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Mid-Manhattan Library

The New York Public Library

40th Street and 5th Avenue

New York, NY 10016

212-340-0871

The Art Collection is pleased to host the eighth lecture in the series addressing the growing needs and concerns of independent creative workforce in New York City.

Program competition is ever-growing, and weak portfolio presentation often eliminates a large number of applicants.  Portfolio feedback can be difficult for artists to obtain, as many funders and organizations do not offer panel comments. Melissa Potter will lecture on creating an artist portfolio that best represents your work for a variety of application procedures including exhibitions, special project proposals, residencies, and grants.

She will cover strengthening of all the various components of a packet:  resumes, visual materials, artist statements, project narratives, and recommendation letters to avoid some of the common pitfalls artists often face when putting together challenging proposals.  Effective time management will also be discussed in order to maximize artist opportunities.

Melissa Potter is a visual artist who has exhibited at venues including White Columns, New York, NY and the Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY through the Artist in the Marketplace program. She holds an MFA from Mason school of Arts, Rutgers University, NJ and a BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University,  Richmond, VA. In spring of 2006 she was a Fulbright Traditional Scholar implementing a hand papermaking program at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Belgrade in Belgrade, Serbia.  She has been the recipient of other awards and residencies to Serbia including ArtsLink, and the Trust for Mutual Understanding through which she has collaborated with artists from the Former Yugoslavia and taught workshops on papermaking throughout Serbia and Bosnia. She is currently working as an independent consultant on Tremaine-Funded workshops project at College Art Association.   She also lectures on professional development for visual artists at colleges, universities and arts organizations throughout the U. S. and consults on cultural development projects internationally.