Ask Me Anything: Strategies for a Successful Studio Visit
Date: March 27, 2025
Time: 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm CST
Location: Zoom Meeting
Price: Free
Category: Workshop
This program will be held on Zoom. It will not be recorded, but Zoom automated captions will be available.
“Ask Me Anything” events are panel discussions on a variety of topics with Springboard’s Artist Career Consultants (ACCs) or staff and guest artists/presenters. These events are held virtually, on Zoom.
Ask Me Anything: Strategies for a Successful Studio Visit
Date/Time: Thursday, March 27, 2025, 6:00 – 7:30 pm Central Time
Whether virtual or in-person, a studio visit is a key opportunity to share your work with potential local and national collaborators. It’s a chance to discuss your creative process and receive valuable feedback from other artists and members of the arts community. Join us for a conversation with visual artist and educator Pao Houa Her and Taylor Jasper, Assistant Curator, Visual Arts at Walker Art Center, as they share insights on what makes an impactful studio visit, both in-person and online. The conversation will be moderated by Naomi RaMona Schliesman, Artist Career Consultant and Instructor at Springboard for the Arts.
Pao Houa Her (she/her) is a Hmong American artist whose practice engages primarily with legacies and potentials of landscape, portraiture, and documentary photographic traditions and aesthetics, creating works that examine identity, longing, and belonging in Hmong diasporic communities. Among Her’s solo exhibitions include Paj quam ntuj / Flowers of the Sky at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis (2022–2023), Emplotment at Or Gallery in Vancouver, Canada (2020), and My grandfather turned into a tiger at Midway Contemporary Art in Minneapolis (2018). Recently exhibited in the Whitney Biennial (2022), her work has been included in group exhibitions at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington DC; the Milwaukee Art Museum; MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum in Chiang Mai; the Minneapolis Institute of Arts; among many others. A prizewinner in the 2022 Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition (2022), Her was the recipient of the McKnight Visual Artists Fellowship (2022 and 2016), and the Jerome Fellowship for Emerging Artists (2019). Notable public collections include the Singapore Art Museum and the Walker Art Center. Her is an assistant professor in Photography and Moving Images at the University Minnesota. She holds an MFA in Photography from the Yale University School of Art (2012) and a BFA in Photography from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design (2009). Born in Laos in 1982, Her was raised in Minnesota and is based in Blaine. www.paohher.com
Taylor Jasper (she/her) is Assistant Curator, Visual Arts at the Walker Art Center. She joined in January 2023 from The Momentary, affiliated with Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, AR, where she was Curatorial Associate, Visual and Performing Arts. Prior to that, she was a Curatorial Research Assistant at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, contributing to the exhibition and catalogue for The Dirty South. Jasper‘s curatorial approach emphasizes care, collaboration, and community-building. A Richmond, VA native, she holds a BA in Black Studies and Art History from The College of William & Mary. (Taylor Jasper on Instagram)
Naomi RaMona Schliesman (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist with an MFA. Schliesman has received multiple Fellowships, grants, awards and has attended residency programs nationally and internationally. She has traveled abroad to study art and art movements. Her practice consists of studio art, education, collaborations with artists, organizations and communities in creative placemaking nationwide as a freelance artist, and as an active Arts Advocate in her community. She serves on multiple boards and committees. https://www.instagram.com/naomi.schliesman/