pitch letters and artist statements, and create a shared calendar of deadlines and events. This workshop is open to all kinds of artists, with the understanding that reading and writing will make up a large component of the course.

Instructor Bio: Cole Cohen

Cole Cohen is the author of the memoir Head Case (Henry Holt, 2015), which received a starred Kirkus review and was excerpted in Vogue. She has been a Yaddo Fellow and a finalist for the Bakeless and Association of Writers & Writing Programs Creative Nonfiction Prizes and was a featured contributor for Entropy. She holds an MFA in Critical Studies from California Institute of the Arts and has previously taught at Rutgers University and The New School for Social Research. Currently, she teaches at Pacific Northwest College of Art.