Keeping Track of A Creative Life

This session with Catherine Eaton Skinner and Suzanna Westhagen will offer insight, practical ideas, and a way forward to organize your art practice.

A lifetime of artwork holds more than finished pieces—it carries the evolution of ideas, materials, questions, and ways of seeing.

Over time, that work accumulates—drawings, paintings, sculptures, notebooks, photographs, and records that together tell the story of a creative life. Knowing how to organize and care for that body of work can feel both essential and, at times, overwhelming.

For our May Community Call, we’re opening a conversation around archiving—what it means, how to begin, and how to build systems that support both the work and the life around it.

With more than sixty years of creative practice, Catherine Eaton Skinner’s work spans multiple disciplines and includes thousands of drawings, paintings, prints, and sculptures. Alongside this, she has kept detailed notebooks that chronicle her ideas, influences, and evolving…