Together we are stronger

7/9/2013

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This was posted recently as 8 things we, as artists, can do to keep the arts as a way to be creative and make a living:

Be active: support each other - This means support all of the arts, not just your art form. Go to the symphony,
Be active: be an activist - Don't sit back and let others voice concerns about injustices. One person can make a difference and many can make the difference.
Be active: be an artist - if you are an artist, you should never be bored. There is always something to create. Many successful artists created mounds of work, most of which doesn't see the light of day.
Value yourself, your time and your skills - Don't give away your art/time. It not only hurts you, but it hurts every other working artist.
Share your knowledge and resources - be a mentor to a younger artist, share your bad experiences, so others can avoid those pitfalls.
Focus, strategize and plan - approach being an artist like any other business.
Be critical, be fair - it does no one any good to live in a fantasy world. The truth (doled out carefully), can help others over hurdles and grow into great artists, rather than stagnate as so-so artists.
Know your rights - the internet is a wonderful tool. You now have at your fingertips information that was only available through a lawyer with a library of books.

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Bruno Fabriani link

10/20/2013 09:40:39 am

Greetings to all of you. I think it's fair and interesting, helping young people in this art - not - art . Unfortunately, the ancient technique of Pavement , has not found its rightful place in the visual arts. There is always something ephemeral . Photography and wood paneling, at least in Italy , they make up for the lack of documentation. Tradition has it that the works are carried out on asphalt. You Americans , you have continued the tradition , processing it for the better, with a festival in honor of the Italian streetpainting . Involve adults and children is a beautiful thing. A proof of this, I have lived for a short time in 2008 in Alameda , where the dream of Mark Wagner, with the help of other artists, had come true . Involving thousands of children and parents, for a common purpose , to make a guinness . All children , collaborated with each other for a common cause. This is also doing street art, a school of visual arts in motion, to give way to new generations, to grow together with its like, without being isolated . Involve parents and older people , with a full individual expression in art , an art manual, touch , and exercise . An art that costs very little , indeed , sometimes for free. Just think of the ancient pavement artists , who used poor materials such as coal, lime, colored earths and colored stones , of beaten earth. It takes little enough imagination to do and encourage those who want to do. Many cities and communities , should begin to make known the streetpainting , starting from schools and senior centers . The technique of Pavement is the ' ABC of Art . You can learn the grid , sketch , lights , shadows , shape, sfumato , the ornate , the embodied , the drapery ... in short , an art so poor is enclosed so much wealth . How madonnaro Italian artist and painter , I thank you for what you have created and continue to do to this art. Like other groups scattered in the states and around the world , you have grown in number and have made known to the people , the power of chalks and pastels. Thank you.

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Director of the International Street Painting Society, Jennifer is a chalk artist with 9 years of street painting experience, over 25 years of advertising experience and a lifetime of experience as an artist.

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