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Artist Websites and Social Media

Artist Websites and Social Media

 

Artist Websites and Social Media
Virtual program
Thursday, April 25, 2024
5–7pm ET

When was the last time you updated your website? Do you have a professional mailing list? How do you engage your following on Instagram? In this digital age of SEO's and Explore pages, emerging artists have more access to self-promotion than ever. But with great power comes greater responsibility. Join PR experts Nathan Lucrisia, Director of Business Development (Threespot) and Mackenzie Spriggs, Founder and CEO (The Contemporary Creatives) for a crash course on how to make the most of your website and social media.


About Nathan Lucrisia

threespot.com
@threespot

Nathan Lucrisia is the Director of Business Development at Threespot. Nathan drives the agency’s growth by reaching out to new clients, engaging stakeholders, and building partnerships in the community. His background in marketing and business development, combined with a focus on technology, helps him define innovative solutions for clients in the social impact space.

Threespot is a Black woman-led digital strategy agency built to fight for socially conscious organizations. Founded in 1999, Threespot aims to interrupt the status quo and reshape how organizations think and talk about themselves. That’s translated into dynamic digital strategies, custom user experiences, and enlivened brands for the likes of the ACLU, Color of Change, and the National Park Service. As a Certified B Corp™, Threespot is committed to solving complex problems by bringing diverse perspectives and voices to the table and an empathetic ear to every conversation.


About Mackenzie Spriggs

contemporarycreatives.com
@thecontemporarycreatives

Mackenzie Spriggs is the Founder of The Contemporary Creatives®, a leading marketing agency in Washington, D.C. Mackenzie and her team specialize in crafting compelling campaigns that resonate with audiences and drive engagement through authentic storytelling and sustainable strategy. Clientele includes contemporary artists, art dealers, galleries, and leading art institutions. 

There was no marketing agency specifically tailored to directly serve independent artists until Contemporary Creatives came into existence in 2020. From a background entrenched in the gallery and museum world, Mackenzie observed the pressing need for independent artists to have access to digital marketing services and educational resources. Mackenzie spearheaded the launch of Contemporary Creatives and aimed to bridge the gap in the artistic space, empowering artists with the tools they need to achieve their professional goals with creativity and marketing precision. 

 

Pricing, Editioning, and Archiving Works on Paper

 
 
 

Pricing, Editioning, and Archiving Works on Paper
In-person
Thursday, April 4, 2024
5–7pm

Join us for a conversation on collecting works on paper, featuring artists Gail Shaw-Clemons and Cory Oberndorfer and collector Phillip Barlow. The panel will be moderated by artist and gallerist Mary Early.

How do you get started collecting original works of art? How do prints and other works on paper figure into a collection of original art? We are here to help! In partnership with the Washington Print Club, Hamiltonian Artists is hosting a panel discussion to address these very questions and more.

Image: Cory Oberndorfer, Ice Cream and Pops (after Bass), 2020, screen print on paper, edition of 30, 14 1/2 × 10 1/4 inches. Image courtesy of the Washington Print Club

 

How to Buy Art [Internal]

 

How to Buy Art
In-person
Monday, February 5, 2024
6–7pm ET

Kinetic members are invited to join Hamiltonian Artists for a panel discussion on how to buy art. Hamiltonian Artists’ executive director Lily Siegel will moderate the discussion of various approaches to the art market and building an art collection. Our panelists are as follows:

Brady Doty, Senior Director of Sales, David Zwirner, New York
Lauren Hilyard, Art Advisor and Appraiser, Hilyard Art Advisory, DC
Maria Sancho-Arroyo, Adjunct Faculty, Sotheby’s Institute of Art, New York

This first program is open to all levels of Kinetic members. Future programs of this kind are only open to the $250 level or above.

 

How to Give an Artist Talk [Internal]

 
 
 

How to Give an Artist Talk
Internal program
Thursday, January 25, 2024

Visiting artist Nekisha Durrett is offering an exclusive talk to share artist talk best practices. Each Hamiltonian Artists exhibition involves a corresponding public talk, and this program will be helpful for anyone looking to gain insight on artist talk preparation. There will be time set aside for a Q&A and an open forum conversation.

