Members Workshop 1: How to Document Your Artwork
Members’ Workshops
Insightful workshop for AWD Artist Members by Karen M. Gutfreund. Attend the workshop by joining the membership. Join today!
Presenting Your Artwork Professionally
A Workshop Series for Artists with Lisa Knoop
As artists, we spend years developing our work, but many of us are left to figure out the professional side of presenting that work on our own. How do you photograph your artwork clearly? How do you keep track of calls for entry? How do you know what materials to submit, what matters most, or what might unintentionally weaken an application?
Artist, creative director, and creativity consultant Lisa Knoop will lead a practical workshop series designed to help artists navigate the often-overlooked process of documenting, organizing, and presenting their work professionally. Drawing from her experience supporting hundreds of artists through Marin Open Studios and other arts organizations, Knoop combines practical tools with an artist’s understanding of the realities, frustrations, and possibilities of creative practice.
Each workshop is designed to offer straightforward, actionable guidance that artists at many different levels can immediately apply to their own process.
Workshop 1: How to Document Your Artwork
Artwork Photography Basics for Artists
Wednesday, July 22, 6pm
90 min via Zoom
Artist, creative director, and longtime visual storyteller Lisa Knoop will guide artists through simple, practical ways to photograph their artwork using the tools they already have, including phone cameras.
This workshop will focus on the fundamentals of creating clearer, more professional artwork images using natural light, simple home setups, and built-in phone editing tools. Knoop will demonstrate practical techniques for improving lighting, camera angle, exposure, alignment, cropping, and perspective correction, along with common mistakes that can weaken artwork documentation.
Designed for artists at many different levels of experience, this session will emphasize straightforward, repeatable techniques that can immediately improve how artwork is photographed for portfolios, websites, social media, and calls for entry.
Artists are encouraged to bring 1–3 artwork images they would like to improve or better understand.
Workshop 2: Call for Entry Coaching
Preparing and Presenting Your Work with Clarity
August 19, 2026, 6–7:30pm
Workshop 3: Creativity Activation
Building Sustainable Creative Momentum
Date to be announced
Biography:
Lisa Knoop is a multidisciplinary artist, creative director, and creativity consultant working across painting, photography, mixed media, design, and visual storytelling. She majored in Psychology and Fine Art at UC Santa Cruz and has spent more than two decades working at the intersection of art, communication, and creative practice.
Through her work with Marin Open Studios and other arts organizations, she has supported hundreds of artists with artwork documentation, visual presentation, communications, and professional materials for exhibitions and calls for entry. She also provides design support for arts initiatives connected to Stanford University, including projects related to the Cantor Arts Center and the Anderson Collection.
Her workshops combine practical tools with an artist-to-artist understanding of the challenges and realities of sustaining a creative practice.