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May: Pricing and Presenting Your Art / Funding Your Career
Jeffrey Mueller, Gallery Director at Silvermine Arts Center
Jeffrey Mueller is gallery director at Silvermine Arts Center, New Canaan, CT, where he has curated over 100 exhibitions. Mr. Mueller oversees a roster of approximate 300 artists whose work can be found in major corporate and private collections, as well as, in the permanent collection of many important institutions such as MoMA, The Metropolitans Museum of Art, and the National Gallery. In addition to working at Silvermine Arts Center, Mr. Mueller is an adjunct Art History Professor at Purchase College and Western Connecticut State University. Prior to joining the staff of Silvermine Arts Center, he was Associate Director at RJ Fine Arts in Stamford. Mr. Mueller holds a MA in Modern and Contemporary Art, Criticism and Theory from Purchase College; a BA in Art History from University at Albany and a BFA in Fine Art Photography from Rochester Institute of Technology.
June: Making a Living as an Artist
Jane Pollak www.janepollak.com
Jane Pollak is one of the northeast’s foremost coaches of entrepreneurial women and a living example of how to turn a passion into a thriving business. A successful entrepreneur, public speaker, author of Soul Proprietor and business coach, Jane launched her professional career in an unlikely field – egg decoration. Jane’s story is an odyssey that led her from remote craft fairs and customer rejections to an invitation to the White House and appearances on NBC’s Today Show. National publications featured Jane’s artwork as early as 1985, when her patchwork quilt eggs were showcased in Country Living Magazine. Since then, her work has appeared in The New York Times and other prominent publications.
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January: Goal Setting and Career Planning
Jane Pollak www.janepollak.com
Jane Pollak is one of the northeast’s foremost coaches of entrepreneurial women and a living example of how to turn a passion into a thriving business. A successful entrepreneur, public speaker, author of Soul Proprietor and business coach, Jane launched her professional career in an unlikely field – egg decoration. Jane’s story is an odyssey that led her from remote craft fairs and customer rejections to an invitation to the White House and appearances on NBC’s Today Show. National publications featured Jane’s artwork as early as 1985, when her patchwork quilt eggs were showcased in Country Living Magazine. Since then, her work has appeared in The New York Times and other prominent publications.
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February: Legal Considerations for Artists
Steven A. Certilman, PC (Fairfield Event) www.certilman.com
Mr. Certilman draws on thirty years of experience in legal problem-solving across a wide range of commercial subject matters to provide advice and counsel which is both insightful and practical. Mr. Certilman is a lawyer who is passionate about the arts. As a collector, he is invested in seeing artists succeed and watching their careers blossom. He has been sharing his knowledge of the law with artists for years in his popular workshop, “Law for Artists~A Paint-By-Numbers Primer.”
Lisa Moyles, Esq. (Hartford & New Haven Events) www.moylesandtremblaylaw.com
Lisa Moyles combines her extensive knowledge of the law with a passion for inspiring people to grow. Ms. Moyles has years of experience helping small business owners to navigate general legal issues, as well as providing support around Intellectual Property (IP) issues. Artists will enjoy learning from Ms. Moyles, and her ability to make legal information accessible.
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March 9: Marketing
Jackie Battenfield www.artistcareerguide.com
Too many talented visual artists feel lost or frustrated professionally because they lack fundamental business skills and the confidence to promote themselves and manage their career. The Artist’s Guide: How to Make a Living Doing What you Love provides artists with the information, tools and techniques for developing and sustaining a professional life. It introduces valuable tactics – from planning and assessment to time management and negotiation – which are seldom offered to visual artists in ways that are relevant to their practice.
Author, Jackie Battenfield, an artist who has supported herself from art sales for over twenty years, teaches career development programs for visual artists at the Creative Capital Foundation, and Columbia University.
March 9: Working With Exhibitors
A Panel of Experts Will Share Their Knowledge
Moderater:
Sophia Gevas, Outreach Education Director at Silvermine Arts Center, New Canaan, CT
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Panelists:
Deborah Frizzell, Independent Curator, and Professor of Art at William Patterson University, Wayne, NJ DeborahFrizzell
Helen Kauder, Executive Director at Artspace New Haven, New Haven, CT artspacenh.org
Viera Levitt, Independent Curator and Gallery Director for the University of Massachusetts in Dartmouth www.vieralevitt.org
Laura Marsh, Director of Seton Gallery, University of New Haven, New Haven, CT SetonGallery
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March: Technology
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April: Financial Management for Artists
Kristin Merrill, Riverside Consulting
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Kristin Merrill has made a career of weaving her right-brain talents with her left-brain skills. Surrounded by art all of her life, Kristin is—first and foremost—an artist whose jewelry and sculptures connect the essence of the natural environment with the beauty of precious metals and stones.
But her ability to make connections is not limited to the art world. Kristin is equally adept at managing the intricacies of the business side of creative work, which she has proven as a former CEO, Vice President and Business Manager for small and large companies over the past 18 years.
The combination of these two skill-sets reveal themselves in the success of the Shoreline ArtsTrail, which she has collaborated on since 2009, and her own company, Riverside Consulting, which provides bookkeeping services, business management and support for artists and creative professionals.
