The 22nd Harmony Arts Festival invites visual artists to submit high quality original artworks in any medium, maximum three pieces, for adjudication for a group exhibition during the 10-day festival....
Michael King makes an interesting point about supply efficiencies on his blog:Gamblin Cad Red :: Mmmmmmmmmmm, yummy!!!I wish all manufacturers offered their oil paints in cans. Gamblin&nbs...
From the Huffington Post:In January, e-commerce site Esty.combanned Tracy Robertson from selling goods on its marketplace after discovering that she had outsourced some of her work.......
GETTY IMAGES ... Hit us with your best shots.Getty Images has partnered with Flickr to bring you one cool contest. Were looking for your best Canadian shots: summers at the cottage, a busy...
We invite all CARFAC BC members in good standing to participate in our inaugural postcard fundraising event, Wish You Were Here taking place on Friday June 22 at Woodward’s Atrium, 111 West Hastings ...
ARABELLA Canadian Landscape Contest:Early Bird Call to Artists Ends April 30th!Enter the ARABELLA Canadian Landscape Painting Contest!www.arabellacanadianla ndscape.comThis juried landscape-painting c...
From The Beast:The skull, daubed with "household gloss" paint, is entitled Hallucinatory Head and comes in a limited edition run of 50. The eye-watering prices were unveiled da...
I am "living" a great fundraising scheme that I think others may find it worthy of consideration.Last Spring, I wanted to spend a lot of time in France. I am a born-again Francophone. A...
The arts services that are easiest to endorse and support are initiatives that operate as non-profit societies like this great new local resource in Vancouver for artists interested in exploring glas...
From Art in America:Two decades ago, 60 Minutess Morley Safer brought philistinism to new lows with his "Yes . . . But Is It Art?" segment, asking whether a vacuum cleaner or a urinal could b...
MAGNIFICENT AND EVOCATIVE! As close as cinema gets totracking the impulses and paradoxes of a gifted imagination.—Aaron Hillis, Village VoiceTHRILLING! Akin to being in a museum thats come alive...
Alyson B. Stanfield has an art business blog that is great. As I am averse to Facebook, readers of this blog might value four of her posts:How to create a Fan Page and the value of fan pages..Ho...
Artspire in an amazing initiative for artists and arts organizations in the US makes me jealous.Launched last fall by the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), Artspire.org is a new comm...
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There’s nothing like a good story, and the story about the change of my name at the top of this page is a great one. Why I have done this is now a script that is to be produced in Vancouver’s PAL Stu...
Newsweek Magazine has an interesting article by Blake Gopnik about Damien Hirst and his relationship with money/the market. What has happened in the last five years or so, however...
Ive posted about KickStarter before, but my student, Alexander, sent me this link to a BoingBoing post about a visual artist who uses KickStarter to fund her projects and works outside the gallery/gr...
The Globe and Mail has a great article online for artists (small businesses) wishing to establish a website:It’s not uncommon for clients to approach Paul Bellows wanting to build their own Facebook-...
One of my students sent me this link to a resource on copyright. It is the website of Artists Legal Outreach based in Vancouver:We are a group of volunteer lawyers and law students committed to worki...
A great way to become a better seller of artwork is to go through a challenging purchase in full consciousness, so I like to assign my students the hypothetical challenge of selecting a domestic prod...
Here is a website that lists zillions of Canadian visual artists. I like to use this site as a research tool. I can use the list to visit a large number of artists websites, blogs and web pages and o...
The Huffington Post has a provocative article by Mat Gleason about NOT donating to art auctions:There is a tradition of auctioning original works of art donated by artists to raise money for charitab...
The term “contemporary art” has long been associated with the modernist and postmodernist movements because at the time those trends emerged, the words “contemporary art” or “modern art” also meant t...
A return policy is something every artist should consider. How you handle a customer that wants to return or exchange an artwork can have a lasting impact on your career—especially given the impact o...
I met Bill Horne as a result of my interest in CARFAC. Bill was head of the BC branch of CARFAC when we met and we have maintained a professional relationship for many years. He wrote to me to propos...
Earlier today my friend and fellow photographer posted a link to a craigslist ad from a woman in Seattle looking for a wedding photographer. The woman was upset because she thought that $3,000 for a ...
Significant Objects (SO) is/was an experiment that provides comprehensible and creative documentation to illustrate just how valuable stories can be when we sell objects like artwork. The people invo...
I was surprised to get an email from someone asking why there was no mention of Etsy on my blog. (Answer: This is my second blog. I am old. I had mentioned Etsy on my last blog.) Considering that Ets...
One of the assignments in my classes at Emily Carr University of Art & Design, is to submit some resources that we do not discuss in class. Below is part one of some of the resources submitted by...
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