Show Your Work Series
Online & In-Person Workshops for Artists, Performers, & Creatives
Practical tools to help you write about, photograph, film, organize, and share your creative work.
You already made the work. Sharing it shouldn't mean reinventing everything every time.
Build simple, repeatable systems for the words, photos, video, and files around your creative practice — wherever you are in the process.
Save your time and energy for making the work, and be more prepared when the next grant, application, portfolio update, press request, or opportunity comes your way.
Live online or in-person • 2–3 hour working sessions
Online co-hort (only on Zoom) - September & October 2026
In-person only (Phoenix, AZ) - November & December 2026
For artists who have ever thought:
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“Why do I have to rewrite my artist statement every single time?”
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“I wish I had filmed that rehearsal.”
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“I have thousands of photos but can never find anything.”
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“How do I turn all this footage into something I can actually use?”
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“What do grant panels, presenters, or collaborators even need to see?”
No tech expertise required.
Just curiosity and your creative work.
JUMP TO WHERE YOU NEED:
Make the work now.
Be ready to share it when the opportunity comes.
Making the work is only part of a creative practice.
Eventually someone asks for:
an artist statement.
a project description.
photos.
video.
a portfolio.
a grant application.
a website update.
press materials.
proof of something you made three years ago.
And suddenly you're searching through hard drives, rewriting the same paragraph, or wishing you'd captured something differently.
Show Your Work helps you build the words, media, and systems to future proof your work.
Instead of starting from scratch every time, you'll learn practical ways to describe, capture, organize, and share your work with more intention.
Create it once. Adapt it when you need it.
Show Your Work sessions are designed as 2–3 hour live working sessions.
You'll have time to learn, experiment, ask questions, and apply what we're discussing to your own creative practice.
Depending on the workshop, sessions may include:
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practical instruction
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examples and demonstrations
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guided exercises
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downloadable resources
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individual work time
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questions and group problem-solving
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personalized ideas and feedback
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replay access when available
Choose the session that works best for your schedule.
WRITE ABOUT YOUR WORK
Stop starting from scratch every time you have to explain what you make.
Artist statements. Grant applications. Websites. Bios. Captions. Portfolios. Interviews.
The questions change, but you're often trying to communicate the same core ideas again and again.
In Write About Your Work, you'll build a reusable language bank for your creative practice — words, phrases, themes, processes, questions, and ideas you can return to whenever you need to describe what you make.
You'll explore:
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the themes, questions, materials, and processes that shape your work
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language from past writing that's still useful
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words and phrases that actually sound like you
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recurring ideas across projects
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short and longer descriptions of your practice
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adapting your language for different audiences and opportunities
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thoughtful AI and non-AI tools for getting unstuck without losing your voice (options for those who want to opt out or in of using AI tools)
Your take away:
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A reusable language bank of words, themes, and phrases connected to your creative practice
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Stronger starting points for artist statements, bios, grants, websites, captions, and applications
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A clearer sense of how to adapt the same core language for different audiences instead of rewriting everything from scratch
First online workshop: End of September 2026
Info coming soon. RSVP below so you're the first to know registration opens.
PHOTOGRAPH YOUR WORK
Stop starting from scratch every time you have to explain what you make.
Different photographs do different jobs.
You might need a clean portfolio image, an action shot, photographs that show scale, documentation of an installation, process photos, portraits, details, or marketing images.
Photograph Your Work helps you think intentionally about what you're trying to communicate before you take the picture.
You'll explore:
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framing and composition
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angles and perspective
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light
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wide, medium, close-up, and detail images
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photographing 2D and 3D artwork
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photographing movement and performance
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documenting process
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creating useful shot lists
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choosing which images to keep and share
You don't need every photograph to do everything.
You need the right photographs for what you're trying to communicate.
Your take away:
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A repeatable shot list you can use whenever you document a project
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More intentional choices around lighting, framing, distance, angle, and composition
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A stronger collection of images for portfolios, grants, websites, social media, archives, and promotion
First online workshop: End of September 2026
Info coming soon. RSVP below so you're the first to know registration opens.
FILM YOUR WORK
Capture useful video without turning every creative moment into a film production.
You don't always need a professional camera crew (but if you do, we've got you covered!).
Sometimes you need to capture a rehearsal, performance, installation, workshop, studio experiment, teaching moment, or behind-the-scenes clip — and know what will make that footage useful later.
Film Your Work gives artists practical strategies for making stronger video with the tools they already have.
You'll explore:
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horizontal vs. vertical video
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framing and composition
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wide, medium, and close-up shots
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stability and intentional camera movement
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filming movement and performance
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basic lighting decisions
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improving audio
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filming yourself and your process
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behind-the-scenes footage
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creating useful shot lists
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knowing when your phone is enough
The goal isn't cinematic perfection.
It's making intentional choices so the footage you capture can support your portfolio, archive, marketing, grants, social media, and future opportunities.
