About Us
Art Calendar is the industry’s foremost business magazine for visual artists. Founded in 1986, Art Calendar acts as a beacon to guide artists on their journey toward making a living with their art.
Written by knowledgeable industry pros and successful working artists, Art Calendar offers practical business advice on subjects such as art marketing, art law, portfolio development, exhibition presentation, communication skills and sales techniques, as well as advanced technical applications of photography, computer and Web tools. It also offers the most extensive and recent listings of Calls to Artists, including galleries reviewing portfolios, juried competitions, grants, fellowships, festivals, publishing opportunities and residencies.
Best described as “The Artist’s Guide to Making It,” Art Calendar is the only subscription-driven, business-oriented magazine published specifically for visual artists. Art Calendar enables professional artists to make a living doing what they love. Offering innovative ideas, along with all of the necessary tools to sell their work and further their careers, Art Calendar has established itself as the ultimate resource for visual artists.
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Meet the Art Calendar Team:
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Molly Crabapple likes to draw pretty pictures of mean people, and mean pictures of pretty ones. She draws for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Marvel Comics and Playgirl, as well as hanging in galleries across the country. Her work is a hyper-detailed, Victorian-inspired take on love, malice, and artifice- in other words, the stuff that makes New York tick. She also runs Dr. Sketchy's Anti-Art School, a burlesque life drawing session with nearly fifty branches around the world. In her free time, she likes coffee. See more at www.mollycrabapple.com and www.drsketchy.com.
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Steve Meltzer is an award-winning photojournalist living and working in the Pacific Northwest. His work has appeared in publications around the world, and he has had gallery exhibitions of his work in the U.S. and in France. For more than 30 years Steve has photographed art for artists and craftspeople around the nation. In June of 2007, Steve's latest book, Photographing Arts, Crafts & Collectibles (Lark Books 2007), was released and a second book, Capture The Light, is due out this fall.
In 1977, Steve created West Stock, the first photography agency to sell photos online and on CD-ROMs.
Steve studied photography with photographers Cornell Capa, Roman Vishniac, Duane Michaels and Oliver Gagliani.
Web: www.stevefotos.com
E-mail: stevefotos@cs.com
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Residing most of her life in coastal communities, Annie Strack developed a passion for painting seascapes and earned a reputation as a leading figure in the field of contemporary maritime art. She’s an Official Authorized Artist for the U.S. Coast Guard, and earned Signature Membership in five artist societies. Her artwork has received hundreds of awards and hangs in more than 1,000 public, corporate, and private collections worldwide. She is a popular juror for art competitions, and is a much sought after lecturer and art demonstrator for numerous art organizations, civic groups and schools. She teaches workshops on painting, photography and art marketing. Annie draws experience from her former career in corporate management to build a successful art career, and she shares her knowledge of business and marketing in her articles.
Web site: www.AnnieStrackArt.blogspot.com |
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Fulltime artist Jack White is a seasoned veteran who has been in the trenches of art marketing for 38 years. Selling his first painting for $10, he climbed his way to the top, earning the title of Official Texas State Artist. He was also an Admiral in the Texas Navy. Nineteen years ago Jack taught his wife, Mikki Senkarik, to paint and using his marketing knowledge has helped her reach great heights in her career. For the past decade, Mr. White has written encouraging, helpful articles for Art Calendar, destroying myths, and revealing well-guarded marketing secrets.
He says, “So many professional artists are reluctant to help those on the way up for fear they will pass them. I saw that first hand on my way up. I decided if I ever reached any level of success I would freely give all I learned. I have tried to be true to my word. I am not a paid art coach, nor would I ever be one. It has been my experience, most who coach and consult have never walked the walk; therefore how can they talk the talk? If I can help I do.”
Mr. White has written six art marketing books that are available online at www.senkarik.com . The books teach things you never learned in art school and help dispel so many of the untruths artist have been taught by well meaning teachers and friends. For those of you interested in reading a turn page novel, Jack’s latest book Ten Years in Texas will be available in hardcopy through Amazon. Com and Borders.com February 2008. |
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Eric Maisel, Ph.D., is the author of more than 30 books, among them Creativity for Life, Fearless Creating, The Van Gogh Blues (a Books for a Better Life finalist), Ten Zen Seconds, The Creativity Book, Coaching the Artist Within (the first book on creativity coaching), Toxic Criticism, Affirmations for Artists, A Writer’s Paris and A Writer’s San Francisco.
Maisel holds Bachelor’s degrees in Philosophy and Psychology, Master's degrees in Creative Writing and Counseling, and a Doctorate in Counseling Psychology. He is a California-licensed marriage and family therapist, a creativity coach and trainer of creativity coaches, and columnist for Art Calendar magazine, provides regular segments for Art of the Song Creativity Radio, and hosts two shows on the Personal Life Media Network: The Joy of Living Creatively and Your Purpose-Centered Life. Dr. Maisel is widely regarded as America's foremost creativity coach and has taught thousands of creative and performing artists how to meet the challenges of the creative life.
Web site: http://www.ericmaisel.com
The Joy of Living Creatively: http://blogs.personallifemedia.com/creative/
Your Purpose-Centered Life: http://blogs.personallifemedia.com/purpose/
Contact: ericmaisel@hotmail.com
Newsletter: Creativitynewsletter-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
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Diana Moses Botkin is a wife, mother of five, and award-winning artist who enjoys painting a variety of subjects, from figurative to landscapes. An Oklahoma native, she now lives and works in north Idaho, where she stays busy with family chores, painting commissions, marketing her work, writing for Art Calendar magazine, and the Painting-a-Day movement. She says this about her Painting-a-Day blog, “Maybe I should call it ‘A Painting Every Other Day’. It’s often a challenge to keep up with all I do!”
