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| THE ARTIST'S SURVIVAL KIT: TIPS ON
MAKING A LIVING WHILE MAKING ART
by Debbie Crockett-Rice, Series Developer, "Tuesdays with the Muse" |
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A dynamic kick-off to the 2002 Tuesdays with the Muse program at the CMFA,
will address the timely dilemma of how artists can survive financially on
Cape Cod.
This panel discussion will offer survival tips to artists of all mediums. Debra Oakes, from Centerville, is the Executive Director of the Arts Foundation of Cape Cod, has served her passion for the arts well. Having moved to Cape Cod seven years ago with a background in community planning, she joined a program at the Lower Cape Community Development Corporation which dealt with the need of artisans to foster their art-based businesses. Her mission has been clear from the start: to enable Cape Cod artists to survive the creative life. Her Arts Foundation of Cape Cod is the sole nonprofit art and culture umbrella organization of Barnstable County. This organization services the entire spectrum of fine arts and crafts, the performing arts, and cultural groups and businesses. The main objective is to help the arts thrive on Cape Cod. Their annual events are the following: Fleet Pops by the Sea, Arts by the Sea, and Citizens Bank Music on the Green series, and they provide ongoing business assistance and networking to artists and artisans. This networking has been instrumental cutting through the isolation the artists in their home-based businesses feel. Debra has been a passionate and determined advocate for artists and artisans on the Cape. Daniel Grant, the author of several books, based on artists' survival, spends a good amount of time on Cape Cod. He is currently the Development Manager for a multi-disciplinary arts center in Albany, New York. Prior to his current job, he was the Director of an arts service organization in New York City. His publications include such titles as: How to Start and Succeed as an Artist, The Business of Being an Artist, as well as The Fine Arts Career Guide and the Artists Resource Book. He has addressed such implemental issues for the artists as: the day-to-day necessities of the professional artist-things you never learned in art school and never think of when caught up in the rapture of creation. He provides information of how to get exhibited, finding dealers and negotiating contracts, selling directly to the public, the pros and cons of using publicists, art consultants, and art reps, as well as information on business, legal, foundation and public art support. As the magazine AMERICAN ARTIST comments: "Daniel Grant is one of the best-informed and most resourceful writers in the art field". Melanie Braverman, from Provincetown, is currently the Programs Administrator at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, where she runs the Summer and Fall workshop programs. Not only is she concerned with resources crucial to rural artists, she is also a published author and exhibited artist. She has published a novel, entitled East Justice and has recently completed a collection of poems entitled What I Want. Her work has appeared in American Voice, American Poetry Review, Southern Poetry Review and Carolina Quarterly and is the recipient of grants from the Mass Cultural Council in both poetry and fiction. Her visual art is exhibited regularly at the Schoolhouse Center for Art and Design in Provincetown. These panelists will offer invaluable advice for Cape artists who are facing the critical problems of survival and of marketing their work as well as networking. This is a must for all creative souls who are seeking the tools for survival. Admission is $6.50 for members with a CMFA Art Discovery Card, Regular admission has now been reduced to $8 for members, $10 for others. |
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