Professional Growth for Individual Artists: The Business of Art

Atlanta

Cosponsored by the Foundation Center-Atlanta
and the City of Atlanta's Office of Cultural Affairs.

Learn skills that will help you survive as an artist.

This event is part of our Funding for Arts Month.

Free
90 minutes

To be competitive in today's art world, there are essential skills artists of all disciplines should learn to develop professionally. Join us for a stimulating discussion on how your work as an artist can be fully presented and experienced when you develop skills in the business and administrative side of artistic practice.

This session will explore information and resources to help artists increase their skills in promoting work and developing effective presentations and provide best advice on how to survive as an artist.

Presenters:

• Sylvie Fortin of Art Papers
• Michelle Gipson of Written Magazine
• R. Stuart Keeler

Sylvie Fortin, editor-in-chief of Art Papers, is an independent curator, art historian, critic, and editor who has worked internationally since 1991. She held positions with the Ottawa Art Gallery (Ottawa, Ontario), La Chambre Blanche (Quebec City, Quebec), and OBORO (Montreal, Quebec). Her critical essays have been published in Canadian, American and European catalogues, and her reviews have appeared in many periodicals, including Art Press, C Magazine, Espace, Fuse (of which she is a contributing editor), NKA: Journal of Contemporary African Art, and Parachute. Fortin studied art history at the University of Toronto, Université Laval, and Duke University. She has received numerous significant grants and awards as a critic and curator, as well as for her academic research. Fortin was named Lexus Leader of the Arts in December 2007.

Michelle Gipson, publisher of Written Magazine, has been writing since she was 13 years old, when she began the "High School Scene" column in the Nashville Pride. She earned both a B.A. in Mass Media and her M.A. in Counseling from Hampton University. She has been published in Jane, Black Issues Book Review, the Atlanta Daily World, and Chicken Soup for the African American Soul and Chicken Soup for the Recovering Soul.

Stuart Keeler is a sculptor, curator, and writer whose work explores the territory between the public realm and the role of the artist in the built environment. His frequent work in other media, including installation, sound, drawing, and performance, often explore multiple histories, private functions, and public mythologies, and question the human landscape. From the outskirts of Toronto to urban Chicago and the periphery of Paris, Keeler explores the evolving role of how art and the public can be united in subversive ways. Recently he has completed a series of works that challenge and offer multiple concepts of sustainability, "green", and the power of information systems presented within social art contexts.

Free Registration

This program is offered free of charge. Space is limited. Please arrive on time or your seat may be given away to others who are waiting to attend.

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