BOSSCRITT is a critique COMMUNITY for emerging artists

We have no formal membership & there is no cost to be involved. BOSSCRITT IS AN INCLUSIVE community of artists who get together to talk about art, & the joys & challenges of building a career in the arts.

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What is bosscritt?

BOSSCRITT launched in 2019 and was founded by Courtney Stock as an in-person monthly critique group—we now meet on Zoom with in-person gathering options. In 2021, Diana Jean Puglisi and Janet Loren Hill joined on as Co-Directors along with Emeritus Co-Director Demetri Espinosa. BOSSCRITT received a 2021 Collective Futures Fund Grant from Tufts University Art Galleries as part of the Regional Regranting Program of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts to expand their ideas around dismantling the harmful habits and dated structures of critique.

We recently launched a seasonal Cohort Model and are pumped to share it with you. Check out our instagram for the texture of it… and maybe you’ll join the next one.

How much does BOSSCRITT cost? ITS FREE! There is no formal membership or fee to be involved. The Co-Directors volunteer and devote their time to organizing the group and uplifting the community of artists committed to BOSSCRITT. We get together to offer crit, talk about art, and the joys and challenges of building a career in the arts.

Join our mailing list to hear MORE about upcoming CRITTS, daily practice projects and exhibition opportunities. We hope you join us in conversation!

DIRECTORS

Courtney Stock is an artist, only child, Pisces sun, Gemini moon, Virgo rising. Her Hyde Park studio is her sacred place of play. Her material-focused and improvisational art practice is driven by the question: “What happens if I do this?” She loves making people laugh, talking about art, her high-maintenance rescue dog, cooking, swimming in the ocean, mezcal, and learning about pretty much anything. Payne’s grey, graphite, and neon. She recently got a haircut.

Diana Jean Puglisi is an artist and museum educator currently creating in her basement studio in Rutherford, NJ. She loves plants, prefers a cheesecake over a steak, her favorite food is popcorn, she watches too much true crime, believes in magic, and spends a good amount of time buying and collecting weird obsolete objects off of eBay. Her work dissects known forms associated with women’s work and/or sewing, such as thimbles, sewing pins, lint rollers, pincushions and clothing, to try to understand it thoroughly and in a context different from its original. She creates playful scenarios and questions how the arrangement and interaction of materials and forms anthropomorphizes them. Underlying stories and histories of an object's strangeness, even objects that we consider common, pique her curiosity. 

Janet Loren Hill sees each day as a series of questions. Each of us walking around with our own highly suspect prisms trying to dislodge and understand the fractals that condense to form each moment. That sounds real fancy but she probably just played too much “Carmen Sandiago” as a kid. Hill grew up in small town Walla Walla, Washington where her beloved family pitbull-mix, Dusty, once pissed directly on her leg; a warmth she’ll never quite forget. Shortly after she moved to the East Coast for grad school. Here Hill is an artist and educator; two venues where she works to unsettle dominant narratives and encourage critical play.  

COLLABORATORS

Demetri Espinosa | Emeritus Co-Director
Juan Carlos Escobedo | Collective Futures Fund Collaborator
Alfred Dudley Jr. | Collective Futures Fund Collaborator