Your take away:
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A simple approach for deciding what to film and which shots you actually need
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More confidence with framing, camera movement, stability, lighting, and sound
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Footage that is easier to turn into reels, applications, archives, websites, promotional materials, and future projects
First online workshop: End of September 2026
Info coming soon. RSVP below so you're the first to know registration opens.
ORGANIZE YOUR WORK
Make your creative archive useful to future you.
You've written the statement.
You've taken the photos.
You've filmed the work.
Now...
Where did you put it?!
Creative files have a tendency to spread across phones, computers, external drives, email attachments, cloud storage, Downloads folders, and mysteriously named files like:
FINAL_FINAL_REALFINAL_v3
Organize Your Work is about building a simple digital system that supports your practice instead of making you dread looking for things.
You'll explore:
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creating an intuitive folder structure
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naming files so you can find them later
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organizing photos, video, audio, and writing
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deciding what to keep
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working files vs. finished assets
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backup basics
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preparing materials for portfolios, grants, websites, and press
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creating an archive that can grow with your practice
The goal isn't a perfectly organized computer.
It's being able to answer:
“Where is that thing I made three years ago?”
...without losing an afternoon.
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Your take away:
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A practical folder and file-naming system you can adapt to your own creative practice
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A clearer way to connect media, writing, and documentation to individual projects
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Simple habits for organizing, backing up, and maintaining your creative archive without making file management a second job
First online workshop: TBA
Info coming soon. RSVP below so you're the first to know registration opens.
MAKE MEDIA WORK FOR YOU
Media planning for artists
Plan what you actually need to capture before you pick up the camera.
Now...
More media isn't always better.
A thousand photographs don't help much if none of them show what you actually needed.
And filming everything doesn't automatically give you useful footage for a grant, portfolio, archive, reel, website, or future project.
Make Media Work for You helps you work backward from your goals.
Instead of starting with:
“What should I film?”
we start with:
“Why am I capturing this in the first place?”
Together We'll Think Through:
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WHY are you capturing this work?
Archive? Marketing? Teaching? Funding? Portfolio? Future opportunities? -
WHO needs to see or use it?
You? Collaborators? Audiences? Funders? Presenters? Students? Press? -
WHAT needs to be captured?
Photos? Video? Audio? Writing? Interviews? Process? Performance? Details? -
HOW should you capture it?
Wide shots? Close-ups? Process footage? Portraits? Audio? Multiple angles? A complete performance? -
You'll leave with a practical media plan or shot list designed around your actual creative goals.
Your take away:
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A documentation plan shaped around your actual creative and professional goals
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A prioritized list of what to photograph, film, write down, or save—and why
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A more sustainable way to decide what, when, and how much to document so media supports your practice instead of distracting from it
First online workshop: TBA
Info coming soon. RSVP below so you're the first to know registration opens.
Choose the workshop you need right now
You don't need to take the entire series.
Start with the part of sharing your work that currently feels hardest.
More than a webinar.
It's time to actually work on your work.
Show Your Work sessions are designed as 2–3 hour live working sessions.
Choose how much support you need:
REPLAY
Starting at $39 (or 3 payments of $13)
Learn on your own schedule.
Includes the workshop replay and accompanying digital resources when available.
LIVE WORKSHOP
Starting at $79(or 3 payments of $27)
Join the full 2–3 hour online working session.
Includes:
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live instruction
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guided exercises
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time to work on your own material
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questions and problem-solving
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workshop resources
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replay access when available
LIVE + SMALL GROUP LAB
Starting at $119 (or 3 payments of $40)
For artists who want more individualized support.
Includes the live workshop and resources plus a capped small-group follow-up session where we can spend more time on your specific work, questions, challenges, and next steps.
Space is intentionally limited so everyone has room for meaningful feedback.
Available formats may vary by workshop.
Who is Show Your Work for?
Show Your Work is designed for artists whose work doesn't always fit neatly into one box.
Visual artists, dancers, choreographers, performers, filmmakers, musicians, teaching artists, interdisciplinary makers, creative technologists, educators, and other curious creative humans are welcome.
You do not need:
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advanced technical skills
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expensive equipment
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the “perfect” artist statement
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a polished portfolio
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a giant social media following
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to know exactly what you're doing before you arrive
Bring the work you already have.
We'll start there.
Bring Show Your Work to your community
Show Your Work workshops are also available for:
arts organizations • universities and colleges • residency programs • festivals • artist cohorts • schools • community organizations • professional development programs
Choose an existing workshop or build a multi-session series around the needs of your artists, students, educators, or participants.
Group and institutional pricing is available.
Ask About Bringing Show Your Work to Your Community
Show Your Work is a set of workshops and resources designed to help artists capture, organize, and share their creative work with clarity and confidence.
This approach is rooted in the belief that technology should support your creative vision, not block it.