One of our primary goals at Mount Tremper Arts is to facilitate dialogue between artists and audience members and also between artists and artists (both performing and visual).  We want to talk about how and why art is made, how it is sustained. 

The creative, administrative, and fiscal aspects of art-making are often very private affairs.  Sometimes this is necessary.  But sometimes it's important to hear how other people do it. 

There are many collections of writers on writing. (One of our favorites is this series in The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/books/specials/writers.html.) But we want to hear from other artists too!

We invite you to write something for this series (information below) or share a comment.  Looking forward!

Guidelines for submitting writing to Artists on Making Art

You are invited to submit writing for this series. 

• Pick one aspect of your relationship with / process of making work that is very alive for you right now.  The more personal, the more specific, the better.

• Write about it (or make a video or drawing or poem or something creative that can be posted on the web). The length is up to you.

• Some possible topics are: an aesthetic question you're grappling with right now,  a practical art-making question you're grappling with, going into the rehearsal studio, printing, editing,  process of working with collaborators, process of preparing to go onstage, how you first get ideas, how you fundraise, how you hate fundraising, how you support yourself (emotional, physical, financial),  the terror of making new work and/or unveiling it, support or non-support you feel/have felt from family, culture, training.... we'd be happy to brainstorm more if you'd like help.  

• Check out the NYTimes series mentioned above if you'd like some examples.

• Include a short bio of yourself and one or two photos of your work or yourself.

• Email your piece to Aynsley at aynsleyv@gmail.com and we'll post it.

• Let us know if you have any questions.

  Yippee!!