Herring Island Environmental Sculpture Park. 02/11/2010
 Herring Island Environmental Sculpture Park From: Sat, 9 Jan 2010 To: Sun, 18 Apr 2010 Time: 12:00 PM - 4:45 PM Melway Ref: 2M C2 Bookings Required: no Cost: Adult $2.00 Family $5.00 Further Information: Jenny Rickards http://home.vicnet.net.au/~hisaf/ 0418 971 897 Tucked away on the Yarra River in Toorak, Herring Island is a retreat for people from the bustle of the city just three kilometres away. Accessible only by boat, Herring island is a haven for Australia’s great wildlife too. On the parkland is Herring Island Gallery. The gallery is a converted scout hall - the fireplace and the marks on the floor are the give-away signs! Curator Maudie Palmer commissions artists to create sculptures from natural materials such as stone, earth and wood. The sculptures reflect the island's unique and tranquil setting and appear to be part of the landscape. A number of exhibitions are being held at the gallery over Summer. They include: * Ceramics Victoria (from 9 to 26 January 2010) * Association of Sculptors of Victoria (from 30 January to 14 February) * Contemporary Art Society of Victoria (from 20 February to 8 March) * Koori Heritage Trust (from 13 to 28 March) * Photography Studies College Melbourne (from 3 April to 18 April). Please join us on the island to view the exhibition. The exhibition is open from 12 noon to 4:45pm each day. Adults are $2. Children under 10 and those with a concession card are free and families are $5. Parks Victoria provides access to Herring Island via a punt (ferry) from Como Landing (Melway 2M C3). This operates from 11:30 am to 5 pm on weekends and public holidays. The punt costs $2 per adult. Guided Activities 1. Canoeing / Kayaking (B3) Volunteers 1. Friends of Herring Island Publications Links to other websites1. Sculpture Gardens/Art Brochures1. A new guide to Victoria's Parks: Parks Discovery Park Notes / Maps1. Herring Island Environmental Sculpture Park - Visitor Guide 2. Herring Island - The Sculptures Books & DVDs1. Victoria's National Parks 2. Melbourne's Great Outdoors Permits & Licences1. Herring Island - Application for an Activity/Function Victoria's Heritage Stories1. Herring Island - The Island of Dreams Add Comment Blog Writers Directory of Links 02/09/2010
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 Postcards, Gift Cards and Fridgemagnets from my original art work. They have arrived. I have been to the printers and picked up the postcards, small business card size fridge magnets and the small gift cards I had made from the original pastel artwork of the two young brothers, playing in the sand. The first to receive some will be the boy’s mum J and a good friend. J. Anyone who survives my dyslectic talk, becomes my good friend, lol, last night I told her someone was armless, when I meant harmless, and I told her I would test her, when I meant I would trust her. Lol, J somehow my friendships survive my dyslectic errors and my waffles. These young boys, remind me of my own daughters playing in the sand, back when I was working for practical purposes, mostly with their needs in mind, the family home, term life insurance, the children’s education. It is wonderful to be a senior, still blessed with the memory of my children when they were young, but with none of the responsibility. I can paint for the love of it these days and not concern myself, about the sale or need to earn an income from my art, as I once had to. Mum of two beautiful brothers, J, your parcel will be off in the mail soon. Thank you for providing the great image for me to paint.  Working in pastel, on the original. Artist In Schools Program 02/08/2010
 Artists; Have you ever considered applying for an artist in schools program? One of my most enjoyable years was spent as an artist in School, guding 400 primary school age children through the production of a mural of Jells Park, in Victoria. The project was jointly funded and I was paid a teachers rate plus the cost of my art materials. I found it a wonderful experience. Artists in Schools provides opportunities for professional artists to work with young people in Victorian primary and secondary schools. Schools engage an artist for up to 20 days to work with students and teachers on a creative project, which may be in any art form. Eligibility Applications are accepted from Victorian schools, including primary, secondary, government and non-government schools, including schools for students with special needs. If a school received Artists in Schools funding for 2010, 2009 or 2008, it is ineligible to apply for funding for 2011. The Artist Artists may work in any art form or combination of art forms, including literature, visual arts, performing arts and new media. The artist must be a practising professional artist who relates well to young people and communicates, discusses and demonstrates their art with ease. Performances or workshops that are identical, or very similar to those that the artist provides regularly in schools on a commercial basis will not be supported. The School An Artists in Schools project needs significant support from the school. The school needs to:
