2024 Artch Workshop Series
We are thrilled to renew Art Volt’s collaboration with Artch to offer another series of in-person and online professional training workshops this summer. Artch is an initiative whose mission is to identify, educate and disseminate the work of emerging Quebec contemporary artists.
How to Register
These workshops are available to students registered for graduation and/or to recent alumni who have graduated from Concordia University’s Faculty of Fine Arts, within the last three years.
Places are limited and will be allocated on a first come, first serve basis.
To register, please email the following details to artvolt@concordia.ca:
Name
Year of graduation
Program and department (ex: BFA, Art History)
Please specify the workshop(s) you would like to attend.
Please include a proof of graduation (your diploma or a screen capture of your graduation approval status from your Student Hub).
Workshops
FRENCH - Friday, May 31rst – 9:30am, with Charlotte Olivier
IN PERSON - Carrefour Jeunesse emploi Montréal centre-ville: 460 Sainte-Catherine St W bureau 602, Montreal, Quebec H3B 1A7
This workshop is designed as a guide to help participants acquire the tools and knowledge necessary to launch their career as artists. From the development of artistic identity to the creation of a portfolio, through the promotion of their work to the management of their network, participants will learn about all the steps necessary to achieve their goals and how to plan their day-to-day lives from this perspective.
ENGLISH - Friday, May 31st – 1:30pm to 4:30pm, with naakita feldman-kiss
FRENCH - Friday, June 7th – 1:30pm to 4:30pm, with Eric Dufresne-Arbique
IN PERSON - Carrefour Jeunesse emploi Montréal centre-ville: 460 Sainte-Catherine St W bureau 602, Montreal, Quebec H3B 1A7
This workshop will explore different tools and techniques to help artists as they write about their practice and their artworks. The session will work toward crafting two texts for the promotion and dissemination of their work: the artist statement and the artist bio. There will be an overview of uses and purposes of these texts, different formats and examples, several writing exercises, and time enough to draft. After the session, artists will be invited to share their writing with the workshop leader for edits and suggestions to support them as they finalize their texts. By the end of the training, artists will have creative and succinct artist statements and bios to support their practices.
ENGLISH - Friday, June 14th – 9:30am to 12:30pm, with Nick Maturo from ELAN Quebec
IN PERSON - Carrefour Jeunesse emploi Montréal centre-ville: 460 Sainte-Catherine St W bureau 602, Montreal, Quebec H3B 1A7
During this training, participants will study the main types of financial support that exist: grant programs from public funds, various forms of funding from private funds and different ways to fund an artistic research or event. In each case, the trainer will present the various steps of preparation to write an application and the different deadlines for each one. The artists will also see how the different types of resources can be complementary. Several tips and tricks will also be delivered during this training.
FRENCH - Friday, June 14th – 1:30pm to 4:30pm, with Julie Picard
IN PERSON - Carrefour Jeunesse emploi Montréal centre-ville: 460 Sainte-Catherine St W bureau 602, Montreal, Quebec H3B 1A7
ENGLISH - Wednesday, July 10th – 5:30pm to 8:30pm, with Chris Enns
ONLINE
Are your finances a major source of stress? In this workshop, we’ll talk about the fundamentals of finance and how to start building a financial technique. We’ll work with tools that help connect your money to what really matters, manage money when your income is variable, and strategies to pay off debt/save for the big things you’re working towards.
ENGLISH - Friday, June 21st – 9:30am to 12:30pm, with Kama La Mackerel
IN PERSON - Carrefour Jeunesse emploi Montréal centre-ville: 460 Sainte-Catherine St W bureau 602, Montreal, Quebec H3B 1A7
In this workshop, at once theoretical and practical, we will analyze different power dynamics in the ways in which they play out in the arts and cultural fields, and in society at large. Through different exercises, we will develop personal and collective strategies to challenge them.
FRENCH - Wednesday, June 12th – 1:30pm to 4:30pm, with Eliane Elbogene
ENGLISH - Friday, June 21st – 1:30am to 4:30pm, with Eliane Elbogene
IN PERSON - Carrefour Jeunesse emploi Montréal centre-ville: 460 Sainte-Catherine St W bureau 602, Montreal, Quebec H3B 1A7
While being an artist is and has always been a creative endeavor, the business of art requires an in-depth understanding of intellectual property rights attached to artistic works and how best to monetise them. This workshop aims to educate participants on the common intellectual property issues that artists face. We will explore copyright law and how artists might claim or run afoul of its protections.
ENGLISH - Friday, July 5th – 9:30am to 12:30pm, with Gabrielle Bouchard
FRENCH - Friday, July 5th – 1:30pm to 4:30pm, with Gabrielle Bouchard
IN PERSON - Carrefour Jeunesse emploi Montréal centre-ville: 460 Sainte-Catherine St W bureau 602, Montreal, Quebec H3B 1A7
This workshop will provide an introduction to the ways in which the art market operates and the criteria that set the price of an artwork. This workshop will be an opportunity to analyze the factors determining the market value of a work (artist’s CV, nature of the work, production costs, prices charged by competition, etc.) and to identify the various factors that influence the art market. Participants will have some time to reflect on the criteria used to assess the monetary value of their work and they will be better equipped to set their own price list. The first part of the training will take the form of a lecture, followed by a discussion during which the participants will be invited to assess the value of their own work based on the art market standards discussed previously.
FRENCH - Friday, June 28th – 9:30pm to 12pm, with the RCAAQ
IN PERSON - Carrefour Jeunesse emploi Montréal centre-ville: 460 Sainte-Catherine St W bureau 602, Montreal, Quebec H3B 1A7
Artist-run centers are non-profit organizations operated by artists for artists. Promoting the values of participation, experimentation and innovation, the main activity of these institutions is to encourage the production of artworks, their promotion and research in contemporary art. All this, in spaces that exist outside of commercial structures, independent of the imperatives of the art market. They offer artists spaces, equipment, services and specialized resources, they propose reflection, training, and professionalization activities, and welcome artists for residencies and production projects.
