Positive Aging Through Arts Education
Today’s older adults are “beyond BINGO” and are looking for things to do that engages them intellectually, creatively and socially. LifeTime Arts fills that need.
Artists’ Fellowship- Helping Artists since 1859
The Artists’ Fellowship has been helping professional fine artists in tough times since 1859. There are several ways to help: join, donate and pass this along to artists who are in need.
Subject field in your Email Needs to be more Revealing
By Cornelia Seckel I just took another look at my emails. Between 2:58 and 4:43 on a Tuesday, there were 62 new emails checking at 2:55. So the Subject of an email is very important. If an email is being sent I’m sure it is with the idea that I’ll minimally take a cursive look. I’m…
Where is this email coming from?
By Cornelia Seckel I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been suckered in to exploring an email about a gallery or an artist and their show because I’m intrigued only to discover that there is no indication of where the show is being held or when it is. Sometimes by the area code I…
The Not for Profit Mentality
By Cornelia Seckel I often get a call from someone who is part of an organization wanting to promote what they are doing whether an art show, concert, performance, workshops, classes etc. and the plea is “we’re not for profit so you should write about us/ promote us/ support us, give us a discount on…
10 Reasons To Visit Art Galleries
by Michael Corbin and published in artbookguy.com Thank you Michael for permission to reprint this list from your site artbookguy.com If you really want to know what someone is like as a person, mention the term, “art gallery” to them and see how they respond. I’m serious. People tend to have strong feelings about art…
The 5 w’s
Who, What, Where, When, and Why. All very important and should be included in any email you send out whether you are an individual Creative, gallery, pr for an organization or promoter. I find that often I want to go to the website that this email is writing to me about and there isn’t a…
Email attachments vs in body of email
Inevitably every day I receive several emails from artists who want me to pay attention to their work. So many of these emails just give me a website to link to. Frankly with several hundred emails every day I am not inclined to take additional time to explore work that an artist is “pitching” to…
Culturally Speaking Journal 