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Stephanie A. Lindsey: Advice From An Artist

Connect with Stephanie A. Lindsey: https://www.stephaniealindsey.com/home.html https://www.instagram.com/sal_artstudio/ 🔍 Key Takeaways: • Individuality Matters: Your artistic journey is uniquely yours. Tune out external voices, even those of instructors and critics, to stay authentic to your vision. • Be Your Own Director: The most crucial voice in your creative process should be yours. Avoid letting external opinions take the director's chair in your mind. • Trust Your Instincts: When it comes to evaluating your work, trust your instincts. Your perspective is the foundation of your art, and it should guide your creative process. • Advice as a Bonus: While advice from mentors and instructors is valuable, remember that it's an added perspective. Your voice is equally valid in shaping your artistic expression. 🤝 Join the Conversation: Share your experiences in the comments below. How do you stay true to your artistic voice? What advice has resonated with you on your creative journey? 🎨 Join the Anderson Ranch community and take a workshop with us:

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👥 Connect with us: https://www.AndersonRanch.org https://www.instagram.com/andersonranchartscenter/ https://www.facebook.com/andersonranchartscenter/ About Anderson Ranch: The Anderson Ranch Arts Center is a non-profit organization and arts education institution located in Snowmass Village, Colorado. It offers a wide range of programs and resources to support artists, both emerging and established, in their creative endeavors. Anderson Ranch provides workshops and residencies in various visual arts disciplines, including painting, sculpture, ceramics, printmaking, photography, and new media. Anderson Ranch also hosts exhibitions, lectures, and events that promote artistic dialogue and engagement within the artistic community. To learn more, visit our website: https://www.AndersonRanch.org. #AndersonRanch #Ranchmade #StephaineLindsey #photographer #photography Transcript: Intro 00:09 the first voice that you should hear when you are creating is yours. And the voice that tells you like, yeah, this work is done or this work is good, should ultimately be yours. Don't listen to anybody but yourself 00:40 Don't listen to anybody but yourself, even your instructors, even critics, even curators, you know why you're doing this. And when you start listening to other voices, those voices ultimately find their way into your head and they become directors as you are in your creative process. And that's probably the worst thing that could happen. The first voice that you should hear when you are creating is yours. And the voice that tells you like, yeah, this work is done or this work is good, should ultimately be yours. Everyone else is ancillary. They're icing. It's a bonus effect. Center Yourself 01:17 There is a reason that you wanted to become an artist and trust that reason. And yeah, center yourself in your creative practice. Take advice, for sure. Listen to learned, wise instructors, mentors, yes. And trust that your voice is just as valid as theirs. Music from Uppbeat: https://uppbeat.io/t/danger-lion-x/flute-loops License code: Z9RDPSL8WDXIYNRG

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Kris Graves: Advice From An Artist

Discover the key to unlocking your creative potential with insights from renowned photographer and Ranch faculty member Kris Graves. Join us in this week's 'Advice from an Artist' segment as he shares the essential tools he relies on to thrive in his creative process. Connect with Kris Graves: https://krisgraves.com/ https://www.instagram.com/krisgraves/ https://www.instagram.com/kgpnyc/ About Anderson Ranch: The Anderson Ranch Arts Center is a non-profit organization and arts education institution located in Snowmass Village, Colorado. It offers a wide range of programs and resources to support artists, both emerging and established, in their creative endeavors. Anderson Ranch provides workshops and residencies in various visual arts disciplines, including painting, sculpture, ceramics, printmaking, photography, and digital media. Anderson Ranch also hosts exhibitions, lectures, and events that promote artistic dialogue and engagement within the artistic community. To learn more, visit our website: https://www.AndersonRanch.org #AndersonRanch #Ranchmade #KrisGraves #photography Video Transcript: Intro 00:00 No matter where I am in the world or in the ocean, like I can be in the water, I mean, I have to have a camera wherever I am. Welcome to Advice from a Artist. Every year Anderson Ranch invites over 130 practicing artists to teach in our summer workshop. We asked them to share a piece of advice they would give their younger selves. Here's what they said. If I could go back in time and talk to myself maybe 20 years or maybe 25 years ago. Advice to my younger self 00:29 In high school, I'd probably tell myself that, you know, I think photo will be a good option for you. It's probably the only art form that you can do by yourself. And I would say they're kind of take portraits of everybody you know and love while you can so that you can have a record of the people. Keep your tools close 00:48 I think the one thing that's been pretty constant or consistent in my career is me always having a camera. No matter where I am in the world or in the ocean, like I can be in the water, I mean, I have to have a camera wherever I am and within 50 feet of me at all times. So that has been kind of the one thing I would say for me is the best because I know, I remember times that I don't have the camera and now, now I always have it pretty much. So always have your tool on you. Music from Uppbeat: https://uppbeat.io/t/danger-lion-x/flute-loops License code: Z9RDPSL8WDXIYNRG

