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Otis has been awarded a $130,000 grant from The Getty Foundation to create the Woman’s Building project as part of “Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980,” the largest collaborative initiative ever undertaken by museums in the region. The Woman’s Building was a major site of feminist art activity, especially during the 1970s, and has a significant role in art history. Research will begin in 2009, culminating in a scholarly exhibit and catalogue in 2012. It will include roundtable discussions among scholars and artists who took part; a timeline and a list of artists involved; and Otis educational programs connected to the exhibition. Leading the project are artists Sue Maberry and Meg Linton of [...]
says Edward Gunts in the Baltimore Sun (10/30/08). The planned Charles North renewal area includes the state-designated Station North arts-and-entertainment district. Planners see it as more than “a typical neighborhood revitalization struggle”; they envision the area the way it was 100 years ago – as a regional center. In addition to new housing, shopping and park areas and “Asia Town,” plans include a design district where architects, planners, artists and others could have offices, showrooms, galleries and meeting space; a center for design students working on urban projects, shared by MICA, Morgan State University and and U. of Maryland; and high-density housing, including a “live-work-study tower.” (Thanks, Cultural Policy [...]
The awards were presented by BCA, FORBES Magazine and Americans for the Arts on October 30, 2008, at a black-tie gala at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. This national list was initiated by BCA in 2005 to recognize ten companies that have exhibited exemplary recent support through grants, volunteer programs, matching gifts, local partnerships, sponsorships and board membership. The Ten for 2008 are: Anadarko Petroleum Corporation, Houston; Brown-Forman Corporation, Louisville; Emprise Bank, Wichita; First Tennessee, Memphis; H&R Block, Inc., Kansas City; Limited Brands, Inc., Columbus; Northwestern Mutual, Milwaukee; Sweetwater Sound, Inc., Fort Wayne; Wachovia, Charlotte; and Zions First National Bank, Salt Lake City. Read online about their contributions to the arts in their [...]
The show is an installation featuring portraits of 11 young San Francisco writers who developed their poetic voices in WritersCorps, a creative-writing program serving 15,000 urban youth. throughout the city since 1994. Visitors to the gallery can view short films, listen to audio recordings, respond to writing prompts and even exhibit their own writing. Multimedia artist Katharine Gin and sound artist Kjell Nordeson have been working with the poets for a year to create the portraits. The show runs November 7, 2008-January 24, 2009, with a reception November 13. You can watch a four-minute trailer of the films on the WritersCorps Web [...]
It’s part of a project by SAF that includes a publication and a multimedia Web site based on collected stories about the experiences of Latino immigrants. The exhibition shows in Durham, N.C., November 13, 2008–January 4, 2009, in the Krebs Gallery at Duke University’s Center for Documentary Studies, a partner on the project. Immigrants illuminate their reasons for coming to the U.S. and the obstacles they face once they arrive. In particular, the project focuses on farmworker families in the Carolinas and their dreams for the future, their traditions, their educational aspirations and their challenges as they try to pursue higher education. A November 13 panel discussion includes project participants who shared their stories and those who documented [...]
Tune in on the Web to listen to Cook talk to WUNC’s Frank Stasio on “The State of Things” about “Face Up: Telling Stories of Community Life,” a documentary/public art project that grew out of local conversations about neighborhood goals in Southwest Central Durham. The project blended an artist’s residency with collaborative documentary exploration and art making in community settings. Cook was a visiting artist at Duke University’s Center for Documentary Studies and he joined Stasio on September 12, 2008, to talk about the intersection between art and social [...]
Bill Ivey, former chair of the NEA and newly appointed head of the Obama transition team for arts and culture, will join AftA Government Affairs staff, national arts leaders and elected officials for the Webinar, beginning at 2 p.m. The online seminar will include a review of possible cultural-policy direction at the White House, the newly elected members of Congress and the changes in state leadership and ballot initiatives. The Webinar is free to AftA members; $125 for others. Also, on the AftA Action Fund site you can send a letter of congratulations to the new Obama administration and appeal to them to begin working on their campaign pledges in support of the arts and arts [...]
