The artist statement can be one of the most feared and despised part of an application. However, they are actually necessary for grant panelists, curators, and others to figure out your relationship to your work and why it deserves funding or to be in their festival, etc. A good artist statement should reflect you as an artist and give a little insight into how your creative mind works.

Join playwright and arts administrator, Andie Arthur, on a workshop to help you craft an artist
statement that works for you. She'll talk about the why organizations ask for artist statements, go through different examples, and help you craft your own that feels grounded in your personality and work.

Andie Arthur is the co-founding Artistic Director of Lost Girls Theatre, the executive director of the South Florida Theatre League, and faculty at New World School of the Arts. She’s a graduate of the playwriting program at The Theatre School at DePaul University and an alum of the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs Playwright Development Program and the Kennedy Center’s Summer Playwriting Intensive. She also works as a freelance new play dramaturg having worked with Florida Stage, City Theatre, FIU’s The Greenhouse, and The Naked Stage as well as with individual playwrights.

Arthur’s plays include In Common Hours (finalist for the 2005 David Mark Cohen Award), Dueling Edwards (finalist for City Theatre’s 2012 National Short Play Contest), Choose Your Own Adventure: The Lost Chapter, Dinner at the End of the World, Juliet Among the Changelings, Rev. Nathaniel’s Daughter, She Flies with Her Own Wings, Abacus Jones: Boy Detective, A Girl’s Guide to Saving the Universe, The Secret of the Biological Clock, and Outcasts of Eden. Her work has been produced at Eclectic Full Contact Theatre, Lost Girls Theatre, MicroTheater Miami, New Theatre, The Alliance Theatre Lab, Marquette University, and The Theatre School at DePaul University.