VAI Learning & Events
Webinar: Digital Marketing for Artists
Social Media is full of creative opportunities: networking, sales, and developing new audiences. Promoting work online can be done effectively when the message is right. In this one hour webinar communications specialist, Emma Dwyer talks about digital marketing for creative practices. The basic tools of how to best communicate your practice to your audiences through social media and other online platforms will be covered.
Included in the webinar are three key areas:
- Identifying your brand
- Reaching your audience
- Social media dos and don’ts
BIOGRAPHY
Emma Dwyer is all about arts and culture. She promotes creatives, artists and small businesses and shows her clients how to make the most of their online presence. Alongside a healthy obsession with the internet, Emma loves writing and is regularly published in magazines and arts publications.
She has held roles in Dublin Contemporary 2011, mother’s tankstation, Irish Architecture Foundation, Mermaid County Wicklow Arts Centre and most recently as Communications Manager with EVA International. Emma is a regular contributor to Image Interiors and Living Magazine and has recently contributed to Paper Visual Art, ‘One Here Now: The Brian O’Doherty / Patrick Ireland Project, Architecture Ireland, and Response to a Request. Emma has in the past edited various independent art publications and a community newspaper.
Clinics: 1-on-1 Clinics with the tutor also available for artists based in Louth. Eight places available, free to attend. Book here.
WEBINARS and ONLINE EVENTS: We use Zoom to host our online events. The following text should be followed and tested before registering for a Cafe or Help Desk Event. Zoom has an excellent Help Desk service if you are experiencing problems.
You will be emailed a link to the event in the confirmation email you receive after you have registered.
This Webinar is presented in association with Creative Spark.
Venue: Online
Starts: Tue Mar 23 2021, 11:00 GMT
Ends: Tue Mar 23 2021, 12:00 GMT
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Do you have an area in your practice you need help with or would just like some advice on where to go next?
Artists can book a Help Desk session that will be held online. These Help Desks will be free of charge for Members and Non Members for the duration of the current crisis.
Help Desks can be on any topic related to your practice or about general advice on supports available to you at this time.
Feel free to send on some information to us to make the most of your session, such as images of your work, exhibition proposals, links to website, or any applications you are currently working on that you would like a second opinion on.
We will contact you in advance of the meeting with a link to the Zoom meeting and your scheduled time. If you would prefer talk over the phone or via Skype let us know.
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Book a Help Desk with Shelly McDonnell our Communications and Advocacy Officer.
Artists can book in for a 20 minute one-to-one appointment to discuss any aspects of their professional careers.
Topics we cover can include:
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- Funding applications
- Proposals
- Social welfare
- Artist statements, bios and CVs
- Signposting to relevant arts organisations and contacts
- Strategic planning
- Tax and finance
- Website and social media
- Networking
Venue: Online
Starts: Fri Mar 12 2021, 10:00 GMT
Ends: Fri Mar 12 2021, 13:00 GMT
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What does a peer critique session look like?
Having somebody to talk to; removing the sense of being in it on your own; getting constructive advice and feedback that goes beyond friends telling you “It’s great” helps you to push your work further. VAI Peer Reviews are designed to do just that! To allow you to talk with a wider audience in a friendly atmosphere, have a good conversation about it, and gain advice from leading curators/artists from around the world.
What can I expect?
This two-part peer critique will take place on two Thursdays with four artists presenting in each session. Across the two sessions, eight artists in total will share their work with the rest of the group. Participants would need to be available for both sessions to allow for presentation and critique. This is a platform for artists to receive feedback and the chance to generate a discussion around your work.
Session one: Thursday 4th March, 10am-12pm
Session two: Thursday 11th March, 10am-12pm
This event will be facilitated by Laura McCafferty, Public Programmes Curator at CCA Derry~Londonderry.
WEBINARS and ONLINE EVENTS: We use Zoom to host our online events. The following text should be followed and tested before registering for a Cafe or Help Desk Event. Zoom has an excellent Help Desk service if you are experiencing problems.
You will be emailed a link to the event in the confirmation email you receive after you have registered.
This Webinar is presented in association with Creative Spark.
Venue: Online
Starts: Thu Mar 4 2021, 10:00 GMT
Ends: Thu Mar 11 2021, 12:00 GMT
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Photograph your artwork, using your smartphone.
