The GEEX Writing Center supports writing and scholarship for glass learners and educators. Modeled after community writing centers, the GEEX Writing Center offers similar guidance with experts who share a mutual material vocabulary.
GEEX Writing Center
Summer 2026
Applying for a scholarship, grant, exhibition, residency, or grad school? The GEEX Writing Center is here to help hone your writing for maximum impact!
To increase accessibility, GEEX offers this resource at a sliding scale. We ask participants to pay what they are able in support of this intent.
Request a Consultation
For general inquiries and off-season appointments, email [email protected] with a short description of your writing needs for a 40-minute consult. Pending facilitators’ availability, the GEEX Team will get back to you with potential meeting times.
Learn more about the Writing Center
Engagement Size
1:1 Consultations
Schedule
Summer writing consults are available by request on a case-by-case basis, pending facilitators’ availability. Please contact [email protected] to inquire. Facilitators may not be able to honor all summer requests.
Timeframe
40-minute meeting with materials submitted at least 3 days in advance for review and meeting preparation.
Word Count
250-500 words
Scope
Ana Matisse has a background in arts writing and can help shape your artist statement, applications, or other pieces of writing for various audiences and contexts: “I can help tailor new or existing writing to certain audiences, while maintaining the artist’s own voice.”
Sara is offering help in: deepening artists’ research and point of view, crafting and editing writing for various audiences, translating visual ideas into writing, and building press releases.
Facilitators offer general feedback on clarity of ideas, structure, style, and voice, with minor copy-edits suggesting alternative approaches/wording where applicable.
Cost
Suggested Rates:
Co-learner/Student: $20
Recent Graduate/Emerging: $40
Mid-Career/Established: $60
Writing Advocate: $80 (pay for your consult and support a low-cost consult!)
Still not sure how much to pay?
The average payment is $37.59.
Writing Center Facilitators
Sara Clugage
Sara Clugage’s (she/her) art practice focuses on economic and political issues in craft and food. She is Editor-in-Chief of Dilettante Army, an online magazine for visual culture and critical theory. Although she works with food now, she was once a weaver, and she has always been a writer. Recently, she has been a culinary resident at Ox-Bow School of Art and Artists’ Residency (2024-25), Director of Communications for the Textile Society of America (2021-24), and core faculty for the MA in Critical Craft Studies program at Warren Wilson College (2021-23). She is the author of many essays and one monograph: New Recipes: Cooking, Craft, and Performance, from the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts (where she also serves on the board). She is currently at work on a book about Jell-O, animacy, and abstraction.
Sara champions research and writing skills for craft artists and is honored to support GEEX’s efforts.
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Ana Matisse Donefer-Hickie
Ana Matisse Donefer-Hickie (they/she) has an MA from the Bard Graduate Center in the history of decorative arts, design, and material culture and a BA Honors in history of science and technology from the University of King’s College, Halifax. After 6 years working at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, they are now pursuing their PhD in Art History at Temple University’s Tyler School of Art and Architecture. Their research focus is on the intersection of decorative arts and science in northern and central Europe during the early modern period, with special interest in glass-making recipes and techniques.
Having grown up in the glass world, Ana Matisse is honored to join GEEX in the effort to change it.
Past Facilitators
Lydia Boss
Based in Seattle, Lydia Boss (she/her) is a Turkish-American artist whose work investigates themes of identity, time, and nature through a millennial lens. Surfaces and experiences are manipulated in her work through the use of glass, photography, and new media. Her work has been exhibited internationally and she has been a resident artist at The Museum of Glass and Pilchuck Glass School. Lydia currently works as a Program Co-Director at Artist Trust, a grant-making organization in WA State, where she oversees annual planning, implementation, and evaluation of all artist grants, resources, and professional development programs.
Lydia is interested in creating a judgment-free space for translating your visual artwork into language and writing.