See below for upcoming professional development workshops, in partnership with Visual Artists Ireland (VAI).
* Managing Your Accounts
* Working with Digital Images
* Documenting Your Work
* Self-Promotion for ‘Portfolio Career’ Creatives
Managing Your Accounts
Tuesday 4th September (10:30am – 15:30pm)
In partnership with the Crafts Council of Ireland (CCoI) this session is open to visual artists and members of CCoI. Participants will come away from this workshop with practical tools for better financial management including an understanding of cash flow, keeping accounts and how best to integrate budgeting and finance into the day-to-day management of their practice. This workshop has been designed specifically to be relevant to the financial realities faced by artists.
Location: Visual Artists Ireland, 7 – 9 Dame Court, Dublin 2
Cost: €80/€40 VAI Members.
Follow link to register: http://visualartists.ie/education-2/current-programme/?ee=87
Working with Digital Images with Hugh McElveen
Wednesday 5th September (10.30am – 16.30pm)
In partnership with the Crafts Council of Ireland (CCoI) this session is open to visual artists and members of CCoI.
A hands on workshop looking at best practice for the use and storage of digital files, post-production, repurposing images for different media requirements and safe archiving digital information and prints.
Location: Visual Artists Ireland, Dame Court, Dublin 2
Cost: €70 / €35 (VAI Members)
10 Places
Follow link to register: http://visualartists.ie/education-2/current-programme/?ee=86
Documenting Your Work with Tim Durham
Wednesday 12th September (10:00am – 17:00pm)
In partnership with the Crafts Council of Ireland (CCoI) this session is open to visual artists and members of CCoI.
For most of the situations in which you present images of your work whether: submitting proposals, portfolios of work for submission to galleries, websites, catalogues, press releases for magazines and newspapers, this workshop will assist you in a methodical step-by-step process to obtain the best possible results with your digital compact camera or digital SLR. This session is about getting the very best quality results from the equipment you have.
Location: Visual Artists Ireland, Central Hotel Chambers.
Cost: €80/€40 VAI Members CCoI
10 Places
Follow link to register: http://visualartists.ie/education-2/current-programme/?ee=77
Self-Promotion for ‘Portfolio Career’ Creatives with Mary Carty
Tuesday 18th September 2012 (10:30-15:30)
In partnership with the Crafts Council of Ireland (CCoI), this session is open to visual artists and members of CCoI.
Now that public resources and work opportunities are increasingly thin on the ground how can artists monetise and promote a variety of creative skills and practices.
Location: Visual Artists Ireland, Dame Court, Dublin 2
Cost: €80 / €40 (VAI Members)
10 Places
Follow link to register: http://visualartists.ie/education-2/current-programme/?ee=92
For further Republic of Ireland events see: http://visualartists.ie/education-2/current-programme/
Monica Flynn / Professional Development Officer
Visual Artists Ireland
Central Hotel Chambers, 7/9 Dame Court, Dublin 2
T: +353 (0)1 672 9488
E: monica@visualartists.ie
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