artist influences:

Cecily Brown

Frank Bruer

Battenfield is really pushing the artist statement in the beginning of the reading. She describes it as a useful tool for viewers to look to for answers to their questions. Battenfield complains that most artists express their artwork poorly through the artist statements, so she puts emphasis on working hard on it and expressing ourselves completely. She wants us to review our artist statement with a ‘sympathetic’ friend who is interested in what you do. She believes they will be the most useful and helpful to completing and editing your statement. Question your work in order to understand it. Questions such as “what does your art look like, why do you do it, is there a central image or idea in the work?’ These, she say, will help you write your statement. She provides all the technicalities of what an artist statement is supposed to have: double spaced, only one page, and 350 words. She explains that the artist’s statement can explain one work or a group of works that express the same concept and idea. She moves on to the artist’s resume and biography as the next tools. The resume lists all your education and artist’s work. Battenfield lists that Name and contact information, education, exhibition, awards/grants/residencies, bibliography, collections, other professional activities, and public commissions/film festivals/screenings/performances are all to be includes in your resume. She says to be clear and concise so the viewer understands everything immediately. Battenfiels guides her readers to write a proper artist’s statement and resume in order to show the art world they are professional artists.

How to Assemble the Essentil Tools to Support You Work summary

In chapter two:How to assemble the Essential Tool to Support Your Work, Jackie Battenfield offers her advise in becoming a successful artist. She states that meanings and understandings of an image gets lost in the image of the image itself. She says that to preserve the artist's true and honest intentions is to create work samples and artist's statements. Not only create these, but perfect them and display everything that is intended to be seen. Work samples are images of the work and images of the process of work in how is made or used. She explains that the images can be most useful if taken by the artist rather than a professional photographer because sometimes you are in a bind to turn in a photograph faster than a photographer appointment would allow. She also explains that because this image will be shown in all types of media to make it perfect to your standards. Artists statements are the statement the artist creates in order to explain it and help the viewer understand the image or piece. In the statement she says that it should be clear for all viewers to understand. She also explains that you need to understand your work before you can be persuaded by other ideas visions. She shows how to follow all these rules by describing how she followed a photographer's steps and compared other samples. She says to keep up with modern technology because it is the best way to preserve an image. Basically, Battenfield is relaying that it is our job as the artist to take responsibility to preserve our work, to showcase it in the best ability, and take heart in the work artists do in this process.

My obit.

Brittany was a graduate of the University of South Florida and went on to get her master’s in education. She met her husband in this testing process. She accomplished her goal as becoming a high school art teacher and establishing a family, leaving behind an extensive and loving family. She will be missed for her caring outreach, her helpful hand and loving personality.