Museums and Non-Profits have their own special language and set of expectations receiving materials. You only have one chance to make a first impression. Make it impactful by creating the best and most professional presentation of your art practice.
Meet Andi Campognone
What you will learn
This program, created in a conversational style with two friends, Artist Kimberly Brooks and Curator Andi Campognone, is divided into four monthly assignments that take you through creating the materials, researching and approaching the best institutions and organizations for you as an artist.
HOW IT WORKS
Each month has a different critical focus starting with your TRIFOLD, an essential tool for communicating with museums and non-profits that may or may not be familiar with your work. This essential document encapsulates and communicates who you are and what you've accomplished as an artist.
Month 2 focuses on researching the right institutions to approach. Month 3 focuses on the critical cover letter to include. Month 4 focuses on how to create a proposal that curators and museums want to act upon.
Every month is accompanied with a live sessions with Andi personally. It is rare that an artist will be able to complete each assignment in just one month, hence the subscription format. You can work at your own pace and take as long as you wish for each part.
Additional modules for other items are available for those who stay along with recordings of guest artists and curators for thoughtful critiques and advice as you move forward on this journey of getting your work in institutions.
Curriculum
Andi Campognone has over 30 years experience as an arts and culture leader in the western region of the United States. Campognone focuses on promoting arts and culture through museum quality projects that include the production of books, films, community engagement, and traveling exhibitions. Campognone Directs the Kipaipai Professional Development Workshops encouraging artists in building strong strategies for their creative practices. She built, programmed, and opened the Museum of Art and History (MOAH) in Lancaster, California and served as Manager of Arts and Museums for over a decade. She also has served as Cultural Arts Commissioner for the City of Pomona, and wrote and adoption of Pomona’s Cultural Arts Master Plan and Art in Public Places Policy. She currently also serves as a Director on the Lancaster Museum and Public Art Foundation Board, Director on the Bear Valley Springs Cultural Arts Association, contracted consulting mentor for the Bakersfield Museum of Art, is a grant panelist for Los Angeles County Arts Commission and California Community Foundation.
https://andicampognone.com
Wise Words from Shana Nys Dambrot
Andi Campognone is not only a true partner in cultural amplification but also one of the most visionary institutional museum leaders in Southern California. Campognone has an unparalleled ability to see the larger cultural narrative while nurturing the intimate, personal stories that shape it. Her leadership is rooted in authenticity, empathy, and a genuine passion for the arts.
As well, Campognone is a tireless champion for independent artists, consistently creating space for new, underrepresented, and essential voices within the museum world and beyond. She understands the power of art to transform communities and conversations, and she approaches every project with heart, intelligence, and an unshakeable commitment to integrity. Andi Campognone is a treasure and a credit to the Southern California art landscape — a leader, collaborator, and cultural steward whose impact resonates far beyond the walls of any institution she touches.
—Shana Nys Dambrot
Los Angeles art critic, author, and curator
About These Workshops
This special workshop is in partnership with Artist Author Kimberly Brooks founded this School in 2019 and has mentored hundreds of artists internationally with this suite of workshops designed just for artists. As a faculty member of Kipaipai, founded by Andi Campognone, Brooks knows how essential it is for artists to be equipped with the final act of reaching out to museums and non profits in addition to just galleries, which led to this partnership. We're thrilled to be offering GET SHOWN to our audience of artists.
