Artist-Centered Critique using the Critical Response Process
In this course, participants help one another achieve their artistic goals by requesting—and
providing—useful and sensitive feedback on creative work. (While this process can be used for all varieties of creative work, the instructor’s area of expertise is the visual arts.) This collaborative back-and-forth is guided by a method called Liz Lerner’s Critical Response Process, which provides a safe, considerate environment in which creative people can ask for specific input and receive the constructive opinions they need to move their work forward. After a workshop outlining this communication process, participants will take turns being presenters of their own works and responders to requests for opinions regarding the work of fellow participants.
