Article by Edwin Omosh Omondi

After a long days’ work you need to relax more often than not in a tranquil, cool atmosphere. After a tiresome, busy day of gathering contact information about Kenyan painting artists, this is exactly what I needed.

I work for an online African art paintings gallery as their Project Manager. In this role I source artists and facilitate in the collection of paintings in Kenya. I work for Gathinja Yamokoski, website owner who lives near New York City, where the site operates from.

African Art is a new venture for me. This particular day’s work I had unraveled proved to be an excitement, despite the labor involved. Even the impetus and urge to wake up to the following day with the task of finding more artists was a challenge, but I looked forward to it and its results.

This evening I decided to wind down at a restaurant in Nairobi that informally gathers artists. All kinds of people in the field congregate there; theatre artists, visual artists, music artists and all their managers.

As I walked up the stairs, something that was a subject of my interest caught my attention. There before me, hanging on a wall, was a very large abstract painting of a woman who was moving in very slow rhythmic waves due to the slight breeze. I stood right in front of the painting and my imagination went wild! I wanted to see the person who did this, I even wanted to go their studio just to have the chance to see more! “This is a masterpiece! Who did this?” I thought.

I looked at the signature on the painting and there was the name “Chagwi.” I took note of the name and proceeded with climbing the completion of the stairs with a spark of energy diluting my tiredness. A few steps upwards, there was yet another painting! This time round I did not bother to look at it. Instead my eyes went straight to the signature to check to see if this too had been done by the so called Chagwi and yes! There it was: “Chagwi.” The talent, the precision with which the works were done, was imminent and definitely called for more investigation. Finding my way into the restaurant, I knew I had run into a “freebie” source of an artist, so I asked one of the waiters for the manager in order to ask them for Chagwi’s contacts right then and there.

The manager, upon learning what I was doing, gave me Chagwi’s contact and I was so happy. Who is this artist and would he be interested in showing me his paintings? This was the question that was in the back of my mind from the first time I saw his works.

A day later we met. I knew it was him only from the indication of a painting he had rolled up in his bulky hand. Chagwi towers at about 6 foot 3 inches and has the body of a bear. If his Mom gave him a hug, she would get smothered in his mass.

Personally, Chagwi is easy to talk to, and eager to make a deal for what is knows is good art. We talked for a good hour or so before making any deal. One watching us wouldn’t have known that this was our first meeting! His paintings show his compassion as he paints of the innocence and shamelessness of children living in rural areas of his homeland.

He speaks very good Swahili and not so good English. He sobers his language with the preference of a refreshing, warm Guiness beer.

And he has stories: the frustration of trying to express himself verbally as a child only to draw pictures in his room of what his emotions were. He had stories of travelling from place to place in Kenya. While traveling his head would be full of art from the people he saw on his way. Their picture in his mind prompted him to paint while wondering what his art would say of their real life character.

Chagwi is one to watch and arguably one of the best contemporary artists in the Kenyan circle.

We told Chagwi about our prospects for the online gallery. He was happy to be a part of it by selling us his paintings. So Chagwi joined 39 other talented African artists and became a part of our new project.

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Article by Janice M. Sears

The Kennedys, our ex-imperial dynasty, are going through a bad patch. First, the commencement of the new 112th Congress took place in January, 2011 without a Kennedy amongst its members House or Senate, to lend credibility to the national circus. Such a lapse had not occurred since 1947… and the Kennedys didn’t like this one little bit.

Then Victoria Reggie Kennedy uttered her umpteenth pronouncement on whether she would seek her deceased husband Ted’s Senate seat in 2112. This time she really meant it (so she said) . She wouldn’t be challenging naked pin up boy Senator Scott Brown (R-Massachusetts). Too bad. That would have been a gourmet food fight.

Next, Sargent Shriver, one of the royal brothers-in-law, checked out at 95 on January 18, 2011. He had always been a fringe character; nice, but a light weight. Still, every Court needs affable second-raters, and Sarge filled that bill all right. This was a loss, to be sure, but not much.

Meanwhile down the road a piece in Dorchester, Massachusetts at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library a much more important battle was taking place; this time it was Sister Ethel (Bobby Kennedy’s tough-as- nails widow) who was pulling the wires from backstage. She picked her last (9th) child Max, a trained lawyer, to play Cerberus and bite on cue every time anyone wanted to see a ton of never-before-seen documents, a true treasure trove — with its own curse.

