A year-long, online artist development program to help artists level up their practice.
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May 15
Applications are now open for the next Artist Commons cohorts.
Beginning this July, visual artists will spend a full year in conversation with mentors, art world professionals, visiting artists, lecturers, and a small cohort of peers who are serious about building a stronger, more sustainable art practice.
If you’ve been looking for better feedback and more structure for your work, this is your call to apply.
Early Admission Deadline: Monday, May 25
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Jun 13
Totally recommended
It has been more than I expected. I have learned so much more about art and how to navigate the art world. But most importantly about my own art practice.
Jun 13
If you’ve been curious whether Artist Commons is the right fit for you, the full replay of our recent Program Info Session is now streaming on YouTube (link in first comment).
It’s the best way to understand how the program works, hear from both our team and current students, and decide whether Artist Commons is the right next step for your art practice.
Artist Commons is built around three core pillars:
1. Cohorts and mentors to give your practice consistent feedback, structure, and support.
2. Lectures, panels, and interviews to help you build professional fluency and learn how to navigate the art world.
3. Visiting artists in residence to bring you into direct conversation with successful, working contemporary artists.
Together, these give artists the structure, feedback, knowledge, and community they need to build real momentum over the course of a year.
Applications for our summer-start cohorts close Monday, June 15.
#arteducation #artistdevelopment #artadvice #artistmentorship #artistopportunities
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Jun 13
If you’ve been curious whether Artist Commons is the right fit for you, the full replay of our recent Program Info Session is now streaming on YouTube (link in first comment).
It’s the best way to understand how the program works, hear from both our team and current students, and decide whether Artist Commons is the right next step for your art practice.
Artist Commons is built around three core pillars:
1. Cohorts and mentors to give your practice consistent feedback, structure, and support.
2. Lectures, panels, and interviews to help you build professional fluency and learn how to navigate the art world.
3. Visiting artists in residence to bring you into direct conversation with successful, working contemporary artists.
Together, these give artists the structure, feedback, knowledge, and community they need to build real momentum over the course of a year.
Applications for our summer-start cohorts close Monday, June 15.
#arteducation #artistdevelopment #artadvice #artistmentorship #artistopportunities
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Jun 12
Before ChatGPT and Claude, there was BINA48, a humanoid robot created in 2010 by Hanson Robotics. BINA48 stands for Breakthrough Intelligence via Neural Architecture 48. It was powered by AI and a series of motors to create realistic facial expressions. BINA48 even passed a college course on the Philosophy of Love at Notre Dame de Namur University.
Our Visiting Artist in Residence this quarter, @sashastiles, discusses her work with BINA48 around poetry and language.
#contemporaryartists #arthistory #poetry #languageart #robotics #aiart #newmediaart
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Jun 11
What can technologies like AI teach us about what it means to be human? And how can an artist help us make sense of that question?
Our Visiting Artist in Residence for the second half of this quarter is @sashastiles. Her generative piece, A LIVING POEM, which builds on a large language models she trained on her own poetry, was on display in the lobby of MoMA for 6 months over the last year. It's inspiring to see a major museum engage directly with these questions instead of running in the opposite direction, so it's been a joy to have her sit down with Artist Commons' students to think through these tough questions together.
#poetry #languageart #sashastiles #contemporaryartists #newmedia #aiart
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Jun 10
Tonight at 6pm ET, we’re hosting an Artist Commons info session for anyone who’s curious about how the artist development program works and what it would mean to join a cohort starting this summer.
If you’ve been looking for more feedback, structure, accountability, professional knowledge, and community for your art practice, this is the place to start before applications close on Monday.
You'll hear from current students and faculty as we walk through:
- How the year-long program works
- What the cohort experience looks like
- What you can expect from the mentor experience
- The benefits of learning from working artists and art world professionals
- How to fill out a strong application
RSVP link in the first comments below👇
If you can’t attend live, register anyway and we’ll send you the replay afterward.
Applications for our July-start cohorts close Monday, June 15, so this is a great chance to ask questions and learn more before you apply.
#artistdevelopment #arteducation #adviceforartists #artistcommons
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Less than one week left to apply!
What would a year of in-depth, honest support do for your art practice?
Artist Commons is a year-long, online development program for early- and mid-career visual artists. Each month you'll receive feedback on your work, learn how to navigate the art business, dive into art history for inspiration, and hear from working contemporary artists and art world professionals. Accepted applicants are paired with a cohort and mentor to help you set goals and build a sustainable studio rhythm. With each quarter, you'll gain confidence, professional fluency, and a network that grows with you.
What You'll Get
- Small Cohorts
- Feedback Sessions
- One-on-One Mentorship
- Weekly Lectures
- Panels & Interviews
- Portfolio Reviews
- Writing Clinics
- Reading Group Discussions
- Private Community Space
- Opportunity Listings
- Occasional Meetups
If you're craving focus and feedback, apply to join the next batch of cohorts and give your art the year it deserves.
New cohorts start in July. Application deadline: Monday, June 15
#ArtEducation #ArtistDevelopment #ArtistMentorship
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Dada was born from a world that no longer made sense.
