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" CUE Art Foundation's mission is to provide a substantial, ongoing transformation in the careers of accomplished but still under-recognized artists. By helping these artists make a successful transition to a sustainable career in art, CUE will increase the diversity of voices and styles contributing to the contemporary art scene."
They offer workshops/lectures programs usually in the fall and the spring, everyone can sign up. It's free and they are Non-for-profit.
Meeting Artists’ Needs
Spring 2006
I. The Artist-Dealer Relationship: Keys to Developing a Successful Relationship
Wednesday, February 8, 2006, 6:30-8pm
Speakers: Becky Smith & Zach Feuer In Conversation
Becky Smith is the Owner/Director of Bellwether Gallery in Chelsea that shows the work of eminent artists such as Amy Wilson, Diana Kingsley, and Marc Swanson. Zach Feuer is the Owner of Zach Feuer Gallery (LFL) in Chelsea and shows the work of emerging and mid-career artists including Dana Schutz, Jules de Balincourt, and Luis Gispert. These speakers will outline the artist-dealer relationship from their perspectives. Finding a dealer whom you can work with is vital for every artist, this seminar will help shed light on the complexities of these relationships, as well as clarify what dealers look for in an artist and how to begin approaching galleries.
II. Taxes for Artists
Wednesday, February 22,, 2006, 6:30-8pm
Speaker: Richard Shebairo, CPA
The art market demands a certain familiarity with budgeting and taxes. Richard Shebairo, a certified public accountant and treasurer for the non-profit organization Artists Space, will explain the intricacies of filing taxes for freelance individuals such as artists. The seminar will include a “walk through” of a schedule C, the most important section for freelance artists, to help illustrate step by step what is and what isn’t deductible.
III. Artists’ Collectives: Getting Your Act Together
Wednesday, March 8, 2006, 6:30-8pm
Speakers: Dena Muller, Director, A.I. R. Gallery & Carrie Patterson, Member, the Painting Center
For individual artists seeking to empower themselves with better representation, artists’ collectives serve as a viable alternative to non profits and commercial galleries. Dena Muller, Director of A.I.R. (Artists in Residence, Inc.) Gallery in Chelsea, the first artist-run, not-for-profit gallery for women artists in the US, and Carrie Patterson, a member of the Painting Center in SoHo, which serves as a forum for emerging and mid-career painters in the city, will speak about their own experiences in the field.
IV. Public Speaking: Making the Elevator Speech
Wednesday, March 22, 2006, 6:30-8pm
Speaker: Chitra Ganesh
Installation artist Chitra Ganesh graduated from Columbia University with an MFA in 2002, and recently showed her work at the Rotunda Gallery and the Queens Museum of Art in New York. She is a recipient of a NYFA Fellowship and a Rotating Studio Program Residency award from the Artists’ Alliance. Ms. Ganesh will help artists understand how best to get their point across to other artists, dealers and curators in the limited time available in most of these encounters.
V. Grantseeking Basics for Individuals in the Arts
Wednesday, April 5, 2006, 6:30-8pm
Speaker: Luz Rodriguez, Training Coordinator, Foundation Center
For individuals involved in the arts who are looking for funding to complete a project, mount an exhibition, put on a performance, conduct research, or anything else arts-related, Luz Rodriguez, a Training Coordinator at the Foundation Center since 2003, will show you how to identify funders in the arts, explore the option of fiscal sponsorship, and offer tips on how to create a step-by-step plan to find funding for your needs as an individual grantseeker.
VI. Speaking Legalese: Artists’ Rights & Wrongs
Wednesday, April 19, 2006, 6:30-8pm
Speaker: To be confirmed
Topic: In a time of mass media and multiplication, artists need to be ever more vigilant regarding the ownership and authenticity of their works. Copyright law both on and off-line, and gallery contracts will be discussed.
VII. Materials & Conservation: How do Collectors & Institutions Think?
Wednesday, May 3, 2006, 6:30-8pm
Speaker: Oliver Hirsch, Director/ Founder, Hirsch & Associates
The professional production of an artist’s work is crucial. Oliver Hirsch is Director of Hirsch & Associates, a New York-based conservation and exhibition design company that works with private collectors as well as commercial and museum spaces. Artists will learn how their decisions in art making, the choice of certain materials over others, etc., affect how collectors and institutions think about acquiring, presenting and preserving contemporary art.
VIII. Becoming an Entrepreneur: Marketing Tips for Artists
Wednesday, May 17, 2006, 6:30-8pm
Speaker: To be confirmed
Topic: The business of art- how artists today must be adequately equipped in positioning and marketing themselves in order to become, or remain, successful full-time artists.
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All public programs at CUE are FREE, but reservations ARE required. Please call 212 206-3583 or send an email to info@cueartfoundation.org to register. Seating is on a first-come-first serve basis. We will accommodate the first 50 attendees each evening, and provide standing room only thereafter.
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Meeting Artists’ Needs is made possible in part by the Joan Mitchell Foundation.
CUE Art Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit arts organization that is dedicated to supporting under-recognized artists via a multi-faceted mission spanning the realms of gallery exhibitions, professional development programs and arts-in-education.
CUE Art Foundation's operations and programs are made possible with the generous support of foundations, corporations, individuals, and its membership. Programming assistance is provided in part with public funds from The New York State Council on the Arts through the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and the Experimental Television Center.
