Program Description
Event Details
In this exciting working session artists will create:
An Artist Statement
An Artist Bio
Craft an elevator pitch to talk about their work.
You will leave prepared to approach galleries, curators, grants and proposals.
Preference will be given to Yonkers artists and emerging artists and to artists that have not previously attended one of our bootcamps.
On the day of the BootCamp, artists must bring a laptop.
Brigitta Varadi is a Hungarian-born self-taught artist living and working in Pine Plains, NY.
Varadi is a 2021 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in the Interdisciplinary category and a grantee of the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, the Arts Council of Ireland, the Leitrim and the Roscommon County Councils and Culture Ireland. She has received residencies and fellowships at MacDowell, the Museum of Arts and Design, the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, the NARS Foundation, the Marble House Project, the LOCIS-European Cultural Program, and the Leitrim Sculpture Center, among others
Varadi has had solo exhibitions at the Al Held Foundation, commissioned by the River Valley Arts Collective, Civitella Ranieri, Burlington City Arts Center, Westbeth Gallery, Budapest Gallery, Leitrim Sculpture Center, and others. Selected group exhibitions include the Katonah Museum, Spartanburg Art Museum, Equity Gallery, Marfa Open, Hunt Museum, National Design and Craft Gallery, Culturel Irlandais, and many others.
Her work can be found in public collections, including a site-specific government commission for the Department of Education and Science in Athlone, Ireland, a public art commission by Sligo County Council, and by Roscommon County Council, Ireland.
As Residency Director of the non-profit organization Chashama North (ChaNorth), she supports artists by giving them space to create and showcase their work while fostering community development through the arts. Brigitta supports the artist community by creating a diverse program and environment that fosters the interdisciplinary exchange of ideas, perspectives, and expertise.