These dealt with such subjects as…. how the Jack and Bobby White House planned to snuff Cuba’s Fidel Castro in Operation Mongoose… how to plan a Cuban invasion without getting caught… what really happened at the bumbling, bloody Bay of Pigs, and the “next one who blinks gets a holocaust” confrontation with Russia’s bear-hugging head of state, Nikita Khrushchev, known as the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1961.

These papers, it was widely predicted by historians and other reputable sources, held one smoking gun after another. The dynasts made it clear, very, very clear , these embarrassing documents (the private property of the Kennedy family) would see the light of day when hell freezes over, or some such long-delayed, Kennedy- controlled moment in time.

Add to this the caught-with-their-pants-down story of the Kennedys ham fisted efforts to control content about them on the History Channel, and you have One Big Headache, irritating lese majeste.

This article is about the last of these matters, a set of inconvenient facts which make it clear the Kennedys are different from you and me. Not only are they the stuff of legend and questions on “Jeopardy”; they get to have tantrums that work when something, anything doesn’t go their way. Kool. Let’s see how they do it.

“The Kennedys” mini-series was supposed to showcase great content… thereby raising the visibility and status of the History Channel.

At the History Channel things were not all well. Widely derided as the “World War II Channel” because every other program showed British Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s famous “V” for victory finger movements… and, of course, a million interminable hours about Field Marshal Rommel, the masterful organizer of the North Africa campaign. It was limited, dull, often excruciating… in need of what the Kennedys have to burn: glamor. It seemed a match made in heaven. And the History Channel plunked down some serious coin (over 30 million bucks) to bring this story to you and me.

Unfortunately, right from the start there was a serious mismatch between what the History Channel wanted for its considerable stake and what the Kennedys, the object of our affection, would allow. The History Channel wanted the soap opera: great pots of money illegally made, sex, illicit sex, jaw-dropping sex, sex in odd places, even presidential sex with an always-available cutie while discussing How To Build a Better World with his (supposedly oblivious) Secretary of State. Neat. Oh, and don’t forget sex with Marilyn Monroe… with one brother, both brothers. Whatever… it would sell like hot cakes.

Then there were the Kennedys… determined to get what every defunct dynasty wants: controlled facts; white-washed facts; never the whole-truth-and-nothing-but-the-truth facts. They wanted the laundry room version of the truth, sanitized, clean, not a speck of dirt. If it was dull, too bad. It needed to be majestic, larger-than-life, controlled.

As the project advanced and a release date was set for the 50th anniversary of JFK’s new presidency, January 20, 1961, members of the ex-dynasty got more and more nervous. Their ertwhile representative on the project, famed Kennedy speech writer and adviser Theodore Sorensen, made it clear just how lurid this series would be… and just how inimical to the family. Sorensen’s crisply stated opinion was taken very seriously by the Kennedys. They knew that Sorensen was the ultimate loyalist, a man who knew all and told nothing… and wouldn’t let anyone else tell much either, if he had anything to say about it.

Sorensen told about scripts he found flagrantly inaccurate. Hey, the History Channel knew with Voltaire that history was a pack of lies the living play on the dead. What facts matter… so long as the History Channel made money?

Then there were tales about the role of Kennedy-baiting, conservative Joel Surnow in the project. His media production qualities were impeccable (an Emmmy-award winnng creator and former executive producer of the Fox series “24″.) He didn’t much like the dynasty… and had no trouble saying so.

The dynasty should be worried, said Sorensen, and so did liberal Robert Greenwald, who slipped them all copies of the script… which well and truly set the cat amongst the pigeons. It wouldn’t do… it wouldn’t do at all.

And so the Kennnedys started to act… like Kennedys, summoning up their massive firepower to hugely alter or even kill the project. It was reported by the Boston Globe, the Kennedys’ hometown read, that Caroline Kennedy, Maria Shriver, and Eunice Kennedy Smith had all contacted network executives with their concerns. Meanwhile, Theodore Sorensen, who had so deprecated this project, labeling portions “vindictive” and “malicious” died in October, 2010, supremely loyal to the end.

The History Channel caved.