Webinar by Tim Durham.
While we know that a dedicated camera is the best tool for photographing your work, a smartphone is often the only modern camera available to you. This webinar will give you a methodical step-by-step workflow to getting very best out of your phone camera.
What is covered:
- Where and how to set up your artwork
- How to use the camera settings on your phone
- Accessories to help make a difference e.g. tripod, smartphone clamp for tripod, white balance grey card
Please have a fully charged phone, have a charging cable to hand and ensure you have enough spare memory to take a few pictures. Tim would suggest you also have an artwork set up to practice on directly after the webinar.
WEBINARS and ONLINE EVENTS: We use Zoom to host our online events. The following text should be followed and tested before registering for a Cafe or Help Desk Event. Zoom has an excellent Help Desk service if you are experiencing problems.
You will be emailed a link to the event in the confirmation email you receive after you have registered.
This event is held in partnership with Kildare County Council Arts Office.
Venue: Online
Starts: Wed Mar 3 2021, 11:00 GMT
Ends: Wed Mar 3 2021, 12:00 GMT
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Clinics: 1-on-1 Clinics with the tutor also available for artists based in Wexford. Eight places available, free to attend. Book here.
WEBINARS and ONLINE EVENTS: We use Zoom to host our online events. The following text should be followed and tested before registering for a Cafe or Help Desk Event. Zoom has an excellent Help Desk service if you are experiencing problems.
You will be emailed a link to the event in the confirmation email you receive after you have registered.
What does a peer critique session look like?
Having somebody to talk to; removing the sense of being in it on your own; getting constructive advice and feedback that goes beyond friends telling you “It’s great” helps you to push your work further. VAI Peer Reviews are designed to do just that! To allow you to talk with a wider audience in a friendly atmosphere, have a good conversation about it, and gain advice from leading curators/artists from around the world.
What can I expect?
This two-part peer critique will take place on two Thursdays with four artists presenting in each session. Across the two sessions, eight artists in total will share their work with the rest of the group. Participants would need to be available for both sessions to allow for presentation and critique. This is a platform for artists to receive feedback and the chance to generate a discussion around your work.
Session one: Thursday 18th Feburary, 10am-12pm
Session two: Thursday 25th February, 10am-12pm
This event will be facilitated by Laura McCafferty, Public Programmes Curator at CCA Derry~Londonderry.
Register Now!
WEBINARS and ONLINE EVENTS: We use Zoom to host our online events. The following text should be followed and tested before registering for a Cafe or Help Desk Event. Zoom has an excellent Help Desk service if you are experiencing problems.
You will be emailed a link to the event in the confirmation email you receive after you have registered.
This event is held in partnership with South Dublin County Council Arts Office.
Venue: Online
Starts: Thu Feb 18 2021, 10:00 GMT
Ends: Thu Feb 25 2021, 12:00 GMT
This Visual Artists’ Café will put our Co. Kilkenny based members in the spotlight in a ‘show & tell’ format.
Featured will be 6 artists giving 6 different snapshots of the Kilkenny based Visual Artist in 2020 and beyond; work, motivations, challenges and acclimation. What we experienced. What we learned.
We hope you can join us from your home or studio. Anyone who has attended one of our Visual Artist Cafés around the country in the past will know that the events are informal and all centred around creating a space to share information. Our Show & Tell Café will be no different – we will have six artists sharing their work & experience with you and a chance for you to ask them questions about their practice.
Please do join us, with everything that’s going on this will be a chance for us to connect with you and find out how you are getting on and what your needs are.
This Visual Artists Café online will feature:
Show & Tell
The purpose of Show & Tell is to allow artists to present work or concepts to each other in an informal atmosphere. The events are also intended to provide the wider general audience with an inside view of artistic practice. A maximum of 6 artists will present as part of the Show & Tell over the course of the day.
Free for Members
WEBINARS and ONLINE EVENTS: We use Zoom to host our online events. The following text should be followed and tested before registering for a Cafe or Help Desk Event. Zoom has an excellent Help Desk service if you are experiencing problems.
You will be emailed a link to the event in the confirmation email you receive after you have registered.
This event is held in partnership with Kilkenny County Council Arts Office.
