Get Your Art Out 2009
Submitted by: Lisa Annelouise Rentz on Apr 13, 2009 at 4:53 pm
Tagged with: beaufort county, creative economy
Source: Arts Council of Beaufort County
Get Your Art Out is a series of free and $5 workshops at ARTworks in Beaufort Town Center presented by the Arts Council of Beaufort County to artists who are working on (or thinking about working on) their careers. Get Your Art Out is a significant part of ACBC's goal to weave the arts into the fabric of everyday life in Beaufort County: artisans getting their work into busy galleries; actors on stage in the black box theater; artists in the classrooms imparting their creative process to teachers and students; painters sharing their vision with visitors; the voices of writers creating good reads for everybody. Get Your Art Out is designed to heighten ambitions and entrepreneurship, and diversity and accessibility. These components are modeled daily at ARTworks, ACBC's home in Beaufort Town Center, where the Get Your Art Out workshops will be offered. ARTworks is a 12,000 square foot community arts center with a gallery, theater, resident artist studios, meeting spaces, workshop rooms, and after school program.
Get Your Art Out begins Monday, May 11th, from 1 to 3pm on the topic of Creating Videos & Networking with YouTube. In this $5 workshop, producers Jeff Evans and Julian Gooding explain how videos and networking via social media are marketing tools for artists. Jeff Evans is the publisher of The Lowcountry and owner of Sea Coast Productions Julian Gooding is the founder of Outside the Box Media and is an award winning producer, director, writer and media artist for television and independent film for over twenty years. "YouTube, MySpace, Facebook, all of them are usable. I follow the energy of the youth," explained Gooding. "They don't do things professionally, but they get seen by the masses. I use their approach but as a professional, with all my skills and experience as a maker of documentaries, to move away from the film festival game, and instead I've created a central, online station for my work, making it easily accessible to K-12 education and a world-wide audience."
On Wednesday, June 17th, from 1 to 3pm, ARTworks Resident Artist Hank D. Herring offers a $5 Matting & Framing workshop, demonstrating how artists should properly measure, matt, back, and frame their work for a professional presentation. On Wednesday, June 10th at 1:30pm, ACBC is partnering with D'Jarris Moore, director of the Technical College of the Lowcountry's Business Hub program to tailor information about business resources in Beaufort County just for artists. "Learn about the planning, marketing, and development resources for growing your art-based business and expanding your skills as an entrepreneur," explained Moore about her free session at ARTworks.
On Monday, July 6th, from 1 to 3, folklore scholar Paddy Bowman will be at ARTworks to present Awakening the Artist Through Cultural Explorations: "Quality of life is tied to the vitality of our grassroots folk cultures — the neighborhoods and communities in which we live our daily lives. In an era when mass culture and commercial media increasingly press upon our lives and threaten us with sameness, traditional culture — whether our own or our neighbor's — is a resource we can turn to for renewed inspiration and a better quality of life." Bowman is the coordinator of the National Network for Folk Arts in Education, and in this $5 workshop, she will help artists and educators recognize, experience, and value the intangibles of Folk Arts, Folklife, and Oral History; she specializes in Folklore in K-12 education, race relations and place-based education.
These four Get Your Art workshops are followed by the summer deadline for ACBC's Quarterly Community Arts Grants on August 15th. These small grants are awarded for cultural activities occurring in or benefiting the greater Beaufort area. Artists should speak directly with ACBC staff about the application process: 843-379-2787. Another year-round component of Get Your Art is the Get Your Art Out visual art critique session, $5 every second Monday, 6 to 8pm, facilitated by artist and gallery owner, Deanna Bowdish. Artists should bring their own work for critical evaluation. To finish Get Your Art 2009, presenters will be announced for these workshops in September and October:
- Monday, September 14, 1 to 3— The Substance and Semantics of Crafts, Folk Art, & Fine Arts, $5
American Fine Crafts; the Indie DIY hand-crafted movement; Fine Art; Folk Art— How do these genres compare and what is their role in the creative economy?
- Monday, October 5th, 1 to 3pm— Writing While Southern, $5
The South has a renowned literary tradition and an international readership. How are the writing residents of Beaufort County contributing to the genre, and how are their stories being shaped by the land?
- Monday, October 19th, 6 to 8pm— Speaking Out about Arts-in-Education, Free
Learn about what's happening in the schools, what’s changing in arts-in-education, what Teaching Artists do, and how the arts improve learning.