Information from Tracy about writing an Artist Statement

Artist Statement - is a text composed by an artist and intended to explain, justify, and contextualize his or her body of work. Artists often have a short (50-100 word) and/or a long (500-1000 word) version of the same statement, and they may maintain and revise these statements throughout their careers.

Your artist's statement can be anything you want it to be, but primarily, it should help potential buyers, students or employers to understand what you believe to be the most important aspects of your art and the techniques you use to make it.

The statement should summarize these things in as few words as possible, preferably short ones, and not be a lengthy dissertation on your place in the future history of art. A paragraph of three or four sentences should do it. You won't keep your readers much longer than that.

For this project, we will be writing artist statements that directly speak to the stop animation project.

•     What subjects did you use (human, claymation, lego, etc)? Why?

•     What processes and techniques did you use? Why?

•     How is your project different from others?

•     What are you trying to communicate with this project?

•     What do other people say they see?

•     What are your goals and aspirations with this project?

•     Who or what inspired you to create this project they way you did?

References:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artist's_statement

http://www.nitaleland.com/articles/statement.htm