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Here is a banner opportunity to gain a LOT of practical information on crafting your career as a professional artist, all in ONE DAY, and for one reasonable price.

There are seminars and workshops I've read about (and several I've attended) which cover the ins and outs of particular niche arts professions. But this looks to be the most well-rounded, ONE day-long seminar I've seen yet which tackles marketing yourself as a professional artist from so many broad angles. The only thing I've seen close to this in depth and breadth is the seminars available at Surtex Show and, to a larger extent, Licensing International. These shows each run for 3 - 5 days and the seminars and workshops they offer are about 1.5 hours each. But there are so many seminars and workshops over the course of 3-5 days, that you can pick and choose from many, many topics of interest.

I've taken many seminars at both of those shows and I've got my money's worth. But I can tell you that it cost *mucho dinero* to take the classes alone, never mind the travel and hotel expenses involved. This workshop costs only $200 (well, $195, officially) for one full day. You get to choose four seminars out of eight offered, which breaks down to $50 per seminar, which is a good price per seminar (for comparison's sake, Surtex seminars last 1.5 hours and are $75 each). Plus, there will be time to talk shop with others in a social atmosphere at the beginning and end of the day.

If you are in the Boston area (or will be September 13), and you are a working artist in need of some information, resources and a little guidance in a few key areas, OR you are a student about to fly the college coop, it's most definitely worth checking out. Great opportunity to gain a lot for not a lot of time or money!

I've attended workshops and seminars with Carol Eldridge and I can highly recommend her to anyone interested in learning about art licensing.

Here is a list of the titles and speakers who will be presenting:

Art Licensing: What it takes with Carol Eldridge, Carol Eldridge Designs
Art Marketing Today: New guidelines with Susan Fader, Ditto Editions
Art Etiquette: The Do(s) and Don't(s) with Suzanne Schultz,  Canvas Fine Art Gallery
Copyright & More: Know the laws with Brian LeClair, IP Attorney
Art Reproduction Today: Get the facts with Susan Fader, Ditto Editions
Art Representation: Is it for you? with Suzanne Schultz, Canvas Fine Art Gallery
Social Networking: How & Why with Corissa St. Laurant , Constant Contact

Speakers' web sites
Carol Eldridge (Art Licensing):
http://www.caroleldridgedesigns.com/


Susan Fader (Art Marketing Today, Art Reproduction Today):
http://www.dittoeditions.com/


Suzanne Schultz (Art Representation):
http://www.canvasfinearts.com/


Brian LeClair (Artists' Copyright Issues):
PDF bio download

Corissa St. Laurant (Social Networking):
http://www.constantcontact.com/index.jsp


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Art Marketing 21 Day Details
Date: SUNDAY, SEPT. 13, 2009, 8:30-5:30
Place: M2L, 104 BOYLSTON ST., BOSTON

• Participants select to attend 4 seminars from the 8 offered -- 2 from the morning session and 2 from the afternoon session)

ALSO INCLUDED:
COFFEE AND PASTRY  During Check -In.
COCKTAIL RECEPTION at the conclusion of
the day.

THE COST FOR THE DAY IS $195.00


Registration form PDF

Email: [email protected].

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Check out Kate Harper's blog for some good info, tips and links about the Greeting Card biz, and licensing.
I found this through twitter..lots of good resources there if you have the time to search and connect. I've been connecting through twitter, which makes it much easier.

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Another valuable resource for art licensing and print issues for artists can be found at Barney Davey's blog here.

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Tired of linking to other people's work? Find your own scoop!

Over at the Huffington Post, White House Watch journalist Dan Froomkin just linked to a goldmine for citizen reporters to explore over the next few months. Congress has begun posting reams and reams of Oversight Committee transcripts, giving journalists of all stripes a peek into the controversies that group hears every day. Here's a list of transcripts.

The kicker is that most overworked print journalists don't have time to comb through this gigantic archive. As Froomkin writes: "The legendary Washington Post investigative reporter (and fellow Nieman Watchdog blogger) Morton Mintz once told me some of his best stories came from sitting all the way through congressional hearings that other reporters had already left." This is a great chance for citizen journalists to find a scoop buried in congressional testimony.

