BRIAN HITSELBERGER
Artist / Writer / Publisher
    



A book of essays on artist’s block.

Built around a series of conversations with artists on their own experiences with blocks and barriers in their individual studio practices.  

 For this project, I interviewed six artists on their individual creative practices, using a list of questions I had prepared that focused on issues of block and challenge.

These questions were starting points for our conversations, each of which happened over zoom, and which created talking points for our conversations.  

These conversations were recorded and transcribed for research purposes, and I made edited portions of these conversations available to the public through social media.



Our conversations formed the basis for a series of essays examining the nature of artist’s block.

My suspicion was that examining this phenomenon from an array of different lenses would provide clarity, or guidance, for this phenomenon.

My writing process also wove together other voices pulled from my reading, to further enlarge the “community” of artist’s block.

























Many thanks to the contributors for their invaluable participation in this project: Eli Craven, Rowland Ricketts, Jacinda Russell, Rachel Leah Cohn, Toby Kaufmann-Buhler, Caleb Weintraub, and Marianne Boruch.

Funded by a grant from the Indiana Arts Commission.  

68 pages , 8.5” x 6.5”, Staple-bound
Edition of 150
2023  

More information on this project can be found here. An excerpt from this project focusing on Jacinda Russell’s work can be read here.  
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