From the Brush of ILIA

Taproot Theatre Company Actors, designers & tech opportunities.

art events Photographers and art submissions.

Home And Garden Articles, Art, Poetry And Recipe Submissions

Online magazine poetry, art and article submissions.

Strange Horizons Art Submission Guide Guidelines for art gallery and illustration submissions.

Tri-Art Gallery: Fine Art Outdoor Sculpture Submission guidelines for Sculptors and artists.

Sarah Bain Gallery - Art Submissions Here are the art submission guidelines for Sarah Bain Gallery.

Project Gutenberg is an incredible wealth of information with 17,000 FREE e-books.

Plus there is a Free Image Library http://www.gutenberg.org/cdproject/,

Free Sheet Music http://www.gutenberg.org/music/

and my all time favorite, How to Tell a Story and Other Essays by Mark Twain http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3250.

This is a wonderful reference site and a great place to go to inspire the muse.

You can also add your ebook to the website.

ILIA

Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/

IDEABOOK.COM: How to choose and use clip art -- icons, metaphors, sign, symbols, and visual puns

Here is a very good resource that's chock full of data.

"Hollywood Media ONE"
Artist Opportunity: Woman Edition

DOWNTOWN LA LIFE MAGAZINE
http://downtownlalife.com

WOMAN EDITION

If you have art (in any medium), poetry, photography, or a short story
about women we would like to review your work for publication in the
May 1st Edition of Downtown LA Life Magazine. Please send art in Jpg
format. The written word should be in MSWord format only. Deadline,
April 15th 2006.

Send to: Editor@Downtownlalife.com
Attention: May Edition

ARTISTS' TUNE-UPS:

Free Arts Tune Up: for individual artists & small budget organizations
Saturday, March 11, 10a - 1p
Claremont Graduate University, East & Peggy Phelps Galleries, 251 E
10th St,
Claremont, CA SNGarcia@lacountyarts.org

This free event is designed to put you in contact with arts
consultants,
working artists & administrators who can provide information & answer
questions on
a variety of topics, including fundraising, how to market & publicize
your
art, information on new loan fund programs for artists & organizations,
benefit
opportunities for artists, training programs for artists &
organizations,
board development for arts organizations, arts education resources &
much more.

Here is how the Arts Tune-Up works:

There will be several tables set up with an arts expert/consultant
located at
each table.

Locate the table that has the topic you want to learn more about & join
that
table. Each table discussion will last for 25 minutes. After 25 minutes
an
announcement will be made, indicating that that session is over. Then
rotate to
another table with a topic you want to learn more about as the sessions
repeat. There will be a series of 5 round-robin sessions of 25 minutes
each.

You are welcome to come by for an hour or stay for the entire session.

Schedule:
Check-in: 10:00 to 10:15
Round 1: 10:15 to 10:40
Round 2: 10:45 to 11:10
Round 3: 11:15 to 11:40
Round 4: 11:45 to 12:10
Round 5: 12:15 to 12:40
Networking: 12:45 to 1:00 p.m.

Topics for Artists:
Artists Studios, Housing, & Residencies
Arts Loan Fund
Benefit Opportunities for Artists
Best Foot Forward
Business Training
Legal: Contracts, Copyright, Trademarks & Collections
Financing Your Project
Fundraising
Getting Your Music Recorded, Heard, & Sold!
How to Get Hung (for Visual Artists)
Internships
Intro to Public Art
Marketing & PR for Performing Artists
Marketing for Visual Arts
Promoting & Publicizing Your Performance
Tax Tips for Artists
Working in Arts Education (K-12)

Topics for Organizations:
Arts Education In-School Resources (K-12)
Arts Loan Fund
Board Development
Business Training
Contracts, Copyright, & Collections
Financing Your Project
Fundraising
PR & Marketing
& more . . .

There will be lots of basic information for individual artists & small
arts
organizations. While seasoned artists, arts administrators & board
members are
welcome to attend, the information is geared more toward those people
who are
earlier in their careers & are looking for some basic ideas to help
them with
the business side of their work.

The Arts Tune Up is free, but you do need to REGISTER through
SurveyMonkey by
clicking on this link:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?A=109398450E39077

The Arts Tune Up is sponsored by the LA County Arts Commission &
Claremont
Graduate University in collaboration with the Center for Cultural
Innovation.