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Trey Hill: Advice From An Artist

If you've ever found yourself caught in the relentless grind, missing out on the joy inherent in the creative journey, then this week's episode is just what you need. In our latest installment of 'Advice from an Artist,' we feature Guest Faculty Trey Hill. Tune in as he imparts enduring wisdom on the Art of Balancing Effort & Play. Connect with Trey Hill: https://www.treyhillstudio.com/ https://www.instagram.com/treyhillstudio/?hl=en About Anderson Ranch: The Anderson Ranch Arts Center is a non-profit organization and arts education institution located in Snowmass Village, Colorado. It offers a wide range of programs and resources to support artists, both emerging and established, in their creative endeavors. Anderson Ranch provides workshops and residencies in various visual arts disciplines, including painting, sculpture, ceramics, printmaking, photography, and digital media. Anderson Ranch also hosts exhibitions, lectures, and events that promote artistic dialogue and engagement within the artistic community. To learn more, visit our website: https://www.AndersonRanch.org #AndersonRanch #Ranchmade #TreyHill #Sculpture #ceramics Video Transcript: Teaser 00:00 Intro 00:06 Welcome to Advice from a Artist. Every year Anderson Ranch invites over 130 practicing artists to teach in our summer workshop. We asked them to share a piece of advice they would give their younger selves. Its Worth it 00:23 I think what I might tell myself is all that hard work is worth it. And to remember that it's fun even when it's not fun. There's hard days and it doesn't seem like you're making any tracks but you're actually getting somewhere. And then amongst all that work and all that studio time, keep that feeling positive Play Hard 00:47 but get out and have some fun. It's good to, I mean you can't work every day of the week. There's a combination of what's the right amount of hard work and then squeeze in a little fun. Music from Uppbeat: https://uppbeat.io/t/danger-lion-x/flute-loops License code: Z9RDPSL8WDXIYNRG

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Leah Aegerter: Advice from An Artist

Connect with Leah Aegerter: https://www.leahaegerter.com/ https://www.instagram.com/leahaegerter/ About Anderson Ranch: The Anderson Ranch Arts Center is a non-profit organization and arts education institution located in Snowmass Village, Colorado. It offers a wide range of programs and resources to support artists, both emerging and established, in their creative endeavors. Anderson Ranch provides workshops and residencies in various visual arts disciplines, including painting, sculpture, ceramics, printmaking, photography, and digital media. Anderson Ranch also hosts exhibitions, lectures, and events that promote artistic dialogue and engagement within the artistic community. To learn more, visit our website: https://www.AndersonRanch.org #AndersonRanch #Ranchmade Music from Uppbeat: https://uppbeat.io/t/danger-lion-x/flute-loops License code: Z9RDPSL8WDXIYNRG

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Visiting Critic Lecture | Helen Molesworth

Never miss an artist lecture! Subscribe to our channel @AndersonRanchArtsCenter To learn more about our Visiting Artists and Critics Program: https://www.andersonranch.org/programs/visiting-artists/ To see a full list of Visiting Artists, Critics and other lectures, please visit:https://www.andersonranch.org/events/ Helen Molesworth is a writer, podcaster, and curator based in Los Angeles and Provincetown. In 2023, Phaidon published Open Questions, Thirty Years of Writing About Art, an anthology of her essays. Her podcasts include Death of an Artist, a 6-part podcast about the intertwined fates of Carl Andre and Ana Mendieta, and the inaugural season of Recording Artists with The Getty. She is also the host of DIALOGUES, a podcast that features interviews with artists, writers, fashion designers, and filmmakers hosted by the David Zwirner Gallery. Her major museum exhibitions include One Day at a Time: Manny Farber and Termite Art, Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933–1957, Dance/Draw, This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s, Part Object Part Sculpture, and Work Ethic. She has organized one-person exhibitions of Ruth Asawa, Moyra Davey, Noah Davis, Raoul De Keyser, Louise Lawler, Steve Locke, Anna Maria Maiolino, Josiah McElheny, Kerry James Marshall, Catherine Opie, Amy Sillman, and Luc Tuymans. She is the author of numerous catalogue essays, and her writing has appeared in Artforum, Art Journal, Documents, and October. The recipient of the 2011 Bard Center for Curatorial Studies Award for Curatorial Excellence, in 2021, she received a Guggenheim Fellowship, and in 2022, she was awarded The Clark Art Writing Prize.

