ART | TUESDAY, APRIL 15 | 6–8 PM | FREE
ACN: A Miracle Space for Gifted Fools
Postcard from Japan by Katie Barron
The Artist Conference Network is bringing an experiential tour of the unique and powerful ACN coaching process to FUSION | The Cell on Tuesday, April 15, at 6 PM!
ACN is a unique, peer coaching process that accelerates breakthroughs in focus, momentum, and empowerment in making art. ACN is made up of artists working in every field: writers, painters, musicians, filmmakers, quilters, collage makers, mixed-media sculptors, textiles, poets, and more!
This 2-hour intro to the Artist Conference Network will engage and possibly surprise you! Participants will be invited to share their own experience of making art, whatever their media. (You will not be sharing or critiquing art.) Co-facilitators Kristen Anacker (feature film, TV, and commercial costume designer) and Laurie McCann (five-year ACN member and mixed media sculptor) will offer an overview of the history and purpose of ACN. Participants will then engage in a 20-minute "taste test" of the unique ACN peer coaching process, followed by questions, reflections, and "aha" moments. In closing, they will speak briefly about the proposed creation of a New Mexico chapter of the ACN and your level of interest in starting an ABQ chapter.
Attendance is free and all are welcome! We hope to see you there!
ABOUT THE ARTIST CONFERENCE NETWORK
Blue by Margo Iserson
The Artist Conference Network is a network of local communities of artists trained in the coaching structure. They coach each other weekly towards their goals and share their creative work at meetings every two to three weeks. The structure is equally effective for amateurs and professionals, and the communities welcome anyone working in any creative field of endeavor, even if you don’t call yourself an “artist”.
The journey begins at the annual Conference Weekend of a local or online group. This is when new members learn the A C N coaching practice and renewing members deepen their practice. At the Weekend, members create a vision for their creative work, set yearly and three-month goals and experience the breakthrough coaching process.
Then, the group is off and running for the next year! Goal partners coach each other weekly, and group members share their creative work every two to three weeks. Every three months, there is a Goal Completion Celebration which is open to family, friends and guests. Then, another three-month goal is set, and the creativity continues for a whole year until the next Conference Weekend.
Spirit Guardians by Laurie McCann