Professionalizing Your Practice Presented by:CARFAC Ontario
Helping You Navigate the Maze of your Artistic Career!
Helping You Navigate the Maze of your Artistic Career!
CARFAC Ontario offers professional development courses for artists at all stages of their careers. These practical courses cover important subjects you need to understand to manage your art career. Students will learn important skills and gain knowledge directly related to the business of managing their careers as self-employed artists
Instructor: Christian Bernard Singer
Course overview:
As an artist, you are running a small business, and your success depends on how that business is run. This three-session workshop will address some of the business aspects that are specific to an artist’s career (such as marketing yourself as an artist, how to find opportunities, and what you need to know once you’ve been offered an exhibition opportunity), and how you can manage these tasks so that you present yourself in the most professional manner possible.
Topics to be discussed will include:
-Putting together your portfolio
-Promotional materials
-Artists’ statements
-Finding opportunities and submitting application packages
-Dealing with commercial galleries, public galleries, artist-run centres, public and private commissions, and festivals and art fairs, and how these contexts differ.
Instructor Bio:
Artist, curator, and art dealer Christian Bernard Singer (www.christianbernardsinger.com ) was born in Paris and raised in New York City where he began as a company dancer with Laura Foreman’s Composers and Choreographers Theater. A graduate of the Ontario College of Art and Design, he received his MFA from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University. He has taught ceramics and bronze-casting at the OCAD and teaches sculpture at Toronto School of Art. He has also managed grant application programs for both The Canada Council and the Ministry of Culture and Communications (Ontario), was Director of the 2005 Contemporary Art Forum - Kitchener and Area (CAFKA), Curator and Associate Director of Lehmann Leskiw Fine Art, and has served as board member for several arts organizations. In Fall 2008 he is opening Rouge Concept – a non-traditional gallery/design space in Toronto’s Leslieville area. Recent exhibitions have taken place throughout Canada, in the US, and Beijing. Christian is represented in Toronto by Headbones Gallery.
Cost:
Single Workshop: Member Rate: $120, Non-Member Rate: $150
Any Two Workshops: Member Rate: $200, Non-Member Rate: $250
All Three Workshops: Member Rate: $280, Non-Member Rate: $350
*All prices include the required textbook, Information for Artists (CARFAC Ontario, 2005). If you already own a copy of the textbook you will be given a discount; you must call the office to register in order to receive the discount.
Registration:
To register, please contact CARFAC Ontario by telephone at 416-340-8850. Electronic registration is available at www.carfacontario.ca/workshops. Pre-registration is required to ensure a spot.
Starts: Sep 30, 2008
Ends: Oct 14, 2008
At: CARFAC, 440-401 Richmond Street, Toronto Playing: Tuesday
Times: 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm Cost: Member Rate: $120, Non-Member Rate: $150 (Sign up for more than one workshop and save!)
Getting there:
For more information contact:
CARFAC Ontario Phone:
416-340-8850 Email:
carfacontario@carfacontario.ca