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Visiting Artist Lecture | Joel Mesler

Never miss an artist lecture! Subscribe to our channel @AndersonRanchArtsCenter To learn more about our Visiting Artists and Critics Program: https://www.andersonranch.org/programs/visiting-artists/ To see a full list of Visiting Artists, Critics and other lectures, please visit:https://www.andersonranch.org/events/ Joel Mesler’s (b. 1974, Los Angeles) paintings shed light on universal themes by filtering them through autobiography, humor, self-deprecation, and surprising compositional juxtapositions. Childhood memories fuel meditations on design and popular iconography, not to mention the liquid, fluid, and mutable nature of the painting process. In recent years, Mesler has explored the power of acceptance, allowing emotions—as well as the cultural forms in which they become constellated—to exist at the center of his project. Mesler has also broadened his visual range, incorporating new motifs in the patterned backgrounds that provide the foundation for each composition and experimenting with increasingly elaborate ways of rendering typography. Their wry surrealism and emphasis on words and phrases place Mesler’s paintings in dialogue with the work of artists like Ed Ruscha and Christopher Wool, who engage with language and the relationship between text and image. But Mesler’s concerns are very much his own, and however lighthearted their surfaces read upon first glance, his paintings pose serious questions: How is a self constituted when it is not consistent from moment to moment? Where does pain end and healing begin? Joel Mesler has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Rockefeller Center, New York (2024), Chateau La Coste, France (2024), Lévy Gorvy Dayan, New York (2024), the Long Museum West Bund, Shanghai (2023); David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles (2023); Lévy Gorvy, Hong Kong (2021); Harper’s Books, East Hampton, New York (2020); and Simon Lee, London (2018). Mesler lives and works in East Hampton, New York.

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CANCELLED Visiting Artist Lecture | Roberto Lugo

We are sorry to say that this lecture with Roberto Lugo has been cancelled. To learn more about our Visiting Artists and Critics Program: https://www.andersonranch.org/programs/visiting-artists/ To see a full list of Visiting Artists, Critics and other lectures, please visit:https://www.andersonranch.org/events/ Roberto Lugo creates defiant genre-mixing works that confront the function and subject matter of high art objects from Classical Antiquity, East Asia, the Italian Renaissance, seventeenth-century Europe, and beyond. Using the ancient medium of clay as his canvas, Lugo both calls attention to intergenerational experiences of racial injustice while celebrating African American and Latino culture. Ceramic as an artistic medium is important to Lugo because of its anthropological context. Over the course of history, finely-crafted ceramic objects stood as a symbol of class, privilege, and the aristocracy. Lugo intervenes in these histories, and countless more, to create a new mode of storytelling that blends narrative and portraiture with cross-disciplinary techniques and time-honored forms in order to introduce those notably absent from the art historical canon. The result is distinctive works in clay unified by Lugo’s call for representation. Roberto Lugo holds a BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute and an MFA from Penn State. His work has been featured in exhibitions at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, and the Museum of Arts and Design in New York, among others. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including a 2019 Pew Fellowship, a Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon Polsky Rome Prize, a US Artist Award, and most recently the Heinz Award for the Arts. His work is found in the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, The High Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Brooklyn Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Walters Art Museum, and more.

