Individual critical reading sessions for manuscripts or works in progress (narrative and essay only).

Critical Reading is the right tutoring option for you if you need feedback on a specific text.

The cost is €350 (up to 100 pages).

 

TUTORS:

SOPHIE BLAIS
Languages: English, French, Spanish, Catalan

Sophie, is a cultural manager and director at Can Serrat, she studied visual arts at the University of Strasbourg and photography at the ICART-Photo school in Paris. She completed Master’s degrees in cinematographic and photographic studies, and management + cultural mediation at the Louis Lumière University of Lyon. From 2010 to 2015, she worked concurrently as a photographer for a regional newspaper and as a mediator in the field of contemporary art, literature, and publishing. She worked for he Nicephore Niepce Museum , LUX Art Center, Les Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie in Arles, and Le Creux de l’Enfer.

Since 2015, she has been working at Can Serrat, focusing on obtaining public funding for the residency and resident artists/writers. Sophie also established collaborations with various cultural and educational programs nationally and internationally, aiming to enhance the creative mentoring process for resident artists and writers. Notable collaborations include Artists at Risk, Artist Protection Fund, the Ministry of Culture of Tapei, and EESI Poitiers-Angoulême.

Since 2020, with the creation of the REMOTA program in collaboration with guion_bajo, Sophie has shown interest in expanding community care and process mentoring for artists and writers. Additionally, as part of her research and personal interest in developing the CRUCERO program, she underwent a three-month professional coaching process in 2022 with a recent graduate from the HEC certification program.

Sophie dedicates a significant portion of her work time to engaging in conversations with artists and writers about their projects, processes, and careers in general. She is of an inquisitive nature and spends time observing and reflecting on her surroundings, approaching reality with a philosophical and empathetic perspective.

 

SARAH GOODCHILD ROBB
Languages: English

Sarah Goodchild Robb is the Coordinator of Programming at Can Serrat. She received her BA in Art History and French from Bard College at Simon’s Rock and completed an MFA in Studio Practice from The City College of New York, CUNY.

There, she was nominated for a Dedalus Foundation Master of Fine Arts Fellowship, and was a recipient of the Therese Ralston McCabe Connor Award Study Abroad Fellowship, which allowed her to pursue a residency at Picture Berlin in Germany. While completing her master’s degree, she undertook a research internship at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. Prior to her studies, she worked as an art administrator and educator at a non-profit organization in Portland, OR. In 2018 she co-founded MODS with visual artist Maria Kim (2018-2023), an international virtual support initiative for working artists.

Special projects and interests at the residency include managing Narrativa Collectiva, a co-creation-themed residency, Other Tongue, an experimental translation workshop, and editing and writing for the biennial catalogue. In 2021, she completed a course in Art Criticism and Writing with Node Curatorial Studies Online to help hone her own writing and creative skills. For the past several years, she has read thousands of applications by serving on all of the juries at Can Serrat for both the contemporary art and writing submission. Writing about one’s work is an important skill likened to an act of translation. Sarah enjoys helping people to edit their statements, project descriptions, grants, and applications into clear and accessible prose in a relaxed and collaborative way that starts with a conversation about where you are in your practice.

 

NATALIA ROMERO
Languages: Spanish

She has published the poetry books Maybe Death Lies (Pánico el pánico), The Luminous Beginning, and Love Carries the Weight of the Night (Caleta Olivia), as well as children’s books ABC, My First Kitchen (Periplo), Where Is What Is Not(Syncretic Press), and the essay The Other Side of Things: Poetry as Restoration of a Voice in the Work of Diana Bellessi(Blatt&Ríos).

She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Communication Sciences (UBA) and a Master’s degree in Creative Writing (UNTREF). She received the Creation and Project Completion Grant from the FNA to work on her first novel, The Precious Noise of a Heart, and the Can Serrat grant to participate in the artists’ residency in El Bruc (Barcelona) with the same project.

She participates as a teacher in the artist training program PAC (Gachi Prieto Gallery) and has been coordinating writing workshops since 2014.

 

PAOLA CABALLERO DAZA
Languages: Spanish

She is a cultural manager, writer, founder, and director of the foundation guion bajo, as well as a reader and coordinator of the Cruceros program (in Spanish). She studied literature (Uniandes, Col.), completed a master’s degree in Asian and African Studies (Colmex), and obtained a diploma in Expanded Writings: language, science, and art (Unam, Mex). She is currently pursuing a Master’s in Creative Writing (UBF, Barcelona). She has served as a pre-reader, reader, and jury member for various national and international grants, awards, and incentives. Her publications include “Voy y vengo” (El Peregrino Ediciones, 2015). Her novel “Camas gemelas” (Cajón de sastre, 2020) was a finalist for the National Novel Prize (MinCultura, Col, 2022), with translations underway into Arabic (Madarat for Research and Publishing) and Greek (World Books).