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Photographic Society of Philadelphia at The Plastic Club

DoNArTNeWs Philadelphia Art News Blog also features a review of ArtNUDE Philly at James Oliver Gallery, a cancer awareness event to benefit the Linda Creed Breast Cancer Foundation.

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Art Supply Sale On-line at Dick Blick Art Supplies

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As many Philadelphia artists and art organizations know, Dick Blick is a great neighbor to our arts community. When DoN visits the Dick Blick store at 13th and Chestnut Streets, there is always a table full of cool free stuff and the store’s management team makes every effort to help with great awards packages of Blick Art Materials for art shows. The spacious store offers artist’s wall space to show their art and the staff is very knowledgable and helpful.

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Social Networking Workshop at The Plastic Club Salon

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The Plastic Club Salon requested DoN to do a workshop for artists on how to use Social Networking. The workshoptake place Saturday 2/23/13 at 6:30pm. The Plastic Club has purchased a hot spot for internet access so participants can bring a laptop and play along. The cost is $10.00 to cover the cost for internet access.

The session will be interactive, the agenda is broad:

Brand Identity: What is your product? Who is your customer? What service or benefit does your product offer? What category is your product? What is your value proposition? Do you have a business card?

Web site: What is a domain name? What is a URL? Do you have a domain name? How to pick a domain name? Do you have a web page? Does your web page have search engine optimization code?

Social Networking: Do you have e-mail? Do you send an e-mail newsletter? Do you have a personal FaceBook page? Do you have a FaceBook fan/business page? Do you have a Twitter account? Do you have a Tumblr blog? Are you on Flickr? Do you have Instagram on your smart phone? What is HootSuite? What are hashtags? Do you have a Pinterest page? How and why to share on social media?

Blogging: What is a blog? What to write about on a blog? What is a hyperlink? Why hyperlink to other blogs and web pages?

Blog Platforms: Philly.SideArts.com, WordPress.org, Inliquid, heavybubble websites for artists

Photographing Your Artwork: Do you have a digital camera? Do you have Photoshop or Elements? Do you know someone who does?

Funding Your Project: What is Kickstarter.com?

Selling Your Art: Etsy.com, eBay.com, RedBubble.com

Resources:

Books: The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron, I’d Rather Be in the Studio: The Artist’s No-Excuse Guide to Self-Promotion by Alyson Stanfield, A Writer’s Reference with Resources for Multilingual Writers and ESL, Diana Hacker, Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling Disruptive Products to Mainstream Customers, Geoffrey Moore, Photoshop CS5 All-in-One For Dummies, Barbara Obermeier
How-To Websites: WhoIs.com, Lynda.com, Webmonkey.com, 1and1.com webhosting
Blogging: DIYThemes for WordPress, Google
Social Networking Websites: FaceBook, Twitter, Tumblr, HootSuite, Flickr, Pinterest
Workshops: Corzo Center for the Creative Economy at University of the Arts
Meetups: Arts Tech Philly Meetup Group, PANMA

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Kimberly Witham, The White Series

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Kimberly Witham, The White Series at Center for Emerging Visual Artists, Philadelphia Open Studio Tours 2012

New post on the new, improved DoNArTNeWs Philadelphia Art News Blog about Kimberly Witham‘s photography exhibit during Philadelphia Open Studio Tours 2012 titled The White Series. The photographers work is influenced by natural history dioramas, cabinets of curiosity and still life paintings. Read DoN‘s interview at DoNArTNeWs.

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Atmospheric at Main Line Art Center

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Delainey Barclay, Atmospheric at Main Line Art Center

Atmospheric, curated by Executive Director Amie Potsic, at Main Line Art Center features the artwork of three InLiquid member artists: Delainey Barclay, Dianna Koppisch Hricko and Maureen Ciaccio. The 75 year old gallery space is activated throughout with an installation of artwork using information sources in new ways that will expand how you think about the everyday texts we use in our lives.

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