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Summer Series: Las Nietas de Nonó and Erin Christovale
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Summer Series: Athena LaTocha & Valerie Cassel Oliver
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Wise words from arist Alex Hedison.
“There are very few things that we don’t make up... If you’re going to make up stories, make up good ones.”
As part of her Visiting Artist Residency at Anderson Ranch, Alex has been experimenting with ceramics, embracing the challenges of a new medium. Known for her photographic series A Brief Infinity (2022) and her Sundance-premiered documentary ALOK, Alex continues to explore creativity across disciplines.
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🔍 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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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David Antonio Cruz uses painting and performance to explore the visibility and intersectionality of brown, black and queer bodies. Cruz is a professor and Concentration Head of Painting at Columbia University School of the Arts. He has exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum, National Portrait Gallery, ICA Philadelphia, and was awarded the Joan Mitchell Painting and Sculptor Grant. He received his MFA from Yale University. Learn more about David’s work.
As part of our Artists-in-Residence Program, we invite internationally recognized artists and critics to give critical studio feedback to our program participants allowing residents a chance to receive constructive input on the direction of their work. During their time at the Ranch, visiting critics typically give a public lecture and spend one to three days critiquing resident or student work.
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Damien Davis is a Newark-based artist and curator whose work recontextualizes cultural symbols to challenge identity and history. He has exhibited at institutions internationally, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Arts and Design. Davis holds a Masters degree in Visual Arts Administration from NYU.
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To see a full list of Visiting Artists, Critics and other lectures, please visit:https://www.andersonranch.org/events/
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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/
Ana María Hernando, from Argentina (b. 1959, Buenos Aires), is a Colorado-based multidisciplinary artist whose work focuses on the feminine, using empathy to make the invisible visible, and to question our preconceptions of the other and each other, including nature and the earth, their worth, and value. In her installations, Ana María uses textiles in abundance, and sometimes includes the work of women from around Latin America and beyond, from embroideries of cloistered nuns in Buenos Aires, to mountains of tulle, to the weavings and wares of Peruvian women from the Andes. She has a BFA from California College of the Arts, Oakland, and studied at the Museum School, Boston, Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes Pueyrredón, Buenos Aires, and has a BS from the National School of Early Education Eccleston in Buenos Aires.
Ana was the 2020 Prix Henry Clews in Sculpture awarded by La Napoule Art Foundation, with a one-year residency and solo major show at their Château in France. Other solo exhibitions include Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Oklahoma Contemporary, CU Art Museum with a catalogue, Marfa Contemporary, Denver Botanic Gardens, BmoCA and Robischon Gallery in Denver.
In January 2024, her solo show To Let the Sky Know / Dejar que el cielo sepa, opened at Madison Square Park in New York with an exhibition catalogue, inaugurating the 20th anniversary of the MSP Conservancy’s public art program. A portion of this show later traveled to Aspen, where it was shown in My Longing Doesn’t Quiet / Mi añoranza no se calla along with new sculptural work at the Rubey Park Transit Center and Sister Cities Plaza through the City of Aspen and the Red Bricks Center for the Arts. It has now traveled to two other public spaces in Denver.
Ana represented Colorado in 2024 Women to Watch exhibition at the National Museum of Women in the Arts with Nadar en el diluvio de aguas caldas / To Swim in the Deluge of Warm Waters, which is now part of the museum’s permanent collection. She is a 2023 Joan Mitchell Fellow and was a 2021-2023 RedLine Resource Artist. She is featured in the documentary Time and Other Materials by Amie Knox and Chad Herschberger, premiering in Denver in May of 2025. Ana is working towards an extensive solo show for MCA Denver and another for the Fine Arts Center in Colorado Springs, CO, both opening in the Spring of 2026. Learn more about Ana’s work.
The Visiting Artists program is a core part of the Anderson Ranch Arts Center experience, welcoming contemporary artists across disciplines to work on campus through residencies and special projects. Artists receive dedicated time, space, and technical support to develop new work and advance their practice. Visiting artists engage with students and residents through studio visits, critiques, and public lectures, creating a meaningful exchange that enriches the Ranch community and the broader public. Learn more.
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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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