Venue: Online
Starts: Tue Feb 16 2021, 15:00 GMT
Ends: Tue Feb 16 2021, 16:30 GMT
Register Now!
Do you have an area in your practice you need help with or would just like some advice on where to go next?
Artists can book a Help Desk session that will be held online. These Help Desks will be free of charge for Members and Non Members for the duration of the current crisis.
Help Desks can be on any topic related to your practice or about general advice on supports available to you at this time.
Feel free to send on some information to us to make the most of your session, such as images of your work, exhibition proposals, links to website, or any applications you are currently working on that you would like a second opinion on.
We will contact you in advance of the meeting with a link to the Zoom meeting and your scheduled time. If you would prefer talk over the phone or via Skype let us know.
Book a Help Desk with Rob Hilken our Northern Ireland Manager.
Artists can book in for a 20 minute one-to-one appointment to discuss any aspects of their professional careers.
Topics we cover can include:
-
- Funding applications
- Proposals
- Social welfare
- Artist statements, bios and CVs
- Signposting to relevant arts organisations and contacts
- Strategic planning
- Tax and finance
- Website and social media
- Networking
Venue: Online
Starts: Wed Feb 24 2021, 14:00 GMT
Ends: Wed Feb 24 2021, 17:00 GMT
Register Now!
It is extremely beneficial for artists to have their work seen by curators. Outside of the potential for exhibitions, there is also the valuable opportunity to engage in a critical discussion of their practice.
The webinar will give you an insight into how curators may engage with your work and interpret it differently to your expectations. You will gain an understanding into the role of a curator and their processes that will better equip you to identify curators you would like to work with and how you might approach them.
The curator may introduce the artist to other avenues of thought, and on a more practical level to information on opportunities outside of your area.
Brendan Fox is an independent curator, artist, and writer. He has curated the work of hundreds of Irish and international artists in a broad spectrum of settings. He was project co-curator at Nag Gallery, Dublin, resident curator at Talbot Gallery, Dublin and is the Co-founder, Director/Curator of Foundation Arts Festival in association with the Irish Museum of Modern Art. He has devised numerous gallery and offsite exhibitions and has curated from the national collection at IMMA, Dublin. He has been the invited curator at Limerick School of Art and Design and the National College of Art and Design where he facilitated with both B.A. and M.A. students.
Fox has allocated funding and awards to artists and artist-led projects through his Foundation Awards initiative in association with Offaly County Council and the National Arts Council of Ireland. He has facilitated workshops with the RHA, Goethe Institute, NCAD, VTOS Adult Education, LSAD, Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, UCD and Trinity College Dublin with Ph.D. students at The Innovation Academy. He is currently devising exhibitions for his upcoming 2020 project as part of his MA in Art in the Contemporary World at NCAD.
This webinar is held in partnership with Wexford Co. Council Arts Office.
Wednesday 17 February, 11am to 12pm
Wexford – based artist – Free
VAI Member €5
Non Member / General Public €10
Clinics: 1-on-1 Clinics with the tutor also available for artists based in Wexford. Eight places available, free to attend. Book here.
WEBINARS and ONLINE EVENTS: We use Zoom to host our online events. The following text should be followed and tested before registering for a Cafe or Help Desk Event. Zoom has an excellent Help Desk service if you are experiencing problems.
You will be emailed a link to the event in the confirmation email you receive after you have registered.
Visual Artists Ireland Café – Smithfield Commission
As part of the Sculpture Dublin public engagement programme, Visual Artists Ireland is organising a series of cafés that bring together artists, arts organisations and audiences, and connect them with local projects.
This Café introduces Smithfield Square Lower and the immediate vicinity of the new sculpture commission. The awarded artist will be presented at the event.
You will hear artists give insight into their working practices, learn about work they may be currently developing in their studios, and hear how research plays an integral role in developing new sculpture.
You will hear experienced arts professionals discuss the roles they play in supporting artists and in how sculpture is experienced by audiences.
We will also be hearing from local projects and initiatives that are taking place in the locality of the commission sites and engaging in discussion about what impact the sculpture commissions will have in the area.
This event is held in partnership with Sculpture Dublin
23 February 2021, 3pm to 4.30pm.
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