" CUE Art Foundation's mission is to provide a substantial, ongoing transformation in the careers of accomplished but still under-recognized artists. By helping these artists make a successful transition to a sustainable career in art, CUE will increase the diversity of voices and styles contributing to the contemporary art scene."
They offer workshops/lectures programs usually in the fall and the spring, everyone can sign up. It's free and they are Non-for-profit.
Meeting Artists’ Needs
Spring 2006
I. The Artist-Dealer Relationship: Keys to Developing a Successful Relationship
Wednesday, February 8, 2006, 6:30-8pm
Speakers: Becky Smith & Zach Feuer In Conversation
Becky Smith is the Owner/Director of Bellwether Gallery in Chelsea that shows the work of eminent artists such as Amy Wilson, Diana Kingsley, and Marc Swanson. Zach Feuer is the Owner of Zach Feuer Gallery (LFL) in Chelsea and shows the work of emerging and mid-career artists including Dana Schutz, Jules de Balincourt, and Luis Gispert. These speakers will outline the artist-dealer relationship from their perspectives. Finding a dealer whom you can work with is vital for every artist, this seminar will help shed light on the complexities of these relationships, as well as clarify what dealers look for in an artist and how to begin approaching galleries.
II. Taxes for Artists
Wednesday, February 22,, 2006, 6:30-8pm
Speaker: Richard Shebairo, CPA
The art market demands a certain familiarity with budgeting and taxes. Richard Shebairo, a certified public accountant and treasurer for the non-profit organization Artists Space, will explain the intricacies of filing taxes for freelance individuals such as artists. The seminar will include a “walk through” of a schedule C, the most important section for freelance artists, to help illustrate step by step what is and what isn’t deductible.
III. Artists’ Collectives: Getting Your Act Together
Wednesday, March 8, 2006, 6:30-8pm
Speakers: Dena Muller, Director, A.I. R. Gallery & Carrie Patterson, Member, the Painting Center
For individual artists seeking to empower themselves with better representation, artists’ collectives serve as a viable alternative to non profits and commercial galleries. Dena Muller, Director of A.I.R. (Artists in Residence, Inc.) Gallery in Chelsea, the first artist-run, not-for-profit gallery for women artists in the US, and Carrie Patterson, a member of the Painting Center in SoHo, which serves as a forum for emerging and mid-career painters in the city, will speak about their own experiences in the field.
IV. Public Speaking: Making the Elevator Speech
Wednesday, March 22, 2006, 6:30-8pm
Speaker: Chitra Ganesh
Installation artist Chitra Ganesh graduated from Columbia University with an MFA in 2002, and recently showed her work at the Rotunda Gallery and the Queens Museum of Art in New York. She is a recipient of a NYFA Fellowship and a Rotating Studio Program Residency award from the Artists’ Alliance. Ms. Ganesh will help artists understand how best to get their point across to other artists, dealers and curators in the limited time available in most of these encounters.
V. Grantseeking Basics for Individuals in the Arts
Wednesday, April 5, 2006, 6:30-8pm
Speaker: Luz Rodriguez, Training Coordinator, Foundation Center
For individuals involved in the arts who are looking for funding to complete a project, mount an exhibition, put on a performance, conduct research, or anything else arts-related, Luz Rodriguez, a Training Coordinator at the Foundation Center since 2003, will show you how to identify funders in the arts, explore the option of fiscal sponsorship, and offer tips on how to create a step-by-step plan to find funding for your needs as an individual grantseeker.
VI. Speaking Legalese: Artists’ Rights & Wrongs
Wednesday, April 19, 2006, 6:30-8pm
Speaker: To be confirmed
Topic: In a time of mass media and multiplication, artists need to be ever more vigilant regarding the ownership and authenticity of their works. Copyright law both on and off-line, and gallery contracts will be discussed.
VII. Materials & Conservation: How do Collectors & Institutions Think?
Wednesday, May 3, 2006, 6:30-8pm
Speaker: Oliver Hirsch, Director/ Founder, Hirsch & Associates
The professional production of an artist’s work is crucial. Oliver Hirsch is Director of Hirsch & Associates, a New York-based conservation and exhibition design company that works with private collectors as well as commercial and museum spaces. Artists will learn how their decisions in art making, the choice of certain materials over others, etc., affect how collectors and institutions think about acquiring, presenting and preserving contemporary art.
VIII. Becoming an Entrepreneur: Marketing Tips for Artists
Wednesday, May 17, 2006, 6:30-8pm
Speaker: To be confirmed
Topic: The business of art- how artists today must be adequately equipped in positioning and marketing themselves in order to become, or remain, successful full-time artists.
______________________________________________________________________________
All public programs at CUE are FREE, but reservations ARE required. Please call 212 206-3583 or send an email to info@cueartfoundation.org to register. Seating is on a first-come-first serve basis. We will accommodate the first 50 attendees each evening, and provide standing room only thereafter.
___________________________________________________________________________
Meeting Artists’ Needs is made possible in part by the Joan Mitchell Foundation.
CUE Art Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit arts organization that is dedicated to supporting under-recognized artists via a multi-faceted mission spanning the realms of gallery exhibitions, professional development programs and arts-in-education.
CUE Art Foundation's operations and programs are made possible with the generous support of foundations, corporations, individuals, and its membership. Programming assistance is provided in part with public funds from The New York State Council on the Arts through the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and the Experimental Television Center.