If you're looking for more political inspiration, check out the Sunlight Foundation. They released a web application that allowed a web community to perform an act of community journalism, sifting through the financial records of 435 legislators in a few days.

It's a great project, generating some cool data about how online communities work. Check it out here.

 

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Book bloggers vs. magazine book reviewers, newspaper gossip writers vs. gossip websites--we could make an endless list of the new media conflicts between print reporters and the online communities that love their beats.

NYU professor Jay Rosen has a better idea that could help online communities and beat journalists work together. He just signed up thirteen journalists for this experiment: "Maybe a beat reporter could do a way better job if there was a "live" social network connected to the beat, made up of people who know the territory the beat covers, and want the reporting on that beat to be better."

Since I have award ceremonies on the brain, Steve Bryant's post about the web video award show, The Winnies, caught my fancy. These are strange new days for writers and content creators, so why not create strange new ways of celebrating their work?

Check it out--an awards show that lets everybody win a highly personalized award.

 

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I love the Internet as much as the next guy, but once in a while in a writer's life, you gotta unplug and hang out with real-life writers.

Over at The Millions blog, Edan Lepucki is writing about their do-it-yourself writing classes. I love it, and I'd love to support other writers taking the same do-it-yourself workshop approach.

"I've been teaching fiction writing out of my apartment for over a year now. Seven people show up to my place once a week to eat some gourmet cheese, drink some wine (or sparkling water), and talk about fiction writing."

Do you have problems (like me) sticking with one genre of writing? The MFA Blog has some answers for the multi-genre writer in your life. Places like University of British Columbia.

Finally, Publishing 2.0 ponders the idea that all citizen-created and user-generated content is floating around in an enthusiastic vacuum. This essay asks if we are building myths around this new kind of production.

Dig it:

"The reality is that “average people” don’t create a lot of content — at least not the commercially viable kind. Most people are too busy. Those that do “create content” — and who do it well — are those who are predisposed to being content creators. The have some relevant skills, training, raw talent, motivation, something."

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I hesitate to admit that I am off work today.

The idea of celebrating Columbus' American conquest makes me a little queasy.

Nevertheless, here I am, relaxing for one extra day. Instead of celebrating colonial urges, let's celebrate the journalism social networking site, Newsvine.

I've been a proud member for over a year, watching this hotbed of citizen journalism and smart readers grow, and I was happy to read this:

"Charles Tillinghast, the president of MSNBC Interactive News, a joint venture of NBC Universal and Microsoft, said the company intended to keep the Newsvine brand and Web site separate, though some features will be incorporated into MSNBC.com."

Also, every holiday, I love urging my readers to look up in the upper right hand corner of this blog, there is a very special option, "Enter e-mail below to subscribe." Sign up today and receive two free writing posts a day, delivered personally by a computer program from me to you. No spam, no distractions, just posts.

Don't waste anymore time clicking on my site. I'll send you my posts instead.

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After years of reading and thinking about The Believer magazine, I finally landed my first story in one of my all-time favorite magazines (MediaBistro asked me how I did it). If you get a chance, check out my new piece, "Skinning the Americans," about horrific radio horror dramas:

"I discovered an eerily similar story buried in a sixty-year-old radio program. Recorded in 1942 for the radio show Lights Out, the drama was broadcast under familiar circumstances: one year after a terrorist attack on Pearl Harbor and one year into an uncertain war. The show opened with radio writer Arch Oboler warning his audience: 'We urge you calmly, but very sincerely, if you frighten easily, turn off your radio now.'"

Now that you've wrapped up a summer of breezy beach reads, you might want to check out The World's Longest Book--a three million page opus by Richard Grossman that will be coming to performance spaces around the world. (Thanks, Millions)

After you sick of hearing how bloggers are only good for opinions and news aggregation? Ed Champion spotted these essays about some hard-hitting bloggers (like Ed) who aren't afraid to interview, chase sources, or report a story. Follow all three links for blogging gold: "Jay Rosen on the journalism that bloggers do. And here’s more from Scott Rosenberg. (Latter link via Books, Inq.)"

