Soft Skills Summer School: Creating A Narrative About Your Work with Kamala Puligandla

Soft Skills Summer School

Creating An Empowering + Compelling Narrative About Your Work

With Kamala Puligandla

Sunday, July 23, 1-3PM 

on Zoom

Free

Doing your art practice or creative work is entirely different than explaining it to other people! In this workshop we’ll discuss different ways to put together the what, how, and whys of your work, and link them to the story you want to tell about who you are and the impact of what you create. 

In addition to reminding you of why your work is special, we'll generate language that you can work into artist statements, applications, bios, and other places where you need to explain what you do. We’ll talk through questions, do some exercises together, and construct a narrative, in your voice, that ties together your identity, experience, and creative work. 

Kamala Puligandla is a writer, editor, copywriter, and queer mentor, with a knack for giving words to the ineffable, and finding the elegant version of what people are trying to say. Especially for people of color and queer people, it’s often necessary to invent the language to talk about the themes and aims of our work, and carefully position it so we’re read the way we intend. I’ve spent years honing the language to describe myself and my writing for various audiences — I’m excited to share what I’ve learned, and our collective knowledge, to help you do the same.