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Meet Erin

Erin Jane Nelson's art practice is grounded in photography sourced from her personal archive of found and original images. She often works serially, with each project delving into new conceptual frameworks as far ranging as regional histories of the Southern barrier islands, formative personal relationships, spirituality as a process of mourning and healing, and science fiction narratives.

Our check in quiz will outline kinds of studio visits and topics of conversation that will help you focus the nature of your studio visit. As you understand our options, we suggest thinking about what you want to focus on and why. This will best prepare you for the conversation between you and your mentor. As long as you’re excited to talk about what you’re working on, you won’t have any trouble at all. We all experience some anxiousness before sharing something important to us. Our artist-educators know this and will do our best to help you find your comfort in sharing with us.

Unfortunately, you will be billed for your visit if you miss it. You are able to cancel your visit within 24 hours, but if you cancel after that or simply miss your appointment, you will be billed for the artist’s time.

You may cancel your visit up to 24 hours in advance of your visit without incurring a charge.

Artists are selected after many conversations and meetings to know how they work, how they critique and how they understand the ethic of a studio visit. They are always working artists that have substantial professional experience.

Yes, you will be able to fill out a short form to tell us how your visit was and what you thought of your artist-educator.

NewCrits is a one-time payment service. You are able to buy bundled studio visits, but we do not offer subscriptions yet.

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NewCrits provides one-on-one studio visits, portfolio reviews, and mentorship with some of the world's most visionary artists.

Your portfolio can be the best window into your practice for someone new, and it is always an important part of applying for grants, funding, residencies, or school. NewCrits educators have years of experience in how to best present your work for each of these scenarios and will give you one-on-one feedback to make sure that you’re in the best possible position to achieve your goals.

A professional artist will review your portfolio and provide feedback for submission to art school applications, grants, and funding proposals.

Portfolio Review

Artists often feel like they don't have the resources for understanding the day-to-day management and growth of being a professional artist. NewCrits provides one-on-one virtual meetings with art professionals who help develop actionable appraoches for artists to improve their practice over time, including:

Top-level managing your ecosystem as an artist

Confirming what you want out of your career as an artist

Our coaches identify your most pressing hang ups and stumbling blocks and offer you solutions to fit your needs and vision

Professional Mentorship

Our artist-educators are here to guide you towards the heart of your practice and help you with a plan to push yourself deeper into your work and the principles of your own making. We divide our visits into two possible arenas: Searching/Researching and Presenting. See which is a better fit for you and book:

Thinking through your conceptual frameworks

Suggesting artists, movements, histories, or ideas that are pertinent

Thinking through your media and possible new media

Thinking about your artistic voice in the making

Finished or nearly finished works you wish to push further

Pulling out lessons you can learn from the work

Interrogating your motivations for this work or body of works

Thorough read and critique on finished works	- Thinking about how your artistic voice through finished work


A professional artist will meet with you to review your in progress or completed work to provide focused, constructive feedback.

Virtual studio visits
for artists, by artists

Virtual studio visits for artists, by artists

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Erin Jane Nelson

Virtual studio visitsfor artists, by artists

Virtual studio visits for artists, by artists

Services

Erin Jane Nelson

Virtual studio visits
for artists, by artists