Andrew Campbell, Director of Organizational Development, LA County Arts
Commission, 500 W Temple St Rm 374, LA, CA 90012; 213/974-1343
acampbell@lacountyarts.org www.lacountyarts.org

Side Street Projects is pleased to present...
Get Your Sh*t Together VI
10 consecutive Wednesdays, 7 - 9p (March 15 - May 17), plus...
1 Saturday, 10am-2pm (May 20th)
@ Armory Northwest, Pasadena, CA
http://www.sidestreet.org/gyst

Beginning March 15th, artist, curator, nonprofit veteran, & CalArts
Professor
Karen Atkinson will once again offer her famed (& often-imitated)
career-survival workshop for emerging artists... & for artists who've
been "emerging"
longer than they expected.

Get Your Sh*t Together (GYST) will show you the stuff you should have
learned
in art school... but didn't. GYST gives you information & resources
needed to
make things happen for yourself without waiting around for some arbiter
of
culture to validate your work. GYST isn't concerned with producing
slick,
commercialized artists, nor is it some new age, touchy-feely "find your
inner
artist" crap. GYST is a program for artists, by artists that'll teach
you
bare-knuckled practical strategies for negotiating the baffling terrain
of the
contemporary art world.

Tuition is $125 & includes all this:

- The entire 10 week course including all guest speakers, that's 20
hours
worth of class-time.

- Access to the popular Curator Review Panel: a speed-dating styled
event
where you can get honest feedback in a nice environment from some of
the
areas best curators.

- The legendary 800+ page class reader, a veritable Boy Scout Handbook
for
working artists (enormous 3-ring binder included).

- NEW: The brand new GYST CD-ROM, chock full of organizing tools every
artist needs! Made by artist, for artists (for Mac & Windows).

Also, NEW THIS YEAR: access to the Artist's Business Center @ Armory
Northwest, featuring free wireless web, professional 35mm slide
scanning, large-output
color printing, CD burning, etc... TOOLS you can USE to implement the
strategies learned in the class RIGHT AWAY!

Visit http://www.sidestreet.org/gyst for complete details.

HOW TO REGISTER:

I) To Register by FAX (Credit Card) or SNAIL MAIL (Check or MO): Visit
http://www.sidestreet.org/gyst_signup.pdf to download the registration
form.

II) To Register by PHONE (credit card only): Call Side Street Projects
@ 626
798 7774 (M-F, 10am-6pm). DO NOT leave your card # on voicemail.

http://www.sidestreet.org/gyst

GYST is made possible by a grant from the Emily Hall Tremaine
Foundation.
Special thanks to the Armory Center for the Arts for their continued
partnership.

Center for Cultural Innovation presents:
National Arts Marketing Project
Tuesday, March 21,10a - 1p
Japanese American Cultural & Community Center
Registration Fee: $35 (Non Members) / $25 (BOA Members, DCA grantees,
LACAC
grantees)
http://cciarts.pmailus.com/pmailweb/f?cide=Ab9SGEL-K21EsFf3WA


National Arts Marketing Project - Positioning your Organization so
that It
Sounds as Special as It Is...& lots of other useful information: Learn
how to
build a brand identity for your organization and how to differentiate
your
brand from your organization's mission. Topics will include promoting
your brand
through the right communications mix, maintaining your brand with
relationship
marketing, budgeting and how to maximize resources. With very little
money,
you, too, can market your arts organization like a successful and
profitable
business markets their products.

The leader for this workshop is Nancy Hytone-Leb, an arts marketing co
nsultant whose clients include Playhouse West, McGroarty Art Center,
and the National
Arts Marketing Partnership. Her for-profit years were spent in account
management at three of the West Coast's largest advertising agencies.
Clients
included Saturn, Toyota, Honda, Land's End and Disney. This workshop is
part of the
National Arts Marketing Project.

To register for this workshop, please visit our website at
www.cciarts.org
(http://cciarts.pmailus.com/pmailweb/ct?d=BhzdlgAOAAEAAAhtAACZ3g ) or
call (213)
687-8577. There are scholarships available for LACAC grantees. Please
call
213-687-8577 and speak with Lauren Bailey.

"Hollywood Media ONE"
Artist Opportunity: Woman Edition

DOWNTOWN LA LIFE MAGAZINE
http://downtownlalife.com

WOMAN EDITION

If you have art (in any medium), poetry, photography, or a short story
about women we would like to review your work for publication in the
May 1st Edition of Downtown LA Life Magazine. Please send art in Jpg
format. The written word should be in MSWord format only. Deadline,
April 15th 2006.

Send to: Editor@Downtownlalife.com
Attention: May Edition

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