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Artists, how do you create a portfolio so strong it makes it easy for curators to say yes to exhibiting you, funding you, or inviting you?
Join Artist Commons’ director, @HaiverArt, for a 2 1/2 hour live webinar over Zoom (including Q&A) on How to Build a Portfolio.
TOPICS: We’ll move quickly from foundational principles to advanced portfolio strategies, including:
- The questions every artist should ask before you decide what belongs in your portfolio
- Why strong work can still result in a weak portfolio
- How to turn a pile of images into a persuasive, coherent story about your practice
- How to make your practice legible to a gallerist or curator
- Ways to show range without making your art practice feel fragmented
- How to sequence for a stronger rhythm
Register here👇
ALT Artist Commons - Live Webinar: How to Build a Portfolio with Haiver - Monday, November 2nd at 7–9:30pm ET - Live on Zoom
Monday, November 2, 2026 · 7–9:30pm ET
Admission: $65
Early-bird registration: $49 (through Sat, Oct 31)
REGISTER: artistcommons.art/shop?produ…
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Make: Text to Image - Community Event at @Artist_Commons with Robin Morris was a lot fun ☺️
The word was "dapper"
(I know he looks homeless, that's why I wrote FANCY ✨)
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Huge thanks to the Generative Art Foundation and you, Artist Commons! 🙏
It is a great experience and a tremendous opportunity to develop. Appreciate you all! ❤️🔥
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I am so happy and honored to be part of the 2026 Generative Art Foundation Creative Coding Award. Thank you so much @Artist_Commons and @genartfound for selecting me and these incredible artists.
Because of Artist Commons, I have grown as an artist, connected with like-minded people, be inspired by new ideas through conversations, and learned how to develop my practice. It has given me the confidence to expand my work, leading up to my @artblocks_io x @opensea collection ‘Starlight’.
Appreciate all the love 💫
Introducing the six inaugural recipients of the Generative Art Foundation Creative Coding Award!
Made possible by the Generative Art Foundation (@genartfound), the award supports artists working with technology through a year with Artist Commons including one-on-one mentorship, a small intimate cohort, weekly crits, and lectures and conversations on the business, philosophy, and history of art.
Congratulations to our 2026 recipients, and heartfelt thanks to the Generative Art Foundation for making this year of growth possible.
Andee Collard (@andeecollard)
Eliza Struthers-Jobin (@iamelizasj)
Jonathan Barbeau (@JBarbeau_Art)
Nygilia McClain (@nygi_xxv)
Paweł Dudko (@PawelDudko)
Tomie Seo
#GenerativeArtFoundation #CreativeCodingAward #ArtistCommons #CreativeCoding #GenerativeArt #CodeArt #AlgorithmicArt #TechArt
ALT Introducing the 2026 recipients of the Generative Art Foundation Creative Coding Award. Andee Collard, Eliza Struthers-Jobin, Jonathan Barbeau, Nygilia McClain, Paweł Dudko, Tomie Seo. Six artists. One year with Artist Commons. Supporting direct mentorship, weekly crits and lectures. Artist Commons x Generative Art Foundation.
Introducing the six inaugural recipients of the Generative Art Foundation Creative Coding Award!
Made possible by the Generative Art Foundation (@genartfound), the award supports artists working with technology through a year with Artist Commons including one-on-one mentorship, a small intimate cohort, weekly crits, and lectures and conversations on the business, philosophy, and history of art.
Congratulations to our 2026 recipients, and heartfelt thanks to the Generative Art Foundation for making this year of growth possible.
Andee Collard (@andeecollard)
Eliza Struthers-Jobin (@iamelizasj)
Jonathan Barbeau (@JBarbeau_Art)
Nygilia McClain (@nygi_xxv)
Paweł Dudko (@PawelDudko)
Tomie Seo
#GenerativeArtFoundation #CreativeCodingAward #ArtistCommons #CreativeCoding #GenerativeArt #CodeArt #AlgorithmicArt #TechArt
ALT Introducing the 2026 recipients of the Generative Art Foundation Creative Coding Award. Andee Collard, Eliza Struthers-Jobin, Jonathan Barbeau, Nygilia McClain, Paweł Dudko, Tomie Seo. Six artists. One year with Artist Commons. Supporting direct mentorship, weekly crits and lectures. Artist Commons x Generative Art Foundation.
Artists, what are the questions that keep you up at night: Is what I'm making art? Will people understand it? Hasn't it all been done before?
In Artist Commons, our resident philosopher of art, Dr. Rebecca Millsop (@_noumenal), helps us explore these questions and connect them to the work we're making. As a practicing artist herself, she turns abstract concepts into something practical we can use in our studios. It's a big reason current students love her lectures.
In this clip, Rebecca introduces the four big questions that structure our year together. Which ones have been on your mind when making art?
#Philosophy #PhilosophyOfArt #ArtHistory #ArtEducation #StudioArt
We're proud to announce the establishment of the Generative Art Foundation Creative Coding Award, made possible by a generous grant from the Generative Art Foundation (@genartfound). Over the next two years, their gift will fund scholarships to Artist Commons for artists working with technology so they can get the resources, mentorship, and community they need to develop their work further.