Blessed Unrest
by Paul Hawken
Paul Hawken, one of the wisest men on earth in my opinion, has published a new book that I’ve just finished reading. Titled Blessed Unrest, the book describes the convergence of the environmental and social justice movements, and “how the largest movement in the world came into being.”
Paul Hawken is an entrepreneur [...]
“We may, just possibly, also see a time of refreshing openness, enlightenment and creativity. The arts and the artists will not be seen as the enemy. Perhaps art will be explored in order to discover the greater truths. When FDR was ushered in with his landslide in 1932, what followed was Frank Capra and Preston Sturgis, Woody Guthrie and John Steinbeck, Dorothea Lange and Orson Welles. All week long I have been inundated with media asking me, ‘gee, Mike, what will you do now that Bush is gone?’ Are they kidding? What will it be like to work and create in an environment that nurtures and supports film and the arts, science and invention, and the freedom to be whatever you want to be? Watch a thousand flowers bloom! We’ve entered a new era, and if I could sum up our collective first thought of this new era, it is this: Anything Is [...]
Snoflake and Dagg and Stacey would like to invite you to a TRUNK SHOWhosted by Nathalie-Roze & Co.Date: Thursday November 10, 2008Time: 5:30-9:00 pmLocation: 1015 Queen St. E at Pape (map)Contact: 416-792-1699 | info@nathalie-roze.comThe [...]
IMPORTANT DATESSubmissions Accepted: Oct. 1 – Nov. 15, 2008Exhibition: Dec. 6 – Jan. 4, 2009Opening Reception & Awards: Dec. 6, 2008 @ 1 PMRules & Regulations: www.whitbystationgallery.comOnce a year Whitby’s art gallery has a special [...]
Cedar Ridge Creative Centre [...]
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS/DONATIONS:Precious Gems and Cedar Ridge Creative Centre invite artists to donate work for a fundraising silent art auction. We are requesting donations of fibre art, jewelry, stained glass, photography, paintings, drawings, mixed [...]
Dear Sellers!
Below you’ll find a handy index of all the useful How-Tos about Selling on Etsy. We’re calling it the Seller Handbook. We’ll be adding all new how-tos for sellers to this index.
You can also search the Storque tags for “Seller Handbook” for a chronological list of all our published how-tos related to Selling.
Your Shop 101: How-Tos for Getting Started on Etsy
Please also see the Setting Up Shop Help Guide, Selling Dos and Don’ts, Selling FAQs, Listing an Item Help Guide.
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Photography How-Tos
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Alchemy and Custom/Reserved Listing How-Tos
Shipping How-Tos
Advertising How-Tos
Please also see the Showcase Help Guide.
Business and Pricing How-Tos
Promoting & Marketing How-Tos
Craft Show & Events How-Tos
Social Networking, Blogging, Podcasting & Video-making How-Tos
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Legal Info for Artists
Tagging How-Tos
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Team Tips
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Comment below and let us know what other topics would be helpful for sellers! If you’d like to write a how-to for the Seller Handbook, pitch to the Storque editors. [...]
The Center will research and investigate the dynamics of race and culture and their relationship to visual-art traditions and practice, aiming to “prepare students for leadership roles in the regional, national and international art world.” The conference was the outcome of a meeting inspired and hosted by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African-American Research at Harvard University, to “pay critical attention to the role of the art maker in society and institutions committed to the education, exhibition, research and preservation of cultural heritage and aesthetic agency in the first decade of the twenty-first [...]
Referencing poet Jayne Cortez’s 1996 book of the same title, the project (through November 22, 2008) investigates and celebrates the social and individual transformative potential of writing, arts education and creative community. It features 18 painted portraits of Bay Area spoken-word poets, ages 15-20, installed citywide, including audio recordings of their poems. (Listen: 415-200-4587 x 10-27.) There’s also an interactive exhibition at Intersection with a collaborative drawing wall, recording and reading stations and a resource guide to local art classes for youth. Events include free workshops and civic-engagement opportunities for young people and “Collaborative Aesthetics,” a dialogue on the role of creative collaborative processes in building community, facilitated by Brett Cook (November [...]
