I visited the new Hamilton wing of the Denver Art Museum last Thursday. The official opening is this weekend, but members received a preview. Great idea! Amazingly, it wasn’t too crowded, so we were able to enjoy viewing the art and incredible architecture by Daniel Libeskind. As an art patron, I enjoyed the architecture enormously. […]
The New Denver Art Museum Wing Read
I recently asked my coaching client, Margaret Short, to tell me about starting her blog. (I explain what she’s doing in this post.) Her answers are in purple. (I promise I didn’t pay her anything to write this nice stuff.) First, let me say that never in a million years would I have thought about
Margret Short Explains Her Blogging Experience Read
Getting more and more people interested in your work is key to anyone’s success. Therefore, artists should be constantly expanding and updating their mailing lists. And email lists are more critical than ever. Today’s Art Marketing Action newsletter shows you how to collect more email addresses (sincerely and legally!). But I want to know how
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I told you my mind has been spinning with ideas for new resources for you. I just added a new teleseminar called "Website Basics: How to Get Your Art Online without Spending a Fortune" with Patricia Velte as my guest expert. On Thursday, October 26, Pat will spend an hour telling you the basics for
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Tricia McKellar asks: How can online pdf exhibition catalogues be used to generate sales? How are they different from printed catalogues and online web images? I think potential collectors may like that they can download and print the pdf catalogue (often free). This might spur them to purchase a printed catalogue (if available). The advantage
Should you provide PDF art catalogs? Read
Attorney Kevin Houchin, who wrote about copyright in last week’s Art Marketing Action newsletter, has been blogging about more legal issues that affect visual artists. Check it out (especially if you’re interested in “orphan works.”) And, Kevin has signed on to host two teleseminars with me: November 1: How Copyright Laws Affect You: The Basics
In response to my Art Marketing Action newsletter about using two names for your art, K. Henderson commented: What a timely column!!! I do a contemporary work and really want to expand into something more traditional. I’ve been thinking of using another name but I’m wondering how to do it. I use my first initial
The Problems with Using Two Different Names Read
The statistics Jerry Saltz lays out in his Village Voice column “Art and apartheid: The prime real estate is still a men’s club” will get any serious female artist’s blood boiling. At least they should! Read the article and promise to do what you can to ameliorate those wretched numbers for women artists in New
Today’s Art Marketing Action newsletter presents the option of using a different name for your artwork that looks like another artist did it. If you use two names, can you share your experience and show us your work online? Just leave a comment (use the link at the bottom of this post). We’re curious .
One of my coaching clients, Margret E. Short, is blogging. And it’s not just any blog. It’s “Outside the Paint Box: Exploring Art, Painting, Pigments, Rembrandt, and the Golden Age of Dutch Art.” Margret is embarking on the coolest project. Next week, she’s traveling to study the paintings in the exhibit “Rembrandt and the Golden
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