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San Francisco Open Studios 2007: More Info

October 13 & 14- Buena Vista, Diamond Heights, Fort Mason, Haight, Hayes Valley, Marina, Mount Davidson, Pacific Heights, Richmond, Sunset, Twin Peaks, West Portal

Fort Mason

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Shasta Open Studios 2007: More Info

October 13 & 14- Shasta Open Studio Tour 2007, featuring the work of 40 artists, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday, October 13 and Sunday, October 14. Maps

Become a Prosperous Artist
by Debra Russell

This 5-Session Series will give you:

• Fundamental skills to create a prosperous and sustainable art business
• Clear specific steps to build your art business
• Systems to create ease with the overwhelming stuff.

Become a Prosperous Artist includes:

10/24/07 - Multiple Streams of Art Income - Make a prosperous living doing what you love.
2-hour Live Workshop

10/29/07 - Business Management for the Creative Mind -You CAN be good at business
by Teleclass

12/5/07 – Systems Creation – Work Smarter, Not Harder – Automate and systematize!
2-hour Live Workshop

Two Live Workshops are available as stand-alone classes for $39 each.

But if you register for the full series, you will also receive:

• Two 1-hour Group Telecalls (meetings by telephone) in which you’ll receive personalized coaching from Debra Russell, Artist’s Success Coach
• Dates for the phone calls are 11/14/07 and 11/28/07, all sessions start at 6:30PM

Become a Prosperous Artist Series is only $99 (a $200+ VALUE!)

Debra Russell of Artist’s EDGE combines her two passions- the Arts and facilitating growth and change in people's lives. As an Artist’s Success Coach, workshop leader and keynote speaker, Debra works with creative individuals to help shape their success in their chosen field. In addition to working with private clients, Debra, a founding partner of Artist’s EDGE, has developed several innovative programs that have been presented at Trade Shows and Conferences across the country.

"I want to thank you for the insights that I gained at your seminar. Some of what you said did not register with me until later when I was building a new website for myself and I decided to follow your advice and ask for help from my friends. It is eye opening to realize that we often overlook resources that we have readily available to us. Thanks!"
Suzun Hughes, Multimedia Artist

More Details of 5-Session Series

Workshop: The Essential First Thirty.
Instructor: Matt McKinley

Two sessions workshop:

Monday, November 5th and Monday, November 12th

6.30 pm-8.00 pm
Market Street Gallery: 1554 Market St., Map

What to bring:

Part One:

• printed version of your most recent artist statement (not a necessity if you don’t have one).

Part Two:

• email to instructor a copy of your artist statement (revised, if applicable) as UNFORMATTED TEXT.
• One piece of your original artwork, 36” x 36” or less.

Now that you have produced all this wonderful artwork, what do you want to do with it? In order to get the results you expect, what are your strategies for changing goals into reality?

Talent aside, achieving success as a fine artist requires that you are able to communicate how what you do is different from anyone else. Often however, your window for communicating this information is 30 seconds or less. It is therefore crucial to your ultimate success to be prepared for all opportunities to present yourself, your work and your artistic interests and to be able to maximize the return on the first 30 seconds of any interaction.

"The Essential First 30" addresses the obstacles to your success by providing you with strategies and tools necessary to identify and take advantage of quality opportunities for promoting yourself. Discussed and practiced will be your approach, your presentation and your close, all focused on your goals.

Part One of "The Essential First 30" covers developing your 30 second or less presentation about who you are, what you do and why your listeners would want to know more about you.
You will be given strategies for developing an effective, concise presentation that can be applied to any interaction and that minimizes the time needed to qualify leads. Also addressed during this first session is writing an effective single page artist statement.

Part Two of "The Essential First 30" is the practical application of Part One.
Each participant will be given the opportunity to present their 30 second presentation followed by peer and instructor review. Through group activity, the effectiveness of your artist statement will also be evaluated.

In addition to his consulting business, McKinley Art Solutions, Matt is the Chief Curator at ARTworkSF (since 2002). He has been an invited speaker for the Small Business Association of San Francisco, consultant for the exhibit, "Reversing Vandalism", sponsored by The Friends of the San Francisco Public Library, a working member of the Bay Area Artist’s Guild and Curatorial Associate with BorderZone Arts, an international non-profit art and program organization. Since 1999, Matt has concepted, curated and designed over 400 hundred exhibits in various Bay Area locations, including fundraising exhibits for SOMARTS Gallery, San Francisco Sex Information, The Artists’ Resource Center of San Francisco and Project Open Hand.