There’s a lot of buzz lately about Twitter.com as an interactive marketing tool. (In fact, you can find Etsy at http://www.twitter.com/etsy!) I’ve been giving a good deal of thought to how Etsy Teams can use Twitter.com to their advantage to effectively engage their audience and bring new buyers to members’ Etsy shops. Below are some simple steps on how you might develop Twitter as a useful tool for your Team.
What is Twitter.com? Twitter describes itself as “a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate
and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to
one simple question: “What are you doing?“ After creating an account, people can choose to follow other people’s Twitter posts, viewing posts online or via a mobile phone. Twitter is about quick glimpses into you or your brand, as you have 140 characters to type or include interesting links for your Twitter followers to read and respond to.
- To get started, discuss with your Team what your goals might be for a Team Twitter account. Goals can range from, but are not limited to, sharing knowledge (posting links to useful tutorials or tips online), to giving the Team a personality (having a friendly, anecdotal voice in posts), or driving traffic to content around the web from your Team. Most likely, successful Team Twitter accounts will aim at all three of these goals.
- Decide as a group who will be responsible for posting content – Many brands and businesses find it’s most interesting when several people post, but some feel there’s value to a consistent voice. Consider your goals as well as the natural talents and time availability of members when deciding who should have access to posting.
- Register a username for your Team.
- Tweet away! Don’t forget to interact with other members by responding to posts – engaging the people who are following you is a great way to really make the most of this medium. By starting a post with @(username), it’s easy for a user to find replies intended for them, even if they’re not currently following you.
- Find more people through Twitter – You can try the search tool to search for terms related to your Team, and then you can network with people talking about similar topics to what you’re posting about. If you have a little time to do some tweaking, you can try one of many third party tools for finding other members and organizing Twitter feeds, such as Tweetdeck.
- Stand out from the crowd – If you’re looking to spruce up your Team’s Twitter account page, you might consider adding photos of some recently listed products as a background, under Design in your Account Settings.
- Enjoy! Don’t think of Twitter as a chore, a task or a major thing to do on a giant to-do list. Rather, when you find something interesting, or perhaps whenever you find something worthy of bookmarking, simply post it to your Twitter account. When you have spare moment after checking email or starting a new task online, simply take a minute to check your Twitterstream to reply back to your network! Incorporating Twitter into your daily habits is the best way to have success with this tool.
- Do remember how useful Twitter can be for communicating in real time – Twitter is a great way to promote events, like Team Virtual Labs trunk shows or local events!
For more information, you can check RedPanda‘s informative post in the Etsy forums, this interview that WineNutNYC did with some Etsy sellers on successfully using Twitter to market, or this great article on 50 Ideas on Using Twitter for Business.
Find us at http://www.twitter.com/etsy and post in the comments with the link to your Twitter feed!
Team Tips are a weekly series of tips and ideas from the Etsy Teams. You can find more Resources at team.etsy.com. Etsy Teams
are growing quickly, and we love that so many sellers want to join in
to promote their shops, Teams and Etsy. For more information on Etsy
Teams, check out the Teams pages and this page of Frequently Asked Questions. Don’t forget to read our interview with this week’s Featured Etsy Team. Keep up the great work, Etsy Teams!
The series on aging, spirituality and creativity, November 23-25, 2008, is co-sponsored by the Cathedral and The Gerontological Society of America. It will include “Creative Aging: The Next Frontier,” a Sunday Forum with Gene Cohen, director of the Center on Aging, Health & Humanities at George Washington University; “Aging, Spirituality and the Visual Arts: A Pilgrimage at the Washington Cathedral,” a tour of the cathedral with artisans who helped create it; a walk through the labyrinth in the nave of the Cathedral; and “Aging, Spirituality and Creativity,” a Cathedral Crossroads Program with Rev. Margee Adams Iddings. [...]
Writer Judith Tannenbaum, in her blog, says of the book: “…an excellent resource for those wanting to know more about prison arts and for practitioners hungry for connection to colleagues. The book’s author, Krista Brune, received a fellowship that allowed her to research dozens of programs across the United States, and this book documents her research. There are essays by people in prison, teaching artists, program administrators, and college students. There’s an advice section from three of us old-timers (Buzz Alexander of Prison Creative Arts Project, Grady Hillman and me), and an extensive program directory and resource list.” The book is only available from [...]
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