Build Your Own Workshop at Jessica's studio:
1. Select the workshop that most interests you from the options below.
2. Gather three people who are interested in taking the workshop with you.
3. Email first, second, and third choice dates/times for the workshop preferred by you and your friends.
Arts Marketing workshops are three hours long and can be held at Burko's SoWa Studio: 35 Wareham Street, Boston, 02118 or at an agreed upon location withing greater Boston.
Creative workshops are four hours long, divided between two sessions in ordered to allow for independent work and feedback. Workshops are held at Jessica Burko's SoWa Studio: 35 Wareham Street, Boston, 02118
Arts Marketing workshops:
The Power of Arts Marketing
Strengthen your marketing efforts with a review of your current marketing materials and web presence and receive feedback and suggestions to take your efforts to the next professional level.
$75, locations within Greater Boston
Writing for Artists
Tired of insisting the art speaks for itself? Help your art career fall into place by giving your work, and yourself, a voice. Galleries, the press, and anyone with a grant to offer, want to read your words. You need words on your website, blog, and in social media. Learn and practice what makes an effective bio, artist statement, and CV.
$75, locations within Greater Boston
Get the Pic – Prep the Pic
Getting your art in of front viewers, collectors, and curators means you need great photos of your creations and you need to know the right way to share and handle your image files. Through this workshop you will learn tricks and tips for documenting your work, and best practices for naming, organizing and sizing your image files.
$75, locations within Greater Boston
Creative workshops:
Paper Quilts
Using traditional hand-stitching and machine sewing techniques, students will create small paper quilts from life's ephemera to commemorate, memorialize or visually narrate a moment or memory. Each paper quilt will bind together photos, letters, news clippings and papers of all sorts that share a common thread. Bring your own sewing machine if you have one. Students provide most of their own collage materials.
$90, some materials included
Image Transfers
Learn a range of transfer techniques and how to use materials such as gel medium, encaustic, adhesive, and natural solvent to transfer images and text to paper, wood, and other substrates.
$100, most materials included
Creative Critique Session
Are you starting a new series, struggling with a creative block, figuring out how to proceed through a hurdle? Artists will present their work for feedback on strengths and weaknesses in this opportunity to help you further develop your work.
$85, locations within Greater Boston
