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
Fall 2024
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.
Book your Writing Center Consult!
Meet your Writing Facilitators!
Engagement Size
1:1 Consultations
Schedule
Sundays from September 15—December 15, 2024
1:00-5:00pm US-Eastern with Ana Matisse Donefer-Hickie
4:00-8:00pm US-Pacific with Lydia Boss
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.”
Lydia is offering help in: applying for an artist grant and other opportunities, listening, note-taking, project-planning, clarifying ideas, and writing: “I see writing as ultimately a tool to get artists where they want to be in their work and in their career.”
Both 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?
In Spring 2024, the average payment was $42.
Our goal is to offer at least 2 low-cost appointments each week through each season. Please pay what you can to support this goal.
About Ana Matisse and Lydia
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. They currently work as a research associate at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 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 the development of 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.
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.