Nekisha Durrett (b. 1976 | Washington, DC) is a mixed-media artist who employs the visual language of mass media to bring forward histories that objects, places, and words embody, but are not often celebrated. Her expansive practice includes public art, social practice, installation, painting, sculpture and design. Through deep research and material investigation, she finds historical traces in the present that are filled with stories easily overlooked. Her work contemplates biases and the unreliability of memory, as information is filtered over time. Durrett illuminates individual and collective histories of Black life and imagination, addressing her own younger self and the stories she wished she had learned.

 

Artist Residencies and Grants

Artist Residencies and Grants

Hamiltonian Artists hosts Claire Huschle for an artist’s guide on applying for residency programs and project funding.

Documenting Your Artwork

Documenting Your Artwork

Whether you’re submitting an application, updating your artist website, or posting on your feed, understanding how to capture strong images of your artwork is essential. This workshop will cover best approaches to basic lighting, shooting, and editing—from phone cameras to DSLR cameras. Add this foundational skill to your toolbox this weekend with our step-by-step guide, followed by a demonstrative workshop. Bring a friend, a notepad, and your camera of choice!

Taxes Workshop

Taxes Workshop

 

Taxes for Artists
Virtual workshop
Saturday, October 23, 2021
11–12pm ET

Dunia Best Sinnreich will discuss the basic tax equation; self-employment tax; the estimated quarterly tax system; audit concerns for the working artist; and other tax issues relevant to artists, followed by a Q&A session.

About

Dunia Best Sinnreich is a musician, composer, and an enrolled agent (EA), designated by the US Treasury to represent taxpayers before the IRS. She became an EA when she saw a need for more tax representation in the arts community. An enrolled agent is authorized by the US Department of Treasury to assist taxpayers with tax compliance. Her clients are globetrotting, world-renowned independent artists of all stripes. As an artist and enrolled agent, Dunia is able to recognize and address many of the unique questions artists have about tax compliance. She can contact the IRS on her clients’ behalf and prepare taxes for people with multiple sources and types of income. She focuses on the needs of independent artists worldwide who are US taxpayers, leaving her clients free to focus on their art.

 

PLATFORM

PLATFORM

For the first season, now through the Presidential election on November 3, we invite artists, independent curators and organizers, organizations, and others to submit a proposal for a public program that specifically addresses racial justice, social justice movements and practices, collective action, and other conversations that intersect with the arts. This is not a call for artist talks or studio visits.

New Date! Funding Your Projects: Fiscal Sponsorship

New Date! Funding Your Projects: Fiscal Sponsorship

Due to popular demand, we will be hosting a repeat of last week's program.

Claire Huschle, founder and director of Scaffold, LLC, a project support firm for artists and arts organizations, will discuss ways to attract funding for individual artists through fiscal sponsorship and other ways to consider the financial viability of your artistic practice.

Hamiltonian Artists Fellowship Application Q&A Session

Hamiltonian Artists Fellowship Application Q&A Session

Hamiltonian staff, as well as, some current Fellows and Alumni will participate in this live Q&A session over Zoom. We are here to answer your questions as you apply for the Hamiltonian Artists Fellowship.

Funding Your Projects: Fiscal Sponsorship

Funding Your Projects: Fiscal Sponsorship

Claire Huschle, founder and director of Scaffold, LLC, a project support firm for artists and arts organizations, will discuss ways to attract funding for individual artists through fiscal sponsorship and other ways to consider the financial viability of your artistic practice.

2020 Fellowship Application Fee Fundraiser

2020 Fellowship Application Fee Fundraiser

This year, it will cost us approximately $6000 to run our open call for applications into Hamiltonian Artists Fellowship Program. Please consider making a donation to Hamiltonian Artists today. All monies received will go directly towards this process, allowing us to lower, or even eliminate, our application fee this year while still being able to provide quality programming and exhibition opportunities to our Fellows and the community.

