Sunday, Dec. 6, 2009, 10 am to Noon at EWI – Come celebrate some old-fashioned ideas very relevant in today’s world, like listening to other people’s stories and learning from their experiences. Enjoy making a one-of-a-kind storybook with your own hands as a special gift for someone; and sitting down with a hot cup of Chai and sharing stories and laughter. (more…)
July 23, noon-1:15pm – 7 Winning Strategies to Market Your Art, Generate More Clients and Grow Your Business in Tough Economic Times with Marga Fripp, Plein Air Easton, Talbot County Free Library, 100 W. Dover St., Easton, MD, FREE. Take a break from the mid-day sun and join Marga Fripp, Art Marketing Coach for a dynamic seminar of art marketing strategies and practical approaches to success as an artist. More
Join in on Saturday, June 27, 3-6 pm at Convergence Gallery in Alexandria, VA to support international women artists as they begin their journeys as leaders, art educators and entrepreneurs. Empowered Women International presents Burning Desires, a mixed media exhibition, an artists’ graduation reception and a musical program featuring 11 immigrant, refugee and American-born women artists, all graduates of EWI’s Art Entrepreneur Training for Success. Artists Reception and Graduation Celebration starts at 4 pm.
Exhibition runs June 4th through July 30th at Convergence, our partner organization. Free of Charge. RSVP Required
Marga Fripp, Art Marketing Coach and EWI president was invited to talk about the business of art at Artomatic. Over 50 artists attended the Artomatic panel on The Art of Doing Business organized and moderated by Jody Walsh, Artist and Marketing Expert. Panelists included Elyse Harrison of the Neptune Gallery, Trudy Van Dyke: Independent Curator, Marga Fripp, Art Marketing Coach and Nancy Prager, WALA Volunteer Attorney.
After the talk I took a tour of Artomatic and I was very impressed and inspired to see so many of the artists we coached and trained being featured at Artomatic: Stephanie Bianco, Edith Graciela Sanabria, Irina Avilova, Sheldon Reiffenstein, Caren Quinn among many others.
Kudos to Caren Quinn for being was selected as Michael Janis: Artomatic Top 10
May 30, 2009 – Charlene McClelland, Director of Retail, and Betty Scott, Education Program Coordinator at Music Center at Strathmore hosted a group of 10 women artists of the EWI for a visit of the Strathmore Mansion and the Music Center.
EWI Women Artists and Our Supporters at Strathmore
Betty Scott, Charlene McClelland and EWI Artist May Al-Souz
Outside in the beautiful Mansion's Garden at Strathmore
Thank you to both Charlene and Betty for giving our students such an extraordinary opportunity to learn first hand how to break into the arts market.
