Writing Your CV and Biography

In this session hosted by Tori Arpad-Cotta, Miami-based artist and professor at Florida International University, and Monica Uszerowicz Miami-based artist and writer, participants will get insight on how to organize their CV based on where they are in their careers as well as learn how to draft a concise short form and long form biography.

About the Speakers
Tori Arpad-Cotta’s site-based practice ranges deep, into the rusted remnants of farms past, and far into the as yet unbuilt places accessible only by foot and kayak. She has worked as Artist-in-Residence in AIRIE, Everglades National Park, and Land Arts of the American West, a field-study program at University of New Mexico. Arpad-Cotta received a Florida State Cultural Council Artist’s Fellowship and NCECA Emerging Artist Award. Exhibitions include the Shumen Biennial, Bulgaria and others internationally since 1996. Her work is featured in Land Arts of the American West by Bill Gilbert & Chris Taylor, Confrontational Ceramics by Judith S. Schwartz, and Ceramics: Mastering the Craft by Richard Zakin. Arpad-Cotta teaches Ceramics in FIU’s Art + Art History Department and works the earth on a few acres in the Redland Agricultural District.

Monica Uszerowicz is a writer and photographer in Miami. Her writing has appeared in Artforum, Art in America, The Believer, BOMB, Cultured, Filmmaker Magazine, the Los Angeles Review of Books, the New York Review of Books, Pin-Up and elsewhere, and her photographs have been exhibited internationally.