Artist Resources
Ways to show your work, teach, and take classes at LAC, plus the guides and tools we hand to artists most often.
Open Tuesday through Saturday.
Who to write to- Classes, teaching, and the clay studio
- education@landerartcenter.com
- Shows on the schedule now or coming
- exhibition@landerartcenter.com
- Show proposals and everything else
- director@landerartcenter.com
Show your work at LAC
Bring us an idea for a solo, group, or themed exhibition. The proposal form and the steps are on one page.
Open › The Members ShowOur annual open show for LAC members. New work from artists across the community, hung side by side.
Open › Exhibition scheduleSee what is on the walls now and what is coming, so you can plan a proposal or an entry around it.
Open ›Teach and make at LAC
Pitch a class or a workshop. We hire local teaching artists across every medium we can fit in the building.
Open › The clay studioWheels, hand-building space, kilns, and shelf rental for artists working in clay.
Open › Self-selected pricingOur classes use self-selected pricing. The listed tuition is the standard rate, and if a lower price helps you take part, enter SUPPORTED at checkout for the reduced rate.
See classes ›Writing about your work
We read a lot of artist statements here. The ones that work have less in common with an essay than with a good wall label: short, concrete, and written for someone standing in front of the piece.
Write for the visitor, not the panel. Your reader is three feet from the work with a coffee in one hand. You get a few seconds before they lean in or move on.
Say what it is and how you made it. Name your materials plainly. Four honest words about process, like “slab-built stoneware, wood-fired,” will do more work than a paragraph of theory.
Keep it around 150 to 200 words. Long statements get skimmed. Aim for something a visitor can finish before their attention goes back to the art, which is where you want it anyway.
Cut the art jargon. If a sentence would not survive being read out loud to a friend who does not make art, rewrite it. Then read the whole thing out loud before you send it. You will hear problems you cannot see.
Keep it current. The statement should describe the work in this show, not the work you were making five years ago. Revise it when your work moves.
Make it easy to print. Send plain text, and spell your name the way you want to see it on the wall. What you send us is what gets set in type.
Tools, funding, and open calls
A longer walkthrough of the same ground, with more examples of what to avoid.
magazine.artconnect.com Read › Statement guides and further readingA librarian’s reading list from the Cleveland Institute of Art, for when one article is not enough.
library.cia.edu Read › Free calculators for artistsFour tools LAC built and gave away: kiln firing cost, gallery commission, art market profitability, and workshop material cost. No accounts, no tracking.
classpricingcalculator.com Open › Wyoming Arts CouncilThe state arts agency. Grants and fellowships for individual artists, including professional development and career advancement.
wyoarts.state.wy.us Open › CaFE open callsWhere many juried shows, public art projects, and residencies post their calls. Free to browse and build a portfolio; individual calls set their own fees.
callforentry.org Open ›Something you need that is not here?
Email director@landerartcenter.com and tell us what would help. See also Past Exhibitions and the full class list.
Propose a show