Artist Will Find a Way: A Studio Navigation Guide

This book is a pathway for discovering the answers to your deeply felt questions about your art. It is your creativity assistant, holding your hand through the deeper questions of why you are an artist.

Imagine if you had a creativity assistant in your studio, whenever you need them. Now you do. In this book, Fran Gardner offers a way to orient yourself in your work, to understand and reshape some of the challenges that can often get in the way of creativity. If you have questions about the purpose of your work, if you are frustrated by lack of focus, if your inner critic can get out of control, read this book. It offers ways to understand and move through some of the challenges artists face when they are alone in their studios. Pulled directly from the questions artists most often bring when working with her one-on-one, this book offers a re-framing and step-by-step guidance for navigating the deeply felt questions about your art.

Fran Gardner is Distinguished Professor Emerita of art and art history at the University of South Carolina Lancaster where she taught studio courses and art history for 32 years. Through these many years of teaching, she developed her methods for working with artists on their studio practice and creativity and gained the expertise for writing about art, leading retreats, teaching workshops, and judging and curating exhibitions. She works in mixed media collage with a heavy emphasis on fiber arts. She paints and draws with traditional materials, but also with thread, layering her work with rich texture, color and mark-making. frangardnerart.com