Ask Me Anything: Working with a Studio Assistant
Date: April 24, 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: Working with a Studio Assistant
Date/Time: Thursday, April 24, 2025, 6:00 – 7:30 PM Central Time
As your creative practice grows, you may find yourself needing additional production and operational support. Working with a studio assistant could be the next step. A studio assistant can support a variety of artists, including visual artists, makers, creative businesses and performing artists.
Join us for a conversation with multidisciplinary artist Dyani White Hawk (Sičáŋǧu Lakota) and studio manager Sara Tonko as they share the impact and considerations of working with a studio assistant. They will discuss the support assistants need to thrive in their roles and how to begin the process of adding someone to your team. The conversation will be moderated by Naomi RaMona Schliesman, Artist Career Consultant and Instructor at Springboard for the Arts.
Dyani White Hawk (Sičáŋǧu Lakota) – (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Minneapolis. White Hawk was featured in the 2022 Whitney Biennial and the recent solo exhibition Speaking to Relatives at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver and Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art. She has received awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, Creative Capital, Anonymous Was a Woman, Joan Mitchell Foundation and McKnight Foundation. Her work can be found within collections such as the Guggenheim, Brooklyn Museum, Hirshhorn Museum, Minneapolis Institute of Art, MoMA, NY, Walker Art Center, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. www.dyaniwhitehawk.com
Sara Tonko (she/her) lives and works in Minneapolis, MN. She has been studio manager for Dyani White Hawk since 2022. Prior to that, she was the gallery director at Highpoint Center for Printmaking in Minneapolis.
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/