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Published: February 2, 2012
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CAP is pleased to offer one-on-one consultations between visual artists and one of three (your choice) local NYFA trained artist consultants. These consultations are designed to provide artists with individualized information on best practices for their professional careers. Specifically, artists may choose to request advice and feedback on topics such as:
FEE: $30 for 1/2 hour or $50 for an hour. The fee is paid directly to the consultant. DATE, TIME, PLACE: LOCATION: |
WHO ARE THE CONSULTANTS?: Note that all consultants can consult on any medium. For example, you don't have to pick a painter if you are a painter... TO REGISTER AND SCHEDULE AN APPOINTMENT: (Learn more about each consultant - scroll down) 1. E-mail Robin (Program Director at CAP) at programs@artspartner.org with your street and e-mail address. Let her know which consultant you would like to meet with and she will forward your e-mail! |
ABOUT THE CONSULTATIONS:
This consult program is part of NYFA's Statewide Consulting Program supported by the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation.
NYFA has launched this consulting program to disseminate professional advice to visual artists throughout the state. Excellent presentation of materials is crucial when applying for shows, grants, residencies, and when approaching galleries.
Interested artists will choose which consultant to work with and and make their own appointments. Artists will be asked to define one or two specific questions or areas that they would like help with. These could be related to the examples listed above or to another area of appropriate interest. These sessions are not designed to critique the content of art work, but rather to give feedback on the work's professional presentation. Consultants are not trained to give highly technical assistance on the building of web sites, but can give information about site management options and best practices regarding editing and presentation of work.
PREPARING FOR THE CONSULTATION:
After you make an appointment with a consultant, you will be sent a confirmation with a simple form to fill out and return (via e-mail) describing how you'd like to use your consultation time. This will allow the consultant to prepare for your session to best serve your needs.
If requesting feedback on written materials (bio, statement, etc.) you will be asked to e-mail them ahead of time to CAP so your consultant can briefly read them prior to your meeting. Documentation of your work samples do not need to be sent ahead of time.
You can also find a handout from NYFA on this website on one of our resources pages describing best practices for professional writing, website development and work samples. It is suggested that these be read prior to submitting your consultation form as the information may influence your questions for the consultation.
During the conversation itself, we will have computers with internet access for viewing your files, images, websites, DVDs and CDs. Since the review will focus on professional presentation, it is not necessary (or feasible) to bring original art work.
ABOUT THE CONSULTANTS:
Ben Altman
Learn more at www.benaltmanphotographs.com
Ben Altman (b. 1953, U.K.) is an artist who uses photography and photography-based mixed media. He lives and works near Ithaca, New York. Recent group and juried exhibitions include MARKup (Ithaca Tompkins Public Library), A Book About Death (Emily Harvey Foundation Gallery, New York), Flight (Ithaca Tompkins Airport, Ithaca, NY), Empty Chairs (Suicide Prevention and Intervention Service, Community School of Music and Arts, Ithaca, NY), and Photography Invitationals 2007-2010 (State of the Art Gallery, Ithaca, NY). Ben's pieces compare and confuse the actual and the photographed; among other subjects he uses himself and his home, family, and origins. The resulting work moves between ethereal and brutally corporeal, between political, personal, and enigmatic.
An 2009 alumnus of MARK - the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) competitive statewide professional development program for visual artists living outside of New York City - Ben returned to the program to be trained as an artist consultant in 2010. His likes to work on portfolio organization and conceptualization. He is strong writer and thoughtful editor. Having created and programmed his own web site from scratch, he has an understanding of the design and techical questions involved. He has also designed and built his own photography production studio, with capabilities in both digital and alternative printing processes. Before he began to work as an artist, Ben was a commercial photographer in Chicago for two decades, doing complex studio and location shoots. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Physics from University College London and has worked in many fields, from towing icebergs to designing racing sails to operating heavy equipment.
Carrie Chalmers
Learn more at www.carriechalmers.com
Carrie Chalmers is a photographer and artist consultant living in Ithaca, NY. Chalmers trained with NYFA to become a MARK artist consultant, learning how to advise other visual artists on their professional artistic careers. She specializes in work sample selection and editing for web or presentation, contact-building, information organization, and statement editing.
Chalmers is the co-founder of The Working Relationship (TWR), an arts group dedicated to promoting contemporary art in and around Ithaca, NY. TWR produced a variety of programming including art salons, exhibitions of international works in temporary spaces, artists networking events, the To Let Art Program, which installed site-specific works in vacant spaces, and exhibitions in conventional art spaces. She sits on the board of the Community Arts Partnership (CAP) and serves on CAP's programming committee. Through TWR and CAP, she has conducted studio visits, curated exhibitions, and sat on jury panels for grants.
Chalmers variously worked as a researcher, editor, and archive head at Magnum Photos between 1992 and 1998. From 1999-2000, she was a freelance photo editor in Washington, DC, where her clients included The Washington Post Magazine, Condé Nast Traveler, Talk Magazine, and US News and World Report.
She has exhibited in the Ithaca area and received grants from The New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) and the Cornell Council for the Arts. Her work explores human relationships and the uncomfortable balance between connection and vulnerability.
Allen C. Smith
Learn more at http://www.allencsmith.com
Artist Statement
For me, making art is a visceral experience and a meditation. Consciously deciding what the form will be, I allow my hand to follow a random path, periodically making judgments on formal content, movement, and line. In the end, the results are the routes of my synapses, evidential marks of my existence.
Biography: Allen C. Smith (his friends all know him as Denny) is an artist living and working in Elmira, New York. Recent exhibitions include the 2009 Rochester-Finger Lakes Biennial; awards at the Arnot Art Museum in Elmira and State of the Art Gallery in Ithaca; group shows at Exhibit A and 171 Cedar Arts Center in Corning, and the Atrium Gallery in Troy, NY; and a solo show in the Spotlight Gallery at The ARTS Council of the Southern Finger Lakes. A participant in the NYFA MARK programs in 2008 and 2010, Smith is a graduate of Pratt Institute in Brooklyn.
Professional Addendum: Allen C. Smith graduated from art school in the mid 1970's. He served four years as the curator of a small city museum; sixteen years as the owner of an art gallery and framing business; and thirteen years as director of an art services company. In 2003 he established a permanent studio to concentrate and focus his personal art production.
QUESTIONS?: E-mail Program Director Robin Schwartz.