In response to this juggernaut, the History Channel pulled the 8-part mini series from the U.S. market, the only one the Kennedys cared about. It was finished… it was as lurid as desired by the network… it was exiled to Canada, which didn’t count.

At the last, even the Boston Globe, the newspaper of record for the Kennedys, couldn’t abide or approve what the dynasts did. In an editorial of January 17, 2011 it made clear its opposition to all the shenanigans, admonishing the Kennedys for going “too far”.

And what of the many Kennedy supporters worldwide? What did they do? What did they say?

The silence was awesome.

Lord Melbourne (1779-1848), Queen Victoria’s first prime minister knew why.

“That is no use at all,” he said of men who would support him when he was right.

” What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong.”

But no one, on these terms, stepped forward to aid and support the Kennedys in their determined, wrongful assault on free speech and their insistence on shaping and controlling the content and message. Their “friends” were nowhere to be found… and they are silent still.

Written by Dr. Jeffrey Lant

Private television channels have been launched into a race to put on the air HD channels.Antena 3 and Telecinco have delivered their particular battle to be first with minimal difference in the air put their conventional channels in HD.Now it has added La Sexta.But the quality is suboptimal.In part because they have a limited bandwidth (operating a multiple, with up to four normal channels) and are not willing to give up any of their offers to provide more spectrum for the HD (high definition channel requires the equivalent two conventional type).

Public schools have won the game.Are in a better position because they have greater capacity (RTVE, for example, operates two manifolds, eight channels in total).Because of technical limitations, private acknowledge that they have launched a “HD without hache.”The manufacturers claim that the current supply is of poor quality.”HD is being broadcast is not what” they say.This is compounded by the large percentage of TVs that are not ready for this technology: 6.6 million of the 30 million who make up the current park.

Movies, series, documentaries and, above all sports, are the engines of the HD.”It’s where the most noticeable improvement in image quality. In cartoons are not just perceived,” says the manager of a private channel.The HD is twice the standard resolution and sharpness of the image is comparable to a DVD.

Antena 3 and Telecinco broadcast in HD thanks to improved spectrum formula.”Before the summer, we Abertis announced a new system for releasing spectrum to optimize bandwidth for a channel in HD” point sources for these chains.The network operator explained how the cartoon channels, which take up little space and can make room for sports, because moving images require much more capacity.

The state-wide private television stations have 20 megs.The technology allows you to compress the signals using statistical multiplexing, which combines multiple channels so that one occupies the space of another.So you can create a HD channel with six or seven megabits per second, a proportion close to the limit of what can be considered HD.It is practically half the space used by major satellite operators and less of what public use.RTVE provides between 8 and 10 megabits per second.”The more bandwidth, the better the image. In TVE less work to give the audio spectrum, applying new technologies, and gain bandwidth for video,” said Pere Vila, director of planning and technological innovation of corporation.

Every time there are more HD content, especially sports.British TV Sky employs between 11 and 12 megs for a football game, compared to 7.5 in some regional.”Sky is a operator demanding. Given the current state of technology, with advanced decoders, a sports channel must not drop below 11 or 12 megs. The Spanish private channels will never be up to 12 megs using Digital + channels “said Adolfo Remacha, technical director of Sogecable.

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There are some drama movies that deal with emotional themes. Dramatic themes in these films include subjects like alcoholism, drug addiction, racial prejudice, poverty, religious intolerance, crime and corruption. These type of movies stand in contrast to action films that show the fast-paced action and physical conflict with the help of superficial characters. Almost all films have dramatic element in them, but the drama films typically focus on the drama of the main issue.

Some well-known drama movies include the Godfather(19 72), Citizen Kane (1941) and Schindler’s List’ (1993). All these films have been able to create a deep impact on the mind of the viewers. They talk about an essential conflict that is highly required in such type of movies. This is the reason that these films are the most talked about among thousands of people even these days.

One most popular movie that has captured the attention of the viewers world wide is the Godfather.

It is one of all-time favorite films for people. The third part of this film came in 1990, but it was not as impressive as the first two in 1972 and 1974. The third part focuses on an aging Michael buying a huge real estate company from the Vatican in 1979, but in doing so he faces trouble from the European criminals. After this, when Micheal falls ill, he gives his business to his nephew (Andy Garcia). Micheal is brought up in a tight-knit family.

