Many artists struggle not with making work, but with explaining it. This workshop focuses on translating complex, intuitive, or embodied creative practices into clear, honest language that serves both the artist and the audience.

Participants will explore strategies for articulating their work across different contexts—artist statements, websites, teaching philosophies, grant applications—while maintaining consistency and integrity. AI may be introduced as an optional support for drafting and revision, with an emphasis on using it as a scaffold rather than a voice.

By the end of the session, participants will better understand how to move between making and explaining, and how to communicate their work in ways that feel accurate, confident, and sustainable.

Lise McCoy, EdD, is a painter, photographer, digital artist, professor, and art educator based in Jonesboro, Arkansas. Known for her eye for composition and luminous color, she creates works in acrylic, oil, watercolor, and photography that explore both the visible world and the life of the spirit.

Lise is currently pursuing a Bachelor of Fine Arts at Arkansas State University while serving as a faculty developer at the New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine at Arkansas State.

Influenced by architectural harmony, Asian art, the spiritual–expressive tradition of Marc Chagall, and the expressive color of Pierre Bonnard, her work invites reflection, contemplation, and connection.

Website: hhartusa.com

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