Critiques, Mentoring Sessions and Programs

Rhonda Schaller Studio offers critiques, mentoring sessions and programs to emerging and re-emerging artists. We will tailor sessions to each artist’s particular needs, to where they are in the art and life cycle. One meeting might do it, or a series or program may be set up based on what you require.

Critiques.
An honest look at your artwork with the gallery director. In person or via email.

Tips on juried shows.
Presenting your work in the right format, deciding on the right number of images to submit, writing an artist statement and presenting your career history in a positive light.

Perhaps you wonder about the following.
How does an artist get a show? Get a catalogue? Advance their career? Sell their work? How do you enter or re-enter the art world in a viable way?
Can you self-promote and be successful? Do I need an art dealer? Do I have to pay to show? What do I do now?

Mentoring is an important part of our philosophy, of our reason for being.

We can arrange mentoring sessions where you meet with our Gallery director, a seasoned and successful fulltime artist, or optionally with other professional artists from our curatorial staff. In all cases you will be meeting with a knowledgeable and experienced artist with a successful career of their own, willing to meet and share with you on the phone or in their own studios.

Bring questions, float ideas, gain confidence, receive guidance.

We also offer mentoring for professional artists looking to enhance their exhibition visibility, for re-emerging artists looking for guidance on the “how to”, the “what now”, the “where can I show next” questions that relate to creating, re-creating and sustaining a viable art career.

In sum, here are many of the topics we’ll cover in any mentoring program:
Juried shows, university collections, commercial galleries, publications, regional exposure, grants, hanging and lighting a show, marketing skills and publicity, sales, name recognition, building a collector base, re-entering the art marketplace, reinventing yourself and your career, and where can I show.

Our mentoring approach is designed especially for artists interested in learning how to navigate the art world in a different way.

You are never too young or too old, too early or too late to express your authentic creativity and market yourself with integrity, discipline, and skill. We are not interested in the next big thing.

We are interested in authenticity – the authentic, passionate, soulful expressions of life – and helping artists find their center within the gallery world.

One on one sessions, 30 - 45 minutes, with the Gallery Director are $95 each, or with curatorial staff – $75. Email us with questions at info@rhondaschallerchelsea.com, or give us a call at 212-967-1338.