Say, Jim, are you going to the Maine Arts Commission ArtME workshop in Orono on Wednesday? Noon - 5. Free admission. Experts from the Maine Arts Commission are gonna tell us how to take advantage of Maine's Creative Economy. Ought to be entertaining, if nothing else. We're considering getting the raft out and poling upriver for it...
Orono's a fair-sized village. I don't have any information on this thing, and might go if A) I knew where it will be held (and where to park, always a problem in Orono) and B) You decide to pole and portage over. You'd have to get from the Kennebec to the Penobscot watershed.
Got a meeting for the day job that morning, but schedule shouldn't be a problem.
We're considering making the trip, in the spirit of making one's own fun and all like that. It may even, possibly, be informative.
Where: Maine Center for the Arts -- this is on campus, yes?
Who: Heck if I know. The snail-mail postcard and the website info are notable for the lack of proper names involved. Sarah Nics, the hapless young woman in charge of this thing, assures me rather desperately that the Maine Arts Commission loves writers, too, and we should all come out. I note, without comment, that, two weeks ago, when I went to the Maine Arts Commission webpage (www.mainearts.com) to register for their directory/newsletter, there was no option in the drop-down menu answering the question What Kind of Artist Are You?, for writer. Nor 'author', nor yet even 'poet.' It's my guess that MEarts got some grant money to do "workshops" and now they have to spend it.
What: 12-12:50 Session 1: Public Art in Maine Session 2: Agency Support for Arts Organizations
1-1:50 Session 1: Public Relations and Marketing for Artists and Cultural Businesses Session 2: Community Arts Development and Traditional Arts
2-2:50 Session 1: Building a Strong Portfolio Session 2: Arts Accessibility
3-3:50 Session 1: Arts in Education Session 2: Maine's Creative Economy Initiative
4-4:50 Session 1: Technology for Artists and Cultural Organizations Session 2: Working with National and Regional Fundraising
I poked at the MPBN website Community Calendar and came down with the same info, and yes, it all looks very visual-arts and performance and craftish. (BDN website was useless, as usual. No listing under "events.")
MCA is central on campus -- that's the beeg concert hall out behind where you had your signing at the bookstore. (Behind relative to where I live, of course...) The buildings are actually connected, but you can't get from one to the other inside. If you can find the one, you can find the other.
Speaking of "other" -- did the Arts Commission website offer that as an alternative? Sometimes I feel very "other."
Speaking of "other" -- did the Arts Commission website offer that as an alternative? Sometimes I feel very "other."
Indeed. My choices, did I not wish to cop to being a painter, sculptor, fabric artist, &c, &c were: Other or Publishing. Not publisher, but publishing. I wrote to the webmaster and pointed out the difficulty and got a note back from one L. Veilleux, who thanked me for my input and promised to bring my concerns to the website planning sessions.
Now, I ask you -- how tough is it to think of "writer" when your on the staff of an Arts Commission that administers a writing grant one year out of four, or whatever it is?
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Say, Jim, are you going to the Maine Arts Commission ArtME workshop in Orono on Wednesday? Noon - 5. Free admission. Experts from the Maine Arts Commission are gonna tell us how to take advantage of Maine's Creative Economy. Ought to be entertaining, if nothing else. We're considering getting the raft out and poling upriver for it...
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Orono's a fair-sized village. I don't have any information on this thing, and might go if A) I knew where it will be held (and where to park, always a problem in Orono) and B) You decide to pole and portage over. You'd have to get from the Kennebec to the Penobscot watershed.
Got a meeting for the day job that morning, but schedule shouldn't be a problem.
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Where: Maine Center for the Arts -- this is on campus, yes?
Who: Heck if I know. The snail-mail postcard and the website info are notable for the lack of proper names involved. Sarah Nics, the hapless young woman in charge of this thing, assures me rather desperately that the Maine Arts Commission loves writers, too, and we should all come out. I note, without comment, that, two weeks ago, when I went to the Maine Arts Commission webpage (www.mainearts.com) to register for their directory/newsletter, there was no option in the drop-down menu answering the question What Kind of Artist Are You?, for writer. Nor 'author', nor yet even 'poet.' It's my guess that MEarts got some grant money to do "workshops" and now they have to spend it.
What:
12-12:50 Session 1: Public Art in Maine
Session 2: Agency Support for Arts Organizations
1-1:50 Session 1: Public Relations and Marketing for Artists and
Cultural Businesses
Session 2: Community Arts Development and Traditional Arts
2-2:50 Session 1: Building a Strong Portfolio
Session 2: Arts Accessibility
3-3:50 Session 1: Arts in Education
Session 2: Maine's Creative Economy Initiative
4-4:50 Session 1: Technology for Artists and Cultural Organizations
Session 2: Working with National and Regional Fundraising
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MCA is central on campus -- that's the beeg concert hall out behind where you had your signing at the bookstore. (Behind relative to where I live, of course...) The buildings are actually connected, but you can't get from one to the other inside. If you can find the one, you can find the other.
Speaking of "other" -- did the Arts Commission website offer that as an alternative? Sometimes I feel very "other."
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Indeed. My choices, did I not wish to cop to being a painter, sculptor, fabric artist, &c, &c were: Other or Publishing. Not publisher, but publishing. I wrote to the webmaster and pointed out the difficulty and got a note back from one L. Veilleux, who thanked me for my input and promised to bring my concerns to the website planning sessions.
Now, I ask you -- how tough is it to think of "writer" when your on the staff of an Arts Commission that administers a writing grant one year out of four, or whatever it is?