RESOURCE: UP YOUR GAME
eCourse | Workbook
Welcome to the Engage Art Choose Your Own “Art-venture” eCourse. There are parts of this eCourse that are good for artists in all genres and at all experience levels. So do the parts that will help you—and just skip the parts that won’t.
Cover a Wide Variety of Topics
• Enhance “art thinking”
• Understand better and enjoy a variety of art forms
• Create art informed by a prompt
• Develop and sharpen your art skills in an efficient way
• Collaborate productively with other creatives
• Communicate better about your art
• Know exactly what you need to prepare for the Engage Art
• Contest submission process
Choose the Module(s) you want, enter your name and email address at the prompt, and we will send the PDF to your inbox, free of charge.
Module 1: On Your Mark
Welcome to our eCourse!
Learn about:
• the Engage Art Contest and where to find out more information about it.
• the relationship between a topic (subject), the theme (what you have to say about the subject), and the plot (the “story” you use to explain what you have to say about the subject).
Module 1: On your Mark
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Module 2: Topic to Theme to Plot
Spend some time reverse engineering to create more powerful art.
Learn about:
• the topic for the Engage Art Contest (Spiritual Battle as described in Scripture, especially Ephesians 6:10-20).
• how to develop your theme and the narrative that will inform your submission.
Module 2: Topic to Theme to Plot
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Module 3: Understanding Art
Want to understand various types of art better and appreciate it more? You’re in the right place.
Learn to:
• up the level of your “art thinking.”
• understand and evaluate art.
Module 3: Understanding Art
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Module 4: Skills, Supports & Surprises
Whether you’re a novice, emerging, mid-career or established artist, there are always places to grow. Every time you work in this module, it will be a different journey, because you will be in a different place as an artist.
Learn to:
• Build your art skills in the most efficient way possible.
• Identify your influences.
• Understand your own art better.
• Create a space to make art.
• Make experimentation part of your art practice.
Module 4: Skills, Supports & Surprises
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Module 5: Reflect & Write
Every artist needs to be able to communicate about their art in clear and concise ways. But that doesn’t mean it’s easy.
Learn to:
• Identify your audiences and write to them
• Ways to think and write about your art
• How to create compelling personal and team bios
Module 5: Reflect & Write
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Module 6: How to Submit to the Engage Art Contest
Everything you need to know about the submission process for Engage Art, including a tour around our new submission platform.
• Materials to Gather
• Top 10 Tips
• Submission Walk Through
Module 6: How to Submit to the Engage Art Contest
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Tips for Using our eCourse Effectively
- Skim a section before you start, so you can see where you’re heading.
- These pdf Modules are interactive, so you will probably be able to type your answers in to the worksheets and save the customized document to your computer. If that is not working for you, you might want to print out the workbook, or at least the fill-in-the-blank workbook pages.
- Take it at your own pace. Weeks, months, years. Revisit as desired.
- You can work on Modules 3 and 4 at ANY TIME. Really. ANY time. During this process … during your entire life … Rinse. Repeat. The same will go for Modules 7 to 9, when they are released.
- Seriously consider collaborating with others on your Engage Art entry. Find people who bring skills you need but don’t have. We have a whole section on it in Module 4.
- Have Fun! After all, this is your very own, amazing, choose-your-own art-venture!
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