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| Instructor: |
D.
Jean Hester [view
bio] |
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8
Saturdays (10am - 1pm) |
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The
Armory Center for the Arts
145 North Raymond Avenue
Pasadena, CA 91103
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Need
an effective and professional web
presence for your art career? You
got 4 choices:
- Pay
someone to design a traditional
website for you (remember: you
get what you pay for).
- Ask
your friend's kid to
build you a free website (remember:
you get what you pay for).
- Build
a website yourself the "old fashioned
way," after spending $1,500 on
software that you don't know
how to use (don't
forget the $400 for upgrades
every 2 years).
- Build
yourself a professional
on-line presence using
the new "Web
2.0" generation
of free & easy "social networking"
tools.
Unless
you're a masochist, the correct answer
is #4. It also happens to be the
motivation for Side Street's
new survival workshop for artists.
Let fellow artist and certified
web-maven D. Jean Hester show
you the brave & easy
new world of the Web, which is
all about immediacy, simplicity,
community, and networking.
A lot has changed in the past
two years. More people are producing
& distributing on-line content than
ever before. Everyone is
a media outlet, but it's not because
everyone (but you) has become
a web professional.
It's because new tools have
made the mass
amateurization of media
possible. If history is made
by those who show up, then
you better watch out, because
here comes everybody.
Get Your Web 2.0 Together will
cover the philosophical
and strategy stuff first,
then we'll dive right into things
like:
- Blogs
and on-line content management
systems like WordPress, among
others
- Photo & video
sharing sites like Flickr, YouTube,
and Vimeo
- Social
networking sites perfect for
artists, such as Facebook,
Linked-In, Über,
ArtSlant, Twitter, and (yes)
even MySpace, which was voted
by PC Magazine as the "World's
Worst Website."
- Plus
a whole slew of free resources
for artists that can only
be found on
line.
This
class ain't all talk.
Hardly. You'll build your integrated
web presence right then and there
in the classroom, using both free
and/or premium services available
on-line. Bring your own laptop,
or borrow one of ours. When you go
home (or for that matter, anywhere
in the world with a computer and
web connection) you can easily update
your professional web presence without
the need for expensive software.
Tuition includes
free technical assistance and on-site
use of Side Street Projects'
Mobile Digital Lab for the duration
of the workshop (by appointment
Mondays through Saturdays,
10am-6pm).
Novice, intermediate, and advanced
users welcome. |
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HERE to get on the notification list for the Fall
2009 workshop.
| Instructor: |
Judith
Teitelman [view
bio] |
| Parking
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Free [CLICK
HERE FOR DETAILS] |
| Location
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Flintridge
Retreat Center
236 W. Mountain Street, Suite 117
off of Banbury Alley
Pasadena, CA 91103
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Option 1
Sign up for Option 1 and you'll learn
the basics of writing an effective grant proposal
from the one-and-only Judith Teitelman: LA's most
candid, experienced, and entertaining expert on
an otherwise boring (but crucial) topic. If all
you're looking for is stimulating discussion, cool
hand-outs, and some helpful exercises, sign up
for Option 1.
"Within
6 months of completing the course, I've received
one national award, one artist residency, and
a major grant. I learned more practical information
in a month than in the 7 years I pursued my BFA
and MFA, no joke."
- In 2007, Michael
Markowsky applied for
and won a $4,000 grant from the
City of Pasadena, as well as
The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation's
Power of Art award. |
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Option 2
Need a good kick in the pants? Option 2 gets
you everything from Option 1, plus... we'll
help you complete a real grant application that'll
be reviewed by a panel of real experts
— folks who are asked sit on grant panels and review
artist proposals all the time, like LACMA curator Rita
Gonzalez and Barnsdall Art Park gallery director Mark
Greenfield.
What's the hook? You get to watch the panel review your
proposal (and everyone else's) in real-time. And, you
even get to ask them questions afterwards. It's the ultimate "fly-on-the-wall" experience.
Option 2 includes:
- FREE on-site
use of our Mobile Digital Lab, including
Macbook™ laptops, Epson™ slide
scanners, Adobe CS™ design software,
Cannon™ digital SLR cameras, and
more.
- FREE editorial
assistance with your proposal & budget.
- FREE technical
support producing your supplemental materials
(Powerpoint slideshows, DVDs, page layout,
etc.)
- Plus,
you'll end up with a finished, vetted
grant application that's ready to submit
for funding. We'll provide you with a
range of funders to choose from. Or,
bring your own application to work on.
Applications for residency programs okay,
too.
Sorry,
but this workshop is designed for contemporary
visual artists. Only 16 artists will be allowed
to sign up for Option 2. |
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CLICK
HERE to get on the notification list for the
Fall 2009 workshop.
Made possible by a very generous grant from the Emily
Hall Tremaine Foundation's Marketplace Empowerment for
Artists Program.
© 2002-2009, Side Street Projects
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Recent
success stories from recent workshop alumni:
In
just the past 2 years, our workshop alumni
have won over $18,000 in grants,
including:
• Taz Yisrael received a project grant from the City of Santa Monica shortly
after completing our workshop.
• Chuck Feesago & Emily de Araujo both won a 2008 artist grant from
the City of Pasadena shortly after taking our workshops.
• David Lovejoy and Michael Markowsky both won a 2007 artist grant from
the City of Pasadena shortly after taking our workshops.
This
past spring, Ari
Kletzky was the subject
of an extensive article on the front
page of the LA
Times Sunday Arts
section. His featured
Islands
of LA project was developed
over the course of our GYST & WEB
workshops. Kletzky (who has a BA
in business) recently quit his day-job
at a loan agency and was accepted
into the CalArts MFA art program.
He begins classes this fall.
Shortly after taking GYST, Cameron
Gray got
his first solo show (ever) at the
Robert
Berman Gallery in
Bergamot Station. The opening was standing-room
only and Cameron sold several large pieces.
Cameron is now represented by Robert Berman.
Cameron's current solo show of "manufactured
art" runs through August. |
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