It takes approximately 11 weeks from the closing date until funding results are available. It is recommended that schools plan to commence projects in Terms 2, 3 or 4. Funds Available Grants of $6,500 are available for schools to engage an artist for up to 20 days. Two artists may work together on an Artists in Schools project but the total grant will remain at $6,500. In the 2009-2010 financial year 85 applications were received and 30 (35%) were funded. The total funds awarded was $195,000 with each recipient receiving $6,500. The program is a Department of Education and Early Childhood Development (DEECD) and Arts Victoria partnership with support from the Community Support Fund. Artists in Schools Information Sessions Artists in Schools Information Sessions are conducted each year. To get an insight into the program and application process, you can access a recording of the session that was held online prior to the 2009 funding round. This session was hosted in Elluminate, you can follow this link to view the recording. http://www.arts.vic.gov.au/content/Public/Funding_Programs/Education_Partnerships/Artists_in_Schools.aspx   216mm x 279mm Landscape Prints, from the Art of,Acclaimed Artist, Kathy Shell    Flower Prints by Kathy Shell. 02/07/2010
 216mm x 279mm Prints, from the Art of,Acclaimed Artist, Kathy Shell     Horse Art Prints by Kathy Shell, 02/06/2010
      A pastel portrait by artist Kathy Shell, from a photo, an example of turning an art form into a successsful service based business, attending to customers needs. You need to treat art as a business if your business is art. If you think that artists do not need to work, that it is all play and creating when you feel like it, then do everyone a favour and call it a hobby, don’t expect grants from public money, the world does not owe artists a living. Art is our choice and we should not be subsidised if we are unable to earn our living at it anymore than someone, should get, a grant to go and play golf all day instead of going to work. OK I have got that off my chest. Being a professional artist is going to involve very long hours of work and becoming multi skilled. I have known dozens of talented artists who cannot earn a living at art, because they have not grasped that we need to develop four different types of skills to succeed in the arts and indeed, most professions. 1. Talent We need the talent or skill to have something to sell. Develop this. Make it a lifetime commitment to be on an ongoing search for knowledge and learn from everything and anything you can, while not contravening the copyright of others, make sure you didn’t have a fool for a teacher, by insisting on being ‘self taught’. Yes, one can be self-guided, but expertise is learned from experts. 2. Public Relations skills.If you are not skilled in public relations, then learn these skills. It might be easier to employ someone to do the PR for you, but the truth of the matter is, that unless you have an income aside from your art, few artists are going to have the funds to pay for a good PR representative. So learn how to do this for yourself. 3. Business skills. It does not matter how well you create, paint or how good the items you have to sell are, nor how well you are able to market these, using your PR skills, if the business side of things breaks down and you make unwise choices accounting for and using the income you make. There needs to be a balance of all skills. 4. Diversify. Art is a non essential, item. If you look at how the stock market fluctuates, then realize that art is also going to fluctuate, only the fluctuation will be wider. No one, can tell you in advance what artistic skills might peak nor suffer in the next fluctuation. Take the example of the need to diversify, from what happened during the last big depression to my own artistic family, who all survived based on the actions of one family member, my mother, the only one who diversified her skills. My father the architect, rated at the time as one of the top 6 architects in Australia, had no essential service skills and was unemployed during the last depression. My uncle, one of Australia’s best musicians at the time, a man who during the peak of his career, left millions to charities due to the success of his career, had no other developed skill aside from his musicianship and he could not make enough money to provide a home for or feed his family during that depression as people would not pay for his, non essential service, skill. My mother, a dress designer, was able to diversify, from making high end fashion to designing clothing to fit people with deformity, then accept commissions to make military uniforms and her income as a young woman in her twenties, supported three families of six adults and three children, all because she was prepared to diversify her artistic skills when the need arose and not be too proud to take orders or work with heavy harsh on the hands, military materials. When I informed my family that I intended to be an artist, they were 100% behind my doing this, they never told me that ‘I would not be able to earn my living at the arts’, as many tell artists. They did however insist that I have diverse talents and essential skills. Develop varied and essential service skills and your integrity as an artist is protected and you have the financial stability you need as a base to develop a successful artistic life. Happy creating :-) Order DVD's and Books at DISCOUNTED prices. Click on Fishpond Image link below to browse. Goals!: How to Get Everything You Want - Faster Than You Ever Thought Possible  Another portrait commision by Kathy Shell, in artist's pastels, completed to a clients instructions, showing the combination of artistic talent, PR skills of working with the client and the business ability of marketing commissioned portaiture as a service. | Follow me on Facebook at @ Kathy Shell
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