Luck did not really favor him in his life. His first wife dies in a car accident. His second wife Kay ( Diane Keaton) divorces him and he never remarries again. He and Kay have two children. Micheal ends up his life by dying alone with only his puppy to mourn for him.

Another interesting drama movie is Citizen Kane. It is an innovative and breathtaking study of a character that is played by Orson Welles. He looks amazing in the role of the wealthy and powerful newspaper tycoon Charles Foster Kane. The story unfolds a series of flashbacks that refresh the memories of the viewers who know Kane. This is a great film to watch because the visual style is just stunning and inventive even today. The star cast of the film is also very experienced one. So, do enjoy this superb drama film and know about the life of newspaper tycoon-Kane.

So, it can be concluded that drama movies are one of the best option to know the issues in society. They depict the picture of different cultures and traditions. One can know about the emerging evils in the society by watching these movies. They can easily be enjoyed from various sites where you do not have to spend even a single penny, because there are so many websites that offer film watching free of cost.

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Article by Alyson Stanfield

An artist statement is a necessary component of any professional artists’ portfolio or promotional packet.

When writing your artist statement, DO:

*Write in the first person. It is a statement, after all.

*Be brief, 2-3 paragraphs at most. Always err on the side of brevity. You can write more, but why would you want to? People have short attention spans these days. Load as much punch into the delivery as you can. Combine sentences and delete ones that aren’t vital. As Henri Matisse said in his treatise on painting, “All that is not useful to the picture is detrimental.” The same could be said of your statement.

*Describe the current direction of your work and your approach, particularly what is unique about your methods and materials.

*Sit on it for a few days and come back to it with a fresh mindset. Most artists, in my opinion, hate their statements because they rushed them in preparation for an exhibit and didn’t care to spend any more time on them. How do you expect it to be any good if you don’t work at it?

*Consider more than one statement if you are trying to discuss more than one body of work. If you try to get too much into a single statement, you run the risk of saying nothing and trying to be everything to all people. This is bad marketing/bad promotions.

*Allow your artist statement to grow, change, and mature along with your work. Don’t let it sit on a shelf and collect dust. It should be organic and you shouldn’t be afraid to change it and make it better.

*Make sure your statement passes the litmus test. Above all, viewers should be compelled to put the statement away and look back at the work. Your statement isn’t successful if people read the words on the page, and then put them down and go on to the next artist.

When writing your artist statement, DO NOT:

*Use too many personal pronouns. Yes, I said to write in first person, but try to severely limit the number of “I”s, “me”s and “my”s that are used. You’ll be amazed at how many other ways there are to phrase things. You want people to relate to your words and to your art. Too many personal pronouns will put up an unnecessary a barrier.

*Tell your life story. You can keep that for your bio (as long as it’s interesting). Your artist statement is only about the current direction of your work.

*Quote or refer to anyone else by name. Keep the focus on you and your art. Mentioning another name shifts the readers’ attention from your art to the other person.

*Forget to use spell check and ask someone else to read it over for you.

View the time to write your artist statement as an opportunity to clarify your thoughts. A well-written statement, approached deliberately and thoughtfully, can be a boon to your self-promotion efforts. You’ll use the language on your Web site and in grant applications, press releases, brochures, and much more.

Copyright 2008 Alyson Stanfield, All rights reserved.

The best way to get your art across to consumers is the make sure they see it in all the forms available. Using videos and multiple images, you can create a virtual experience for your visitors that is much like a real life art show. What do people do when they see your work in an art show? They look at it from different angles, from different light sources and from far away and close up. If it’s a sculpture, they will walk around it, look from top to bottom.

When selling or presenting your art online, it is critical that you are able to show as much of the piece as possible. You have to have enough photographs and angles to represent the entirety of the piece. You need photos shot in different lighting and various room settings. You need far away and close up shots. When most artists take a picture if their art for the web, they may have one or two shots and that’s it.

With the power of online video, it’s never been easier to show the whole of your pieces online.

If you’re not that great with a camera, find some inexpensive help to shoot the videos for you and perhaps even help you edit them. It’s not too much trouble for the return on your investment. People will not purchase an item they cannot see, especially art. Give your art the best chance to succeed online by giving it life online. Show your talent in all the best light. Learn more about creating a successful blog that makes sales!

