AFAC 2011 Conference and Art Show for visual artists

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Kerry

Our 3rd annual conference for visual artists, 5-6th March with Art Show from 5-12th March, 2011 will be held at Metro Hall in downtown Toronto, Canada. Here's the agenda "at a glance":

Saturday March 5th, 2011

Main Floor Rotunda: Registration Opens Artists Deliver Paintings for Art Show
Rotunda: Opening Remarks by Sheila J. Mitchell, Executive Director, Art For All Canada, Inc.
+ SPECIAL Publicity EVENT in Rotunda - a "World's First" - all artists attending this conference are eligible to participate!
Alla prima Painting Workshop:* A Shorthand Approach to Portraits from Life by Juan Martinez
Public Relations and Community Volunteerism: The Other 50% of a Successful Career by Ben Benedict
The Potential of Pastel by Ruth Rodgers
Art Has Many Colours - Pigment & Materials by Ann Kruzelecky
My Magic Finger by Anne Abbott
Looking for Light - The Evolution of an Image by Pasquale Marco Veltri
Contemporary Expressive Drawing – or is it Painting? by Gwen Tooth

12:00 -1:00 Room 308 Free Buffet Lunch, Prize Giveaways and Sponsor Exhibits

Marketing yourself and your artwork by Suzie Boudreau
The Business of Art by Cristian S. Aluas
The Agony and the Ecstacy of the Commissioning Process by Andrew Benyei
Oil Painting in the 21st Century by Doug Purdon (sponsored by Winsor & Newton)
Mixing Any Colour in Acrylics by Peter John Reid (sponsored by Tri-Art)
Power Carving Community Story by Dorsey James
Improve Your Creativity: attend this Blissful Sleep Workshop by Donene Lashbrook

Sunday March 6th, 2011
Opening Remarks by Sheila J. Mitchell, Executive Director, Art For All Canada, Inc.
High Realist Painting with Acrylics by Doug Purdon (sponsored by Winsor & Newton)
How to be a successful Fine Artist by Rea Kelly
Art as an Instrument of Healing by Herbert Pryke
Creating Raku Murals by Barbara Van Sickle
Japanese Brushstroke Painting - The Ink Sings & the Brush Dances by Roslyn Levin
Building your career as an Artist Entrepreneur by Lisa Rotenberg
Encaustic painting demo by Kathryn Bevier (sponsored by Enkaustikos Wax Supplies)

12:00-1:00 Room 308 Free Buffet Lunch, Prize Giveaways and Sponsor Exhibits

How to use Corel Painter Software and Tablet to Design your Work of Art by Joanna Turlej
Marketing Art Online by Allen Class
Photographing your art Workshop by Kevin Backs
Living with clay demonstration: Wheel thrown and altered clay by Brenda Sullivan
Self Expression Through Abstract Art by Janice Brown
Texturing Canvas and Painting in the New Acrylic Metallics by Valerie Kent
Painting in the Wild by Beverley Richardson

The full agenda (subject to change without notice) is on our web site and I think you'll be impressed with the terrific range of subjects and speakers that we have assembled to help visual artists develop their skills and market their works.

We've added yet more presentations, demos and workshops so there is usually a choice of 4 different sessions to attend at any one time (3 last year). At the same time we've kept the conference fees the same as last year.

You save money if you register in January 2011.

If you are one of the first 100 artists to register we will include you in a unique publicity event - a "World's First" - that will promote you and your work to an even wider audience. I'll be able to let you have more news later but for now it must remain "hush, hush".

Please do share this email with any artists you know who could be interested, or ask them to join our e-mail list (at our web site) or get in touch with me. Looking forward to seeing you in just 2 months.

Yours in art,

Sheila J. Mitchell
Executive Director, Art For All Canada
Tel: (416)-756-3221
sheila@artforallcanada.org

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