ARTISTS ALLIANCE

ARTISTS ALLIANCE

-PROTECTION FOR ARTISTS
-INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
-PROFESSIONAL HELP
-MONITORING PROGRAMES
-COMPETITIONS, MARKETING STRATERGIES
-ABLE TO BE SEEN IN A PROFESSIONAL WAY
-ON GOING HELP AND SUPPORT
-THE MEMBER ORGANIZATION OF CHOICE FOR VISUAL ARTISTS
-THE ADVOCATE FOR THE VISUAL ARTISTS

Ellie Smith and Steve Biggins

Ellie Smith Talks "how i run my art business"

-Time management important
-Her and her husband work twenty hours per week
-Annual benchmark around $40,000
-Works at polytechnic
-Does bits and peices
-Gets contracts and jobs
-find niche market

-Gets to work in her studio two days per week
-Explores theme's and idea's
-Experiments and mixes black and whites, colour and photograms
-Trying to build up photography business in Northland
important to keep mind and research going after leaving polytech
-Do more learning and courses
-Have fun
-Run art work separatly from the business side

Steve Biggins

-Part time technician
-Glass blowing assistant
- Tutor night course
-Where do you want to go?
-What do you want to do whan you get there
-Commit to doing it
-Use work experience

-Steve gives alot of his free time and in return:
-Gained lots of learning opportunities
-find the tricks ppl find work and the mistakes ppl have made
-meet the right contacts and network
-being surrounded by other artists
-is able to do his own thing in his own time after work

Greg Spender Talks on Blogs

BLOGGING

-Decided to keep a blog instead of a workbook

-go to google
-search more blogger
-create account
-email account

-creation
-name your blog
-customise dashboard
-templates
-settings
-formatting
- use picasa
-pull photos onto your post
-make public y/n?

-publishing web address
-show date, comments
-site feed 50/60 ppl

ZERO: Cathy Tuato'o Ross

Organisation

-Initiated and collaborated by 9 selected artists from Australia and New Zealand
-3 emerging, 3 NZ, and 3 Australian
-Artists took on the job such as that of the curators
-Not a curate driven job
-There was no money given for this exhibition
-Used names that people knew to gain easier access to funding and galleries
-All input is from the selected artists
-Allow for slow movement
-Took 4yrs to created, the 1st yr was basically talk
-Spent 2mths in each gallery
-Touring exhibition around public gallerysfrom march '06 - august 07'
-Alot of research done e.g how to import artwork from Australia


Galleries

-The Suter Te Aratoi o Whakatu
-Southland Museum Art Gallery
-Ashburton Public Art Gallery
-Dunedin Public Art Gallery
-Manawatu Art Gallery


Funding

-Sponsorship
-Generosity
-Polytechnic Research Funding
-Kind Support
-Community Trust
-Donations
-Artists not taking fee for hanging the odd work
-Council Descretionary Arts Budget
-Sargood Foundation
-Creative Communities
-Exhibition Fees