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Article by Joe Keny

online social networks are in vogue these days, but what does this mean for the indie or owner small business? After all, are not some of these sites invaded by teenagers and college kids? And thousands of sites that exist, how do you decide which to use? This very simple to understand step 5 you can get quickly on your way to a place where you can enjoy all the online social networking company that offers you love and want to push!

UNDERSTAND YOUR MARKET with all your marketing efforts, you must be clear what you are targeting the market for your products / services, and measurable results that you seek to answer this objective group.You ‘ ll know you are where you can fill in the blanks of these three sentences: “I am more interested in achieving [description of the person, or a specific group of people] who (need / want / desire) a solution to [complete a description of their need / problem / issue here]. “My [product / service name] responds to this (need / problem / issue).” My goal is to [achieve / register / sell / sign-up] XX [put a number in place of the xx's] of the market at [name of event / web page title or on the phone / via e-mail/etc.] on [date, time]. “If you have a second, third or more of the objectives already in mind, list them all in chronological order.* examples of descriptions: other bodies, such as chiropractors, acupuncturists and Feldenkrais practitioners, who specialize in Working with athletes to improve their performance, emerging artists in the Portland market who want to be as successful in business as they are in their creative process and products to mid-career artists who want to be represented by a level galleries in Europe; entrepreneurs who are looking for unusual holiday opportunity; average consumer products companies that want to expand into a new market with their existing product line.

UNDERSTANDING THE SOCIAL NETWORKING SITESUnderstand networking sites serve this social contract. Create a list or a spreadsheet listing the social networks you would be a place of your target market uses. List of the key tools for each site, and you see how these tools are used as d ‘ others in similar businesses to your list includes own.My these sites for my own business (at the top of my list – but not all!): MySpace, LinkedIn, YouTube, Biznik, Naymz, eHow.The tools include video playback, blogs, the article was published, promotions, groups, instant messaging capabilities, sending newsletters, turning “Top Friends” lists, kudos section, the work I use a history.How Part of These tools include: To promote the events, after “how-to’s” for the audience I target that offers valuable information for myself while establishing themselves as expert, through the website SEO engines pushing my ads to the top of most search engines, to request assistance or resources to publish calls for art / entertainment / communications, as a marketing tool to promote my professional services as a consultant and valuable resource.Here is a specific example: MySpace page is set up for my company working artists LLC. I re-post my blog from my name brand blogs (adriennefritze.com and “De the spirit of an “on workingartistsonline.com) and any press releases, announcements of exposure, the rotation of an calls.I Top Friends list different groups of artists attention to the page, the page is a subtly different view, often refreshing the brand and give it a dynamic feeling. I post videos from YouTube and other sources containing information or information about the costs that are relevant to artists and performers who visit the page.The the results I have achieved is that: 1) that the page receives almost no spam in their mailbox, 2) we ‘ve booked other artists parts of the country, in our small gallery in the north-west of Portland industrial that we otherwise would not have been able to [one artist in particular comes to mind - Joroko, a political artist out of Denver. His website is at http://www.joroko.com], 3) we have built an identity in the local arts community with other arts groups and individuals who have not experienced our existence.I am always surprised when I go to an event or another and to hear someone talk about this issue or this work, we propose through the artists who have discovered on MySpace or other social networking sites I use.

prioritize the sites according to your marketing NEEDSAfter you ve determined that two or three social networks are best for you and your company, the priority of their importance to you. Then, write for each site a list of all elements of this site you will need to provide content. The priority of these lists and.

write down your specific goals for each SITEFor site in your list, write your specific objectives for the social site to help you achieve your marketing objectives more important. For example: more traffic to a page on my site promoting the opening of a new exhibition that provides a link RSVP. Or, to receive dozens of responses to a call for art for an exhibition theme coming to the gallery.

CREATING A CALENDAR TRACKING AND ITFinally, establish a schedule for your plan marketing (if you have not already), and taking it into the objectives and tasks described in the previous steps. Put the tasks in your calendar or daily planning tool, and then you them. to familiarize themselves with the tasks and the time it takes to do them, you can adjust your schedule to better reflect the fact that reality.The key in any marketing tool is to do your homework first, including the creation of your strategy and the development of tactics and tasks before you begin to put into works – which in the case of social networking sites means working on your profiles. I guarantee that you will use much less time, and you do the first things that moves forward and then your company more time to experiment with other things you find on these sites.