After World War I, many Dada artists believed that their so-called rational society had led to the very violence it claimed to prevent. The values of middle class Europe had failed.
As a result, the Dadaists turned to nonsense and chance as a way to reject elite power and beliefs.
That’s why Dadaism still matters today. For contemporary artists, it shows how breaking from traditional methods of meaning making can in fact be a way to tell the truth about contemporary life.
#ArtHistory #ModernArt #Dada #Dadaism #AvantGarde
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Artists: join us Wednesday, June 10 @ 6pm ET for an @Artist_Commons info session.
What could a year of hands-on mentorship, cohort feedback, and weekly lectures from art world professionals do for your art practice?
RSVP at the link below to learn more:
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RSVP for the Artist Commons info session:
zoom.us/webinar/register/691…
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Before the internet gave us endless image feeds, artist Hannah Höch was already cutting through the media overload.
Her 1919–20 photomontage CUT WITH THE KITCHEN KNIFE gathers fragments from newspapers and magazines into a dense, unruly map of modern culture.
It’s part satire, part social critique. Höch uses the materials of mass media to question the power structures those images helped produce.
#ArtHistory #WomenArtists #CollageArt #Photomontage #ModernArt #Dada
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How have artists used text as a visual medium?
Last week Dr. Amy Raffel sat down with our students to talk about the use of text throughout art history.
Of course, you can't talk about text in art without touching upon the Dadaists, including this delightfully odd performance by Hugo Ball (seen on video here in a 1969 recreation).
#ArtHistory #Dada #TextArt #LanguageArt #PerformanceArt #AvantGarde
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Artists need to protect their rights.
Thankfully, the U.S. Copyright Office makes it easy to register multiple artworks through their website. It costs a small fee, but in return you get the legal protection that if someone misuses your image, like putting it on a product or in an ad, you're likely entitled to:
1. Statutory Damages, which can mean a higher reward for you per infringed work.
2. Recouping your attorney's fees and court costs.
That second one is often the only way artists can afford to retain a lawyer for a copyright lawsuit. So go register your works!
You own the copyright to the art you made even if you don't register with the copyright office, but in most cases you lose out on those extremely compelling financial protections/rewards you could have otherwise secured with a few simple clicks.
#copyrightlaw #artlaw #artistrights #notlegaladvice
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You can't copyright an idea.
A sunset is an idea, or at least a shared subject. Anyone can paint it. Anyone can photograph it.
But your photograph of that sunset is a specific expression: your timing, your framing, and your finished image.
That’s what copyright is concerned with. You only get the copyright to your fixed expression of that idea.
This matters for artists, because so much of our creative work begins with shared sources: landscapes, bodies, stories, histories, materials, and everyday life. The question is what you do with them.
Thanks to intellectual property lawyer David Shein (@davidshein) for this inspiring conversation.
#artistrights #artlaw #copyrightlaw #copyright
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Jun 4
The one thing I wish I had more of growing up was mentorship.
I could take one-off classes with inspiring teachers, but opportunities to go deeper were rare.
That’s one of the reasons I built @Artist_Commons around a very hands-on program with one-on-one mentorship.
How much could your creative practice be transformed if you had someone willing to go deep with you and nurture your work over the longterm?
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Do you have to a register an artwork to own the copyright to a piece you made?
@HaiverArt sat down with intellectual property lawyer David Shein to discuss artists' rights and what they need to do to protect their work.
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What do you need to grow as an artist?
Jun 3
- Do you want to learn more about how to navigate the business of art?
- Do you want an artist community invested in your longterm growth?
- Do you want real feedback on your work instead of just some kind words from your friends?
- Do you want to meet successful contemporary artists and learn from their experiences?
- Do you wish you had a way to bring art history into your practice so you can build on the shoulders of giants?
If you've been looking for a way to level up your art practice without spending an arm and a leg to get an MFA, @Artist_Commons is for you. This is the program that I wish I'd had when I was coming up.
Artists accepted into the program are paired with a mentor and a small cohort of peers at their level for weekly feedback sessions. Then tune in every month to lectures on the business of art, craft workshops from visiting artists, talks on various modern and contemporary art movements, and guest speakers working across the art world. You'll build deep community with your fellow members through online meetups including regular reading groups, a custom community app, and intimate discussions about art.
If you want to go into the next year with a clear sense of purpose for your art practice, we'd love to see your application and get to know you and your work.
The application deadline is less than two weeks away.
Our next batch of cohorts start in early July. Application deadline: June 15
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Artist @sashastiles is one of the most innovative artists working with language today. In 2018, she turned the user agreements from big tech companies into an art piece.
By using found text, she created a visual meditation that slows viewers down on the exact words we usually scroll past and agree to without a second thought. That's what great art does. It gets us to linger and creates a space to think about the world around us — including our digital lives.
#LanguageArt #Poetry #VisualArt #DigitalArt #SashaStiles
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What can an ancient technology like poetry teach us in this moment of existential fear around AI?
Artist @sashastiles sat down with Artist Commons' students last week to share her history of artmaking and to look at how poetry is uniquely attuned to help humanity process everything that's going on right now.
#ContemporaryArtists #Poetry #LanguageArt #MediaArt #SashaStiles
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