Monthly Archives: January 2012

Coming Soon: Member Profiles

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Starting in February 2012, the new Hamilton Arts Council blog will include an ongoing series of Member Profiles that will celebrate the work of our member artists and organizations across all disciplines. Member Profiles will be posted here on a bi-weekly basis and will be scheduled wherever possible to ensure equal representation of the range of creative disciplines supported by the Hamilton Arts Council.

Members in good standing interested in being included in this recurring feature are invited to submit their responses to the following questions to project@artshamilton.ca – please note that the Hamilton Arts Council reserves the right to edit responses for spelling, grammar and clarity before posting your Member Profile to our blog.

1.a) Your Name:
b) Your Website URL (optional):

2. Tell us about your creative practice:

3. What motivates you to live and work in Hamilton?

4. What have you seen or experienced in Hamilton lately that has inspired you?

5. What are you working on right now? Which upcoming project are you most excited about?

In addition to your written responses, members may include up to three images, video and/or audio components as part of their profile in any combination desired (for example, three images, one image and two videos, two audio and one video) provided the total number of images, video and audio is no greater than three.

Please note the following criteria before sending your materials:

Images: File size not to exceed 1MB, 72dpi resolution. Please include captioning information of images depicting visual art, fine craft, etc.

Video: Links to video posted online with embed coding enabled (via YouTube and Vimeo for example) is preferred; otherwise, video files sent for upload cannot exceed 2MB.

Audio: Links to audio posted online with embed coding enabled (via Soundcloud for example) is preferred; otherwise, audio files sent for upload cannot exceed 2MB.

There is no deadline for this call but priority within our posting schedule will be on a first-come first-served basis. Please send your responses to the questionnaire, images and links to program@artshamilton.ca.

Call for Contributors

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The Hamilton Arts Council is inviting expressions of interest from all creative disciplines to contribute to the Hamilton Arts Council Blog. Starting in February 2012, these pages will feature a range of topics relevant to the arts in the Hamilton region, creating opportunities to promote and discuss the work of Hamilton artists.

At this time, we are particularly interested in receiving proposals for the following:
- reviews of exhibitions, events and performances in the Hamilton region
- behind-the-scenes experiences that shed light on the creative process
- professional development advice for artists (e.g. portfolio preparation, how to audition, etc.)

Writers are asked to submit a brief proposal of their intended topic as well as two writing samples as either Word/PDF attachments or links to work published online to stephen@hamiltonartscouncil.ca. Please note that writers are asked to contribute on a voluntary basis as we are not yet able to pay writers.

For questions and comments, please contact Stephen Near, Program Director, at stephen@hamiltonartscouncil.ca.

 

Out with the old…

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As 2012 gets underway, the Hamilton Arts Council has been working busily behind the scenes to lay the groundwork for some exciting new changes to improve our ability to serve and promote the many artists and organizations working to make Hamilton the brilliant creative city that it is. One such change coming soon will be hitting this blog in particular – what was previously a means to promote the artists of our Hamilton Club auction back in November will grow to cover a far wider range of topics relevant to Hamilton’s cultural community, so be sure to watch this space for new developments in the coming weeks!

In the process of preparing for this new direction, however, it has come to our attention that many of the latter Artist Preview posts we created leading up to the auction are no longer archived on this blog. Our tech support monkey attributes this to an event he refers to as the “Great Server Migration” but the bottom line remains that these posts are now irretrievably lost to the digital ether.

William Blair Bruce, The Phantom Hunter 1888

An apt metaphor – William Blair Bruce, The Phantom Hunter. 1888, oil on canvas. Collection of the Art Gallery of Hamilton.

Regardless of this loss, we will be moving forward in the security of our shiny new server to send a greater diversity of content your way, from advocacy to member profiles to news on all our upcoming events and initiatives. Suggestions for articles are, of course, more than welcome – drop us a line at development@artshamilton.ca with your thoughts.