Web site: www.DianaMosesBotkin.com
Painting-a-Day blog: http://DianaMosesBotkin.blogspot.com/
Diana is a member of Daily Painters: www.DailyPainters.com
View her LifeImages giclee gallery: www.DianaMosesBotkin.imagekind.com/lifeimages |
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Milon Townsend is the author of seven books, including Advanced Flameworking, Volume I, Making & Marketing Better Work, The Marketing Companion Workbook, Focus on Flamework, and Patriot Dreams, a contemplative volume in response to 9/11. He has also produced a series of videos, demonstrating the techniques that he has developed, making them available to other artists in his field. He is a regular contributor to five magazines, on the topics of art business, art technique and creativity.
He is a board member of The Arts Business Institute, a nonprofit organization that assists artists in acquiring the skills to succeed in their careers.
He has created works for Pres. George Bush (the elder), Arnold Palmer, and Cyrus Vance. Corporate clients include Bristol-Myers-Squibb, AT&T, Ford, & BusinessWeek magazine. His work has been featured on the covers of Omni and Aviation Week & Space Technology magazines.
He has taught at RIT’s School of American Crafts, at Urban Glass in NYC, been a visiting artist at RISD and is a regular teacher at The Studio at the Corning Museum. He presents classes and workshops around the country and around the world on an ongoing basis. Milon works with a loosely configured team of skilled glass artists, who are an integral part of the creation of his pieces. He lives and works just outside a small village near Rochester, New York, with his wife Kiyoko and their son Timo.
E-mail: milon@rochester.rr.com
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Paul Dorrell founded Leopold Gallery in 1991, in Kansas City. Prior to that, he worked as Director's Assistant at the Hill-Stead Museum of French Impressionism in Farmington, Connecticut.
As an art consultant, Dorrell's clients include Warner Brothers, H&R Block, the National D-Day Memorial, the Mayo Clinic, and scores of private, civic and corporate collectors. He consults with clients on a daily basis, both those seeking paintings and sculpture, and has helped guide many artists toward successful careers. He has also consulted on dozens of monumental installations, from Washington to Los Angeles.
Dorrell is the author of the acclaimed guidebook for artists, Living the Artist's Life. This straightforward and often amusing work instructs on how to assemble a viable career in the visual arts. Visit his blog at www.PaulDorrell.com . |
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Deborah Rubin has been making a living from her art for 30 years, and has shown her work in galleries and exhibitions throughout the United States. Her work is in many public and private collections. A watercolor teacher who gives workshops and small private group lessons, she also has been in juried art shows, been part of local PBS art fundraisers, and given lectures at museums and art organizations. She now includes writing in her art repertoire. Ms. Rubin received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana and did graduate work at the University of Minnesota.
E-mail: DeborahRubin@comcast.net
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Contributing writer and communications consultant Ligaya Figueras has been an independent publishing professional since 2000, Ligaya specializes in business writing, marketing and media relations for visual and performance artists, writers, nonprofit organizations and specialty service providers. Her business management and lifestyle articles have been featured in numerous magazines and newspapers including the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The Writer, Silent Sports, and publications by the American Society of Cinematographers, the U.S. Soccer Foundation and Rails-to-Trails Conservancy.
When she’s not writing or scouring the art world in search of talented professional artists, Ligaya indulges her passion for food as a vegetable gardener, berry forager and food columnist for Sauce magazine. She lives in St. Louis, Missouri with her husband and two sons.
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A journalist for more than 30 years, Ted Knutson has freelanced for The Chicago Tribune, The Washington Post and dozens of specialized publications, writing both feature and news stories on a variety of topics. Knutson earned a Master of Arts degree in Public Affairs Reporting from the University of Illinois-Springfield and a Bachelor of Science degree in Journalism from Northern Illinois University. He resides in Washington, D.C.
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Gay Jervey is a freelance writer and consultant who lives in Baltimore. Over the years, she has been a staff writer and editor at Advertising Age, The American Lawyer and Brill’s Content magazine. She has also been a contributing writer for Money and Inc. She has written extensively for such other publications as The New York Times, Business Week, Fortune Small Business, Reader’s Digest, Good Housekeeping, Working Mother, More, CFO, Financial Planning Magazine and The M & A Journal. She also currently consults with several marketing and public relations companies, advertising agencies and law firms. |
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Steve Yahn has reported on the arts for 30 years. Mr. Yahn served as publisher of The Collector-Investor, a national magazine published by Crain Communication, Inc. covering the arts, antiques and collectibles.
Prior to that, he was the editor of Crain’s American Collector. Mr. Yahn has written about the arts for The Wall Street Journal and Risk & Insurance magazine.He received a Bachelor’s of Science degree from the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana, where he worked on a campus arts publication.
Mr. Yahn also served as Editor of Advertising Age and Crain's Chicago Business, and Business Editor of the New York Daily News. E-mail: yahninus@yahoo.com
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Kim Hall is a Florida artist and writer who serves as Art Calendar's Editor. After earning her bachelor's degree in Art from the University of Central Florida, she went on to study residential design, and completed graduate work in arts management. She worked as a freelance artist and writer, and served as the editor of the Celebration Independent Newspaper in Celebration, Fla., before coming to Art Calendar.
E-mail: khall@artcalendar.com
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