Artists and other interested folks can attend a presentation by Julia Csekö this Thursday, November 19, 2020, 6:30 PM EST, as part of the Somerville Arts Council's Home Alone Art Series. The free artist talk is called Speaking Truth to Power. Julia Csekö will share her trajectory as an art maker and community organizer. From the artist's description: I will show a bit of my … [Read more...]
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Virtual Programming: Getting Started
It's time to get the future started. Since March 2020, the COVID-19 crisis has separated Massachusetts artists and arts patrons from in-person cultural experiences. There are some exceptions, like outdoor performances at Starlight Square in Cambridge or socially-distanced, timed-entrance indoor attendance at spacious venues like MASS MoCA in North Adams. But … [Read more...]
Free Business-Focused Webinars for Artists
With the COVID-19 pandemic's devastating effect on practicing artists, Assets for Artists has redesigned its free business and financial education programming to provide artists with more distance-learning opportunities that focus on pandemic recovery and largely retain the intimate cohort-focused style of in-person workshops. Taxes for Artists & Preparing for a Downturn … [Read more...]
Online Sales and e-Commerce for Craft Artists
MASS MoCA's Assets for Artists presents: Online Sales and e-Commerce for Craft Artists with Ayumi Horie and Alicia Goodwin on Thursday, October 29, 2020, 6:00 - 8:00 PM EDT. Are you preparing to sell handmade work during the holiday season, but have questions on maximizing your online sales? Assets for Artists is hosting a new webinar on that very topic, specifically … [Read more...]
Captioning Your Videos
If you've made a video but haven't added captions, have you really said enough? You've created a video. It could be a work of art itself, or a documentation of another work (a dance or interactive installation, for instance), or a reading of a literary work, or an explanatory video, or any number of the ways creative people utilize moving images. If your video includes sound … [Read more...]