Artists Anonymous – Crit Chat

Artists Anonymous are hosting Crit Chat in Indianapolis on Thursday, November 5, from 7 PM to 9 PM. It's a critique session for artists looking for feedback on their work, so the whole evening is built around showing what you've been working on and hearing what other people think of it.

If you've been spending a lot of time in your studio and have reached that point where you've looked at a piece so long you can't tell if it's actually working or if you've just gone blind to the flaws, this is exactly the kind of thing that helps. You bring in your work, put it up for the group to see, and get a room full of other artists to weigh in. It's a straightforward exchange: you get a fresh set of eyes on your project, and in return, you spend the rest of the night looking at other people's work and offering your own thoughts. If you're used to working in isolation, it's a good way to get out of your own head and see how your work lands with a real audience.

Critique can be a bit daunting if you aren't used to it, but that's part of the point. The goal is to walk away with something concrete to work with—a few specific things to tweak, a new way to think about a problem you've been stuck on, or just the confirmation that you're on the right track. It's less about getting a grade and more about the conversation that happens when a group of people actually looks at a piece of art together.

Artists Anonymous runs the session, and it's open to artists across the board, so it doesn't matter what your medium is or where you're at in your practice. It runs from 7 PM to 9 PM on Thursday, November 5, in Indianapolis.