Socials for artists
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Most-recent one was at the Catwalk on Thursday July 31 from 6 - 8 pm
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For all artists of our community, those who have participated in Open Studios in the past, those who are interested, and those who may be interested in the future. Please come by, chat with your fellow NB artists, find out the latest openstudios news, and enjoy a refreshing beverage! Catwalk is at 34 Union Street.
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Open Studios and group show — Information and forms for 2008
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Open Studios
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Group show at ArtWorks!
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These are Adobe Acrobat PDF files. (Get Adobe Acrobat Reader)
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Website — Information
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Benefits of submitting images and/or artist statement for the website
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- More reasons for people — including reporters — to look at the website.
- More visitors to New Bedford Open Studios and to your studio.
- More reasons for sponsors/grant-makers to support us.
- Supplement a link to your website with images and text for people who may not leave this website
(I can take images from your website).
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When to submit images and/or artist statement for the website
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- No later than August 15, preferably much sooner
— if everything arrives on August 15 there won't be time to get it all on the website,
because in September the webmaster will be getting ready for his open studio.
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Have images and text on the website from 2007?
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- If you paid for 2008, your 2007 images and text will stay on the website unless you send new images/text.
- If you have not paid for 2008, your 2007 images and text will be removed in late July.
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Images for the website — number, types of file, pixel size, names of files
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- Number of images: up to 9, including image on artist statement page
— to simplify adding your images, please send all of them on the same day.
- Last-year's images: you can keep last-year's images or send new images — if sending new images, indicate which if any of last-year's images are to be replaced.
- Types of file: almost any image files (jpg, jpeg, tif, bmp, psd, gif, etc),
but not word-processing or Acrobat/PDF.
- If you want me to take images from your website, clearly indicate which ones you want me to use. I cannot take images from Flash/animations.
- Pixel size of images: preferably at least 340 pixels high
(images at least 1,000 pixels high or wide may be used for print publicity or for a possible future version of the website with larger images)
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- Names of files: if you want to control display order, start name of first file with 1, name of second file with 2, etc. Do not use numbers larger than 9.
- Image on artist-statement page: specify file name of a single image (if you don't, the webmaster will choose an image).
- Dots per inch (dpi) or pixels per inch: doesn't matter.
- Labels for images: images will not be labeled, because of the extra work required (sorry!).
- Questions?: email the webmaster, danielkamman@industrialjewelry.com.
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Artist statement for the website — type(s) of art, content, length, format
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- Type(s) of art: to attract more visitors, be specific — landscape paintings (rather than paintings);
modern furniture or arts-and-crafts furniture (rather than furniture).
- Content: whatever helps people understand you and/or your art, plus contact info (email, phone, etc).
- Length: just enough to get people interested; not so much that people get overwhelmed.
- Format: plain text in an email or almost any word processing file
(Microsoft Word - doc, plain text - txt, rich text - rtf, Word Perfect - wpd or doc, etc)
— save a Microsoft Works document as a .txt, .rtf, or .doc file, not as a .wks or .wps file
— do not send an Acrobat/PDF file or printed-on-paper or text as an image (for example, not as a jpg file).
- See above section, Images for the website, for information on image for the artist statement page.
- Questions?: email the webmaster, danielkamman@industrialjewelry.com.
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Images and artist statement for the website — delivering
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- Email: send all the image files and the artist statement to the webmaster, danielkamman@industrialjewelry.com. All files in 1 email is best for me, but if the total of all the files in an email is more than 14 MB the email may not be delivered.
- Postal mail: put all images and artist statement on 1 CD and send the CD to the webmaster at the Ropeworks:
Daniel Kamman, 123 Sawyer St #5, New Bedford, MA 02746-5403.
- Email and Postal mail: you may submit images on one date and artist statement on another day
(but please submit all images on the same day).
- Questions?: email the webmaster, danielkamman@industrialjewelry.com.
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Sample artist statements and images
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