In this workshop, participants will discuss what works well in an artist's statement and how to capture your artistic vision—and people's attention—with how you describe your work.

Born in Canada, Dalia Azim is an Egyptian-American writer whose work has appeared in American Short Fiction, Aperture, Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art, Glimmer Train (where she received their Short Story Award for New Writers), Other Voices, and The Washington Post, among other places. Her first novel, COUNTRY OF ORIGIN, will be published by A Strange Object/Deep Vellum in March 2022.

Dalia is the manager of special projects at the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin, Texas. She previously worked as a researcher at the Dedalus Foundation and as a curatorial assistant at the Museum of Modern Art, both in New York City. She graduated with a dual degree in art and literature from Stanford University and grew up in Colorado and Ontario, Canada.