ART 400 | Design our ART + ANIMALS t-shirt | Call for Volunteers

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What attendees are saying:

"I just wanted to thank you for the excellent support and advice today. I thoroughly enjoyed meeting you both, and I think your space is great as well. I feel that it was well worth my time and I look forward to talking with you again soon." L.A.

" I thought your sessions would be cookie-cutter but that I would still walk away with something usable. What a nice surprise to have had a session that was customized just for me and where I am in my career. Thank you!" J.B.

"It was great talking with you this morning. I so appreciate the input and recommendations for going forward to the next step with my art. It was great fun meeting someone new!" K.M.

One of the most frequent requests we've received over the past several years is for our assistance with portfolio reviews and recommendations along with career development guidance. Since artist career development is not part of current BECA programming, we've always recommended that emerging and early career artists and designers consult with their local and regional arts councils and arts commissions who sometimes offer the practical information being sought. This recommendation hasn't slowed down the number of incoming requests so we are establishing a short-term pilot program to address this need.

We've taken the most consistent requests and created the series, 'ART400 - The RnR Sessions'. The first session in this series has been created for individual artists and designers. The session is conducted by BECA Directors, Melissa Roberts and Kurt Schlough, and includes a review of existing art or design career goals and decision making processes along with a series of recommended actions steps toward establishing and achieving future goals. Each session will typically include a current portfolio review as well as a review of current goals and desired future goals along with any existing informational, marketing and outreach materials that the artist or designer currently utilizes. Future small group sessions are being developed but due to the individual focus of Session One, this first session is conducted either remotely from the individual artist or designer's location or in-person here in Albuquerque, NM in a one-to-one format. The current registration fee is $25 per one hour in-person or remote session. In-person Session times begin and end promptly to allow adequate accommodation of each registrant. (Information on remote Sessions is provided via email once Registration is completed.) for registration.

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Local, Regional, National and International Call to Artists + Designers:

Design our ART + ANIMALS t-shirt!

Winning design must be an .ai file but you may post a jpg or gif of your design directly to the ART + ANIMALS facebook Wall at: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Art-Animals/208571759169095 or you may to email a jpg or gif file (8x8 at 72dpi) to using the subject line 'ART+ANIMALS t-shirt'.

If your design is selected, you'll receive permanent online recognition and link on our BECA ICAD website as well as on our new online shop. The only other requirement is that the design must contain the text 'ART + ANIMALS' somewhere within the design.

Deadline to submit your design for consideration is July 20, 2011.

Be creative! Be original!

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Call for Volunteers: Local, Regional, National, International
- from our location or yours -

Volunteer with BECA whether you have 1 hour or 1 week to give

Volunteers make our work possible. We can't do it without your help. Volunteer Teams currently available are:

- Communications Team (on the ground and remotely - you may be located in any city around the world to be on this team!) - duties may include: blogging, emails, tweets, local phone calls from your area, print and online info. distribution, hosting local info. events for emerging artists + designers in your city, etc.

- Documentation Team - duties include documenting BECA projects and events via the use of video, cell phones, photography, writing, etc.

- Development Team (on the ground and remotely - you may be located in any city around the world to be on this team!) - duties revolve around securing fundraising assistance, in-kind donations and sponsorships.

- Graphic Design, Web Design and Web Development Team (remotely from any location) - duties include graphic design, website design + maintenance, upgrades, web, mobile and other application development.

Additional Volunteer Teams will be created as organizing continues.

If you are interested (we hope you are!) please to send us an email with the following information with the subject line 'volunteers': Your name and email, current resume/CV, dates/times you are available.

We look forward to working with you!!

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ART + ANIMALS is a new BECA initiative to combine arts and cultural programming with animal welfare (rescue, fostering, education and sanctuary if need be for the purposes of reducing the abuse and abandonment of animals and also reduce the euthanasia rates in shelters). Learn more at: http://www.becaicad.org/art--animals.php

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