The phrase "practicing artist" is grammatically correct and commonly used in written English.
It refers to someone who is actively engaged in their chosen art form, whether it be visual arts, music, dance, etc. You can use it anytime you want to describe someone who is actively creating and honing their artistic skills. Example: The gallery is featuring the works of various practicing artists this month, showcasing a diverse range of mediums and styles.
A national curriculum requirement that all children under the age of 13 have at least 5 hours of practical contact time with a practicing artist per term, supported by a minimum one hour per week of practical performing arts education delivered by a specialist teacher.
In Oct., 1970 Irwin completely shut down his operations as a conventionally practicing artist.
While neither is a practicing artist, Ms. Lerner has taken courses in photography and applied arts, and Mr. Lerner, who chairs the board of the New York Academy of Art, has long pursued independent art history research.
A practicing artist or musician does a master's degree in a program whose teachers don't share her aesthetics.
Sarah has taught abroad in China and Mexico and is a practicing artist who has shown her work nationally and internationally.
Although he was already in his mid-sixties when he embarked on "Black Odyssey," Bearden hadn't been a practicing artist for all that long.
Still, coincidences like this suggest overproduction — an excess of practicing artists and a shortage of new ideas.
Part of the reason for this, she thinks, is that the collection was assembled by practicing artists rather than curators.
This has been run since 1996 by Sue and Peter Flowers who are practicing artists with a mission to bring international art to communities in the countryside.
Such debates and discoveries continue to attract vast crowds and to stimulate curators, academics, and practicing artists, suggesting that Degas's full stature has yet to be fully measured.
But he also descends from a rigorous tradition of practicing artists.