We're deeply grateful to @jeffgdavis, @ArtOnBlockchain, and the entire team at the Generative Art Foundation for investing in this community of artists and the future of this evolving field.
We're excited to, in a couple weeks, introduce the recipients of the 2026 awards 🎉
ALT Artist Commons Announced – The Generative Art Foundation Creative Coding Award – Funding scholarships to Artist Commons for artists working with technology so they can get the resources, mentorship, and community they need to develop their work – Artist Commons x Generative Art Foundation
Artists, what's the one thing you shouldn't do at an art fair?
Gallerist @stephensantoro_ from @VertuFineArt breaks it down for us.
If you've got other dos and don'ts, share them in the comments!
#artfairs #artadvice #arteducation
“There should be no art emergencies.”
– Stephen Santoro
How should you approach art fairs as an artist?
With NYC art week almost here, this week we'll be sharing clips from curator @stephensantoro_ of @VertuFineArt to help you know the dos and don'ts.
Let us know if you'll be at the Armory Show, Independent, Spring/Break, or Printed Matter, and come say hi.
#arteducation #artistdevelopment #artfairs #artweek
How should you approach art fairs as an artist?
With NYC art week almost here, this week we'll be sharing clips from curator @stephensantoro_ of @VertuFineArt to help you know the dos and don'ts.
Let us know if you'll be at the Armory Show, Independent, Spring/Break, or Printed Matter, and come say hi.
#arteducation #artistdevelopment #artfairs #artweek
We're delighted to share our Visiting Artists in Residence this quarter were new media artist @sarahrothberg and photographer Greg Miller.
One of the things we love about Artist Commons is the chance to create opportunities for artists to spend time with other working artists. Students get to (virtually) peer behind the visiting artist's studio door, and to see how an art practice and career in the arts truly develops.
We try to take it way beyond the usual artist talk.
Sarah and Greg brought tremendous generosity to their three sessions with the students. We're so grateful to have had them as part of Artist Commons this quarter.
ALT Artist Commons Summer Visiting Artists in Residence. Greg Miller – Large-format photography and staged narrative. Sarah Rothberg – Interactive technologies and new media art.
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Artists, if you feel stuck or alone in your art practice, today is the last day to apply for @Artist_Commons summer cohorts and get the support, mentorship, and community you need around your art.
I would love to spend the next year investing in your art career and helping you build out the knowledge and skills you need to take your practice to places you haven't even imagined yet.
We’re delighted to welcome Dr. Rebecca Millsop (@_noumenal) as a new mentor for Artist Commons.
Rebecca has already been part of our larger art education community as a regular lecturer in the philosophy of art, and we’re thrilled to deepen that relationship as she begins leading her own cohorts of artists this summer.
In this info session clip, she speaks about what's impressed her most about Artist Commons: the organization, intentionality, and design of the experience, as well as the feedback methodology at the heart of the program.
As Rebecca puts it, this is not only about getting better art critiques. It’s about learning how to give better feedback, period.
We’re so excited for the artists who will get to work with her this year.
#ArtEducation #ArtistMentor #ArtCritique #ArtAdvice #OnlineArtSchool #ArtistCommons
Can’t afford to get an MFA? Artist Commons is a year-long, online development program for visual artists.
We're not an MFA, but we offer many of the things artists are looking for when they start thinking about grad school: a year-long structure, weekly feedback and portfolio reviews, artist development, one-on-one mentorship, lectures from working professionals, guest speakers and visiting artists, and a community of equally committed peers.
What would a year of in-depth support do for your art practice?
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#ArtEducation #ArtistDevelopment #ArtAdvice #MakingArt #ArtCommunity #ArtistCommons
Art history is about more than just the past. It gives artist tools to think with and helps us understand how images speak when we sit down to our own work in the studio.
One of our favorite works from Dr. Amy Raffel's art history lecture a couple weeks ago was Martha Rosler’s SEMIOTICS OF THE KITCHEN, a video performance piece that turns the domestic life, and the language/objects around it, into something strange and politically charged.
How are you using art history in your own practice?
#arthistory #contemporaryartists #arteducation #artistdevelopment
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I'm really touched that one of our students, Nick Demus (aka the illustrator/painter @Chumwizards) recorded a testimonial about his experience in @Artist_Commons this year 🫶
You should check out his art. The growth across his last few paintings has been a joy to watch.
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti and the Italian Futurists thought traditional language was too slow for the modern world.
Grammar, punctuation, syntax, even the rectangle of the page — all of it belonged to the past. So they broke language open.
Letters exploded across the page. They abandoned punctuation. Words could collide instead of sitting in neat sentences. Each change helped express the violence of modern life.
It’s one of the strange and fascinating legacies of Futurism: a movement with deeply troubling politics, but also a radical understanding that language itself could become visual art.
What happens when words stop explaining the world and start mirroring it?
#ArtHistory #ModernArt #Futurism #ItalianFuturism #AvantGarde