Asia Stewart
Application consultations | Artist Bio and CV assistance 
 

Asia Stewart is a Brooklyn-based performance artist, writing instructor, and application consultant. Asia is available on a freelance basis.

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Stewart is certainly no stranger to the demanding process of completing grant and art residency applications and now uses the strategies she has learned in her own career to help other artists improve their writing and editing skills. Stewart first formally began working as a writing instructor while studying at Harvard University and the University of Cambridge and now has over five years of tutoring experience. She finds it particularly rewarding to help artists and creatives develop ways to express themselves clearly through their biographies and artist statements. Her students have successfully received a number of fellowships and gained admission to MA programs at universities that include UC Berkeley, Columbia University, New York University, and the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College. 

 

Stewart offers virtual one-on-one classes to help artists refine their bios, artist statements, and application materials through her website Excel with Asia. She uses a sliding-scale payment system and encourages students to pay a rate that seems reasonable to them based on income and personal circumstances. The minimum rates for 30-minute, 45-minute, and 60-minute classes are $30USD, $40USD, and $50USD, respectively. For more information about booking classes through Excel with Asia, please visit the website or email Asia Stewart directly at excelwithasia@gmail.com. For those interested in following Stewart's artistic work, please visit her website www.asiastewart.com.

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In her artistic work, Asia attempts to transform the language specific to studies of race, gender, sexuality, and diaspora into materials that can be felt and worn on the body. As a National YoungArts Winner in Musical Theatre and a former National Arts Policy Roundtable Fellow with Americans for the Arts, Stewart uses her past experiences on stage to inject her work with a heightened sense of theatricality. Her pieces have been showcased in multiple NYC venues including the Mercury Store, Untitled Space, NARS Foundation, A.I.R. Gallery, and Kellen Gallery, and one work was recently acquired by North Carolina's Mint Museum.