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Visiting Artist Lecture | Brian Rochefort

Never miss an artist lecture! Subscribe to our channel @AndersonRanchArtsCenter To learn more about our Visiting Artists and Critics Program: https://www.andersonranch.org/programs/visiting-artists/ To see a full list of Visiting Artists, Critics and other lectures, please visit:https://www.andersonranch.org/events/ Brian Rochefort is a mixed-media sculptor whose work expands upon more traditional techniques, to produce objects which suggest otherworldly landscapes through their vibrant forms and textures. Rochefort’s abstract organic forms, rich in textural patterns and vibrant shifts in hues, draw inspiration from his extensive expeditions to remote and secluded landscapes, such as the Amazon Rainforest, the Galápagos Islands, Bolivia, and Africa. Throughout Rochefort’s oeuvre, each unique sculpture reflects a profound connection to the natural world. At the core of Rochefort’s artistic process lies a blend of creation and destruction. Beginning with unfired clay, Rochefort employs a method that involves layering each object with a variety of colorants and glazes, infusing each object with an element of spontaneous uncertainty. Through meticulous airbrushing and the use of proprietary glazes and techniques of his own invention, Rochefort transforms his sculptures into chromatically rich marvels, reminiscent of natural formations found in subterranean cave systems and marine habitats. Central to Rochefort’s artistic vision is the exploration of otherworldly surfaces and forms. His sculptures often feature interior spaces adorned with pooled glazes and melted glass, evoking the mysterious depths of subterranean landscapes. Rochefort’s work challenges the technical confines of traditional ceramics, noting the inspiration of pioneering artists including Ron Nagle, Ken Price, and Kathy Butterly, and cites a broad range of abstract painters and sculptors including Franz West, Joan Mitchell, and Albert Oehlen as touchstones for his work. Pushing his medium into inventive new realms, Rochefort’s creations are imbued with a deep ecological consciousness, embodying the essence of fragile ecosystems that serve as testament to his commitment to environmental stewardship. Brian Rochefort holds a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, 2007 and participated in the Lillian Fellowship Residency at the Archie Bray Foundation, 2009. Rochefort’s first solo museum exhibition, Absorption by the Sun, was exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Santa Barbara, CA, 2019. His work has been featured in museum exhibitions Artifices Instables, Stories of Ceramics at Nouveau Musee National de Monaco, Monte Carlo, Monaco; Cool Clay at Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA; Regarding George Ohr at Boca Raton Museum of Art, FL; and From Funk to Punk at Everson Museum of Art, NY. He lives and works in Los Angeles, California.

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Take a contemporary and experimental approach to sumi ink drawing - this summer at the Ranch.

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Take a guess, can you crack the code of Hien’s latest creations?

Take a guess, can you crack the code of Hien’s latest creations? Meet Hien Nguyen (they/she), our artist-in-residence who was born and raised in Saigon, Vietnam. Hien creates immersive sculptures that reflect the experiences of immigrants in America, especially first-generation Vietnamese. By utilizing Vietnamese folklore and history, their work evokes empathy and nurtures concepts that have anchored them in their experience. Using wood and fabrication techniques, Hien creates installations and game-like objects that facilitate interaction and are thought-provoking.

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Advice for Artists: When to Push Back

As an artist, there will be times when you feel pushed to do things that you don't want to do. Maybe it's a commission that doesn't fit your style, or a workshop where the teacher is pushing their own agenda. In this video, photography artist-in-residence Rey Londres talk about how to know when to push back and stay true to yourself as an artist. For more artist inspiration, creativity and community follow us @AndersonRanchArtsCenter

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Advice for Artists: How to Follow Your Obsessions and Turn It Into a Career

Are you an artist who's been struggling to find your way? Are you feeling lost and confused about what to do next? Watch this video with artist-in-residence AO Roberts for advice from on how to follow your obsessions and turn them into a successful career. For more artist inspiration, creativity and community follow us @AndersonRanchArtsCenter

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Artist Advice: 3 Tips for Trusting Your Artistic Practice

As an artist, it can be difficult to trust your creative practice. You may second guess yourself or feel like you're not "good enough." In this video, artist-in-residence Amythest Warrington offer tips for trusting your artistic process, making mistakes and staying connected to your creative intuition. For more artist inspiration, creativity and community follow us @AndersonRanchArtsCenter

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Ever wondered how a photograph transforms into a unique piece of art? #screenprinting

Get a sneak peek into the process of creating multilayered, dynamic, and unique screen prints from original photographic imagery. Watch as participants bring their vision to life, layer by layer, color by color, transforming a simple photograph into a vibrant work of art. Don't miss out on future print making workshops! Subscribe to our channel @AndersonRanchArtsCenter

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Pumpkin peep with priceless pastel p-o-p! #pumpkincraft #jackolantern

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Abstract geometric painting in acrylic with Rob Hill #paintingideas

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