Crit Lab:Advanced Group Critiques
8 Week Class | Registration opens 2026-02-10 12:00 PM
This advanced workshop is geared towards emerging to mid-career artists who want to expand their art practice by developing confidence in their own unique artistic voice and increasing the fluidity of their language skills to talk about their own work and those of their peers. This class provides high-level group discussion and constructive assessment of students’ work-in-progress. Each weekly session will include two hour-long critiques of individual work and one lecture or discussion of a reading. There will be some guest visiting faculty by local artists/curators to provide additional feedback during weekly sessions.
Base Tuition: $406 + Material fee: $15 = Total: $421
___________________________________________________________________________________
- What You Will Learn:
- - Develop the ability to verbally and textually articulate the basic themes and ideas relating to personal art practice
- Strengthen critical skills in making, evaluating and discussing art
- Explore the role of audience, context and criticism
- Investigate the ways artists construct, use and maintain support communities
Jessica Thalmann
Jessica is an artist and educator currently based in Toronto and New York City. She received an MFA in Advanced Photographic Studies from ICP-Bard College and a BFA in Visual Arts from York University. Thalmann has taught at the International Centre for Photography, Akin Collective, MacLaren Art Centre, Toronto School of Art, Gallery 44 and City College of New York. She has been an artist in residence at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Alberta, Canada, and at the Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles, California, USA. She is a recipient of grants from the Toronto Arts Council, the Ontario Arts Council and the Canada Council. Her work has been shown in group exhibitions at Aperture Foundation, International Centre for Photography, Camera Club of New York Baxter St, and Humble Arts Foundation (New York), VIVO Media Arts Centre (Vancouver), Museum of Contemporary Art, Harbourfront Centre, Art Gallery of Mississauga, Varley Art Gallery of Markham, Angell Gallery, Gallery TPW, Art Spin, and Gales Gallery at York University (Toronto).