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Fascinated by the exploits of escapologists?

Without doubt the grand master of escapology was Harry Houdini who used to wow audiences with his amazing feats back in the early 1920s. Today escapology still remains a popular attraction and large crowds gather whenever an Escape Artist is performing a death-defying stunt. Chained and bound, it can often seem impossible for the Escape Artist to break free for their confines. Many Stuntmen set the most impossible times to try to escape from their shackles. A number will hide behind screens as they try to break free, whilst others are in full view of the audience. The services of an Escape Artist can be hired for a variety of events and they’ll provide a visual treat for the crowds in attendance. Book an Escape Artist for your next corporate function and they’ll captivate the audience with their riveting escapology routine.

Are you sitting comfortably?

Think about the poor Escape Artist that is chained and hung from his heels on centre stage. Spectacular stage shows are choreographed by a professional Escape Artist. They can leave the audience on the edge of their seats as they try to escape from their chains. Individual shows can be arranged for private corporate clients, or the Escape Artist can perform in an outside setting for groups of families. Holding a village fete in the future? Perfect. A professional Escape Artist is the ideal crowd drawer and their routine could be the highlight of the occasion. Book the services of escapology Stuntmen for product launches, awards ceremonies, family fun days or steam rallies. Their amazing routine proves to be popular with a wide range of audiences.

Take to the street

Remember the street parties of old (ecky thump when I was a lad). The time when families and friends would gather to make their own entertainment? Well, there’s a bit of good news. Street entertainment still exists! It’s alive and well and you can enjoy the exploits of an Escape Artist as Stuntmen perform amazing stunts in the street. You might have to close the street first (please get permission for this) but the services of an Escape Artist can keep guests entertained if you decide to put on a show. A clever mix of comedy, daring stunts and audience activity makes the exploits of the Escape Artist totally enthralling. Arrange a show for the villagers and let the Escape Artist lose on the crowds.

Article by otto Roberto, Reinaldo Arvelo

Arvelo is a fine artist and entrepreneur. He lives in NJ and works as an Administrative Assistant for School Programs. A BA from NJCU in…

Your art work should always be accompanied by an artist statement and resume if you are going to submit your work to a gallery. Your statement should be your defense and your voice. Your resume should be a brief collection of experiences, exposure, organizations, commissions, publications, or lectures. The importance of having both an artist statement and resume is essential for all beginning artists.

Your Artist Statement:

For your statement try not to be vague. Always explain “why” you say what you say. As an artist, I focus on three important details in my statement. Your influence, Your Process, and Your Intention. When writing about your art it is best to describe what your influences are. For example, if nature is your motivation than explain what are the influences that nature provides you. Your influences can be spiritual just as long as you explain why and what they are and how they influence you.

The way you execute your work is also an important topic in your statement. Your process should reflect with your influences. Do not confuse your work habit with your process. Focus on the evolution of the work itself. Why do you use that color? Why is it shaped that way? Keep in mind that your materials also play a big part in your statement. Even the surface you work on can play a big important aesthetic meaning or quality to your artwork.

Lastly, on writing a good artist statement, you should explain your intention. Give your defense on what you are trying to tell people about your work. Is you work to explain, stimulate, poke fun of, inform, or an opinion or maybe a belief. No matter what the intent it should represent you and your work. I usually end my statement with the intention because it answers the “why” process and the “what” influences that support it.

Your Artist Resume:

Your artist resume is simply a listing of your artistic career and experience. Even if you do not have much experience you can still be able put together a good resume. Start by writing down gallery shows you have been in and keep group shows and solo shows apart. What commissions, projects or art work you have sold? List any periodicals you have been in like magazines, books, and articles. Any organizations, clubs, or memberships you are a part of. Make sure to provide your information like an address, email and phone number to contact you. Also add your education. Below is a simple setup on how to put together your resume:

NameAddressPhone#Emailwebsite

Education

Solo Shows

Year, title of show, name of gallery, city and sate

Group Shows

Year, title of show, name of gallery, city and state

Commission / Projects

title of commission or project, who commissioned it, city and state

Awards

Articles

year, publication, title

Clubs and Organizations

Employment (optional)

Make sure you keep your statement and resume up to date.

An Artist’s Statement from Charlotte Young © 2011

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