Akea Brionne Brown Artist Talk

Akea Brionne Brown Artist Talk

Akea Brionne Brown Artist Talk

Thursday, March 5th
7 -pm
Hamiltonian: 1353 U Street, NW 
Open to all

JOIN US for an evening with Akea Brionne Brown, talking about her current solo show "A Brown Millennial" on Thursday, March 5, at 7pm.

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In her most autobiographical installation yet, Akea Brionne Brown builds A Brown Millennial with powerful photographic portraits infused with aesthetics of Americana, vast swaths of color rooted in history and culture, and interactive texts that challenge what is personal and political.

In her own words, this work is a reflection of Brown’s world and what it means to exist as a young, black, American woman in a time where everything feels uncertain. In response to both personal events and political systems, ìA Brown Millennial exists to invite viewers into the contemplations and worries that consume the artist. Breaking away from the flatness of the photographic plane, Brown creates an immersive environment using pop culture phenomena like Buzzfeed Privilege Quizzes and paper takeaways and invites the viewer to engage with what may be uncomfortable.

Images from the past are a window into the present. Brown uses found textiles and personal history to examine contemporary politics in her own eyes: ìI open up an honest dialogue about the topics that have been consuming my consciousness, specifically the contemporary state of African Americans and blacks throughout the continental United States. The installation is built with urgent simultaneousness that can only be described as the reality of any millennial grappling with these intersectional issues. Representation and beauty within an American context are taken on powerfully through her portraits transforming textiles and the body; the overwhelming effects of mass incarceration on the black community are explored vulnerably; the diminishing awareness of ancestral practices that were erased through slavery and the great migration are alluded to through cultural signifiers from her homes of New Orleans and New Mexico. The reality of privilege is unpacked elegantly, and real questions are asked of the viewer.


Akea_Headshot.jpg

Akea is a lens-based artist whose work investigates the implications of historical racial and social structures in relation to contemporary black life in America. With a particular focus on the ways in which history influences the contemporary cultural milieu of the American black middle class, she explores current political and social themes, as they relate to historical forms of oppression, discrimination, and segregation in American history.

Akea received her BFA (2018) from the Maryland Institute College of Art, in the dual degree program of Photography and Humanities. She is originally from New Orleans, Louisiana and is currently based in Baltimore, Maryland.

Click here to read more about Akea.


Documentary Film Screening and Q&A of "Strange Negotiations"

Documentary Film Screening and Q&A of "Strange Negotiations"

"Strange Negotiations" (runtime. 93 min) 
View the trailer here: https://strangenegotiationsfilm.com

After renouncing his long-held Christian beliefs and walking away from his critically-acclaimed band, Pedro the Lion, musician David Bazan retreated into a solitary life of touring solo, struggling to rebuild his worldview and career from the ground-up, and to support his family of four. Strange Negotiations finds David a decade into his journey, during which he has become a sort of reluctant prophet to Americans reeling from their country’s own crisis of faith highlighted during the 2016 presidential election.

This is Me on a Plate

This is Me on a Plate

“This is Me on a plate” is an introduction to the Hamiltonian Fellows, a kick-off for the upcoming exhibition season and a fundraiser for the new, unified organization. Think Top Chef meets Hamiltonian. Fellows will work in pairs based on who they are showing with for their solos to create a dish that is in some way a reflection of their upcoming show.

An Evening with the Artists

An Evening with the Artists

Come spend time with the first year Hamiltonian Fellows, currently on view as part of new.now., as the second year fellows creatively interview then about all things art practice, new.now., and more! Each 2nd year fellow will have 20 minutes to interview the first year they will be showing with during the upcoming exhibition season. What will this look like exactly? Your guess is as good as ours but we can assure you it will be a non-stop thrill ride of an evening.*

Who is our Audience?

Who is our Audience?

Who is our Audience? will discuss diversity, equity, accessibility and inclusion (DEAI) in the art world. How can curators, artists and educators consider DEAI in the important work they commit themselves to? Panelists will provide best practice models followed by shared experiences and conversation from the audience.