 

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Citizen journalism has already upset a lot of traditional boundaries between journalists and regular people.

Blogged book reviews are competing against struggling newspaper review sections and more citizen reporters are filtering information collected by newspaper journalists.

Today, Jeff Jarvis is writing about what he calls Vigilante Journalism--a new breed of punchy citizen reporters with videocameras who ask uncomfortable questions. A recent television feature about Jimmy Justice, a citizen journalist who confronts traffic cops, treated his work as obnoxious.

Jarvis responds with a passionate essay about the nature of citizen journalism, reminding us that even though the boundaries have shifted, the work a journalist, citizen or otherwise, has not changed. Check it out:

"On the Today Show this morning, David Gregory got on a high horse interviewing Jimmy, asking whether he wasn’t just a bit obnoxious...Well, what’s any less obnoxious about a reporter asking the same question? That’s exactly why subjects so often think reporters are rude: they’re being asked questions they don’t want to answer."

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'Write what you know.'

That's what countless creative writing teachers told me as I struggled to write during my undergraduate years. Nowadays, as a new generation of web writers are cutting their teeth and looking for inspiration, maybe that advice still works.

Instead of starting another blog about well-treaded territory like publishing, we should be looking around us for. Blog what you know--write about your community, your unique setting, and your unique community problems. It's a fascinating way to support yourself as a writer, and the market is just starting to heat up.

If you need some guidance, check out The Local Onliner, a great site monitoring developments in the world of community-focused, "hyper-local journalism." Recently that side discussed an innovative publishing project called New West, a local blog with multiple sources of income and a profitable model.

Follow this example:

"Online advertising is the core of the model, yes. However we also have several other revenue lines, including a small indoor advertising business, a custom-publishing business, and a conference & events business."

 

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A couple months ago, I asked a simple question. Nobody answered.

I'm going to ask again: In your opinion, who are the best wartime journalists working today? Who will our kids be reading in high school when they read about the Iraq War? Who do we trust with our truth?

Today, the Columbia Journalism Review posed a simple answer--we don't cover the Iraq War very well. If that's true, journalism can only suffer. They cite weekend statistics for Iraq War news, pointing out some glaring holes in our war reporting.

They offer some solutions, and take a fascinating look at how blogs can (and do) help encourage this sort of reporting. Fledgling writers need to think hard about this problem, because the country can't solve its problems if nobody reports on them.

Check it out:

"On Friday the Huffington Post's Eat the Press suggested a creeping sense of Iraq fatigue. The HP was referencing last week's Newsweek package which featured letters home from fallen American service members -- a package that by Friday only registered a pathetic seventy-six links on Technorati. That means that only seventy-six blogs linked to the package over the course of the week. By Sunday, that number had climbed to just 120."  

 

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Everybody loves to argue about what will happen to newspapers in ten years. We have a much more pressing problem: what will become of the journalists and writers employed by newspapers?

Ed Champion cheered me up last week, discussing that very problem. Check it out: "[I]t’s just like the early days of newspapers, with multiple newspapers competing for a city’s reading attention. Except the competitive model has now shifted to a micro-level, with individuals or collectives conducting this new journalism. Perhaps former journalists, many of them downsized because of recent newspaper firings, will initiate blogs of their own."

I think the future of writing lies in the "micro-level," with readers looking to specific voices and specific reporting beats. There simply aren't enough readers and ad revenues to support three general newspapers in every American city. Nimble writers are building smaller, in-depth projects.

Check out these examples: A few political journalists opened the online site The Politico this year; my day-job is at the nimble legal journalism site Judicial Reports; and Smith Magazine has built a lean, mean literary magazine on the web. What other beats can we follow?

As long as you are visiting Ed Champion, check out his interview with journalist Jane Ganahl exploring this strange new media world. 

 

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