Art Writer Registry

The Art Writer Registry is a public service connecting art writers and curators with potential clients seeking essays, website content, reviews, interviews, or didactic materials by professional emerging and mid-career critics and art historians. Art Writers may register their practices below by completing the form. Clients may browse the registry to find an Art Writer in their discipline. Writers are listed in alphabetical order by US State and City. Peripheral Vision Arts recommends contacting writers directly to discuss the assignment and to request writing samples. Peripheral Vision Arts advocates fair working conditions and well-paid assignments for Art Writers. Clients are encouraged to pay writers in advance for all services. 

UNITED STATES

TEXAS

SCOTT GLEESON is an emerging artist and art historian based in Dallas, TX, specializing in interdisciplinary research about public art, social practice, intermedia, and painting. Scott offers researched catalog essays and didactic texts for prices starting at $0.50 per word. Interviews requiring only preliminary research start at $0.30 per word. Scott holds an MA in Art History from Southern Methodist University. He has published research in the journal of art history at St Andrews University and presented research at the College Art Association Annual Conference. To discuss an assignment or request a writing sample, contact this writer at (505) 603 9404 or via email at studio@scottgleeson.us.

HEATHER BOWLING is an art historian, art writer, and curator based in Dallas, Texas. She specializes in essays, reviews, didactic texts, and interviews ranging from $0.20 - $1.00 per word, with minimum word count of 1000 words. She holds an M.A. in Art History from the University of Colorado and has held adjunct positions at Georgetown University, the Corcoran College of Art + Design, George Mason University, and the Ithaca College semester in DC program. In addition to teaching at the university level for many years, she has worked in museum education at the National Portrait Gallery and as a Roman field archaeologist. Heather is a Peripheral Vision contributing author. To discuss an assignment please contact this writer at heather.a.bowling@gmail.com. 

KELLY MONTANA is an art historian and critic based in Houston, TX, specializing in research and writing about Modern and Contemporary Art with a focus on Drawing, Architecture, and Ecology. Kelly offers essays billed at $0.20 per word with a minimum word count of 500 words. Kelly's essays have been featured in publications such as Glasstire, Arts + Culture Magazine, and OffCite Blog. To discuss an assignment or request a writing sample, contact this writer at (713) 498 1838 or via email at kelly.a.montana@gmail.com.

CALIFORNIA

GRACE LINDEN is a PhD candidate in Art History at the University of York and resides in San Francisco and London. Grace specializes in researching and writing about photography, installation art, collage, social practice, contemporary painting, emerging women artists, feminism, film, and public art. Grace holds a BA from NYU and an MA from the University of Oxford. She writes for such publications as Hyperallergic, Temporary Art Review, and Whitehot Magazine. Reviews start at $100, Interviews at $150, and Catalog Essays at $200+. To discuss an assignment or request a writing sample, contact this writer at (415) 572 1706 or via email at gracie.linden@gmail.com.

INDIANA

JESSICA CRESSEVEUR, Ph.D. is an art historian based in New Albany, Indiana, specializing in academic historical research on modern art and gender theory. Jessica received her Ph.D. from the University of Louisville and her M.A. from University College London. Jessica has presented and published her research at notable venues throughout the US and UK. She offers exhibition reviews, book reviews, catalog essays, interviews, didactic texts, and researched articles from $0.10 - $0.30 per word. To discuss an assignment or request a writing sample, contact this writer at (812) 207-1427 or via email at jessica.cresseveur@gmail.com.

KANSAS

LISA VOLPE, Ph.D. is an art historian and curator based in Wichita, Kansas. She is the Curator of the Wichita Art Museum and has held positions at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Cleveland Museum of Art. In her tenure as a curator, Lisa has published articles and exhibition-related texts, and offers didactic texts, exhibition reviews, interviews, and catalog essays between $0.50 - $1.00 per word (catalog essays start at $1.00 per word). To discuss an assignment or request a writing sample, contact this writer at (316) 268-4934 or via email at volpe@wichitaartmuseum.org.

NEW YORK

LINDSAY GANTER is an art historian and curator based in New York, specializing in research and writing about Renaissance art and architecture, as well as Postwar and Contemporary Art. Lindsay earned an MA in Art History from the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU in 2014 and earned her BA in Art History from the University of Richmond. She has authored and edited publications for such institutions as the Grey Art Gallery, NYU, and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. To discuss an assignment or request a writing sample, contact this writer at (201) 259-3162 or via email at lhg241@nyu.edu.

UNITED KINGDOM

SCOTTLAND

BARBARA BARREIRO is a PhD candidate in Art History, serving as a predoctoral researcher at the University of Aberdeen and the University of Oviedo. Barbara specializes in research on Surrealism, Postmodernity, Architecture, Aesthetics and Philosophy; and is a bilingual author writing in English and Spanish. Barbara offers academic researched essays for $1.00/word; art criticism for $0.50/word; and exhibition documents for $0.20/word. To discuss an assignment or request a writing sample, contact this writer at (749) 949-9490 or via email at barbara.b.leon@gmail.com. Follow the link to view this author's bibliography.