March 30th, 2010
Do you absolutely hate, detest and despise writing artist statements, submission letters or proposals? I get anxious and break out into a cold sweat (well not really but I still don’t like it). Do you find yourself saying “I have a visual language” or want very much to go with “a picture is worth a 1000 words”. Unfortunately that is not going to advance your art career or get the work accepted by galleries or the public. In order to reach people artists are put into the position where they have to explain their art and if feels like you have to explain yourself.
To help in this daunting task I have compiled some links to people and sites that actually have some useful tips.
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October 2nd, 2009
The first thing you have to do in preparation to add content to your site is to optimize your images. Optimizing is a term used to indicate a change to a photo or a graphic, to reduce it in both visual size and file size, for use in other programs. For use in an Artbiz website I ask clients to resize to no larger than 800px in any one direction and no larger than 100 to 120 kbs.
Photoshop or Photoshop Elements
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January 18th, 2009
On this page I am going to list sites that have Artist Calls and Opportunities for Submissions as I find and review them.
So the first one is from Visual Arts Alberta (VAAA)
VAAA has a great blog site where they list all the calls and opportunities for artists; click here to go there or better yet join the VAAA and they will email you the calls and opportunities and you will also enjoy other benefits of membership and be supporting the arts in Alberta.
We all know about Artists in Canada, where you can create a listing for your self and you work but did you know that they also have a resources section that lists artist calls? Well now you know and click here to go there.
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