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Marketing materials are now available for the 13th Annual SEA Conference which will be held February 22nd and 23rd at the Hilton Hotel in Lisle, Illinois.  Materials include:

Informational brochure
11 X 17 Poster
Keynote speaker flyer
Juried College Art Competition flyer
$1,000 Artistic Business Plan Pitch flyer
Scholarship information
Sponsorship information - exhibit space, program ads, etc.

You are welcome to download the materials from our website or we would be happy to mail materials out to you.

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Your portfolio represents your work to exhibition spaces and customers--it's worth the effort it takes to build and maintain a good one. Here's some advice about how to think about and construct a portfolio that does justice to your work.
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1   Link   Creating a Professional Portfolio
A former gallery director recommends dos and don'ts for artists' portfolios. From NYFA Interative, courtesy Abigail Rebecca Cohen Library. 		279
2   Link   Artist Portfolio Guidelines
A good overall how-to on assembling a portfolio. Note: Artist-support.com, which hosts this article, is a commercial site dedicated to art photography, but the advice is broadly applicable. Also, you'll be pitched for some books and services.
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3   Link   Dr. Art on Developing Your Artist Portfolio
Ask Dr. Art is a regular feature on the New York Foundation for the Arts Web site. In this article, Dr. Art (a.k.a. Matthew Deleget) addresses a question about artist portfolios.
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4   Link   Preparing Your Art School Portfolio
A brief overview of what art schools at the undergraduate and graduate levels look for in applicants' portfolios. 		268
5   Link   How to Prepare Slides
A former museum curator offers some common-sense tips that might not occur to the average artist. From Arts Resource Network, by Vicki Halper, an independent curator.
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6   Link   Photograph Your Own Artwork
If you can't affort to hire a professional to photograph your work, this article gives some advice about how to do it yourself. 		848
7   Link   Proper Care and Labeling for Slides
Slides not only constitute your portfolio. When you sell a piece, a slide is what you have left. So it's important to properly archive and care for them. At the Artistsregister.com, by Steve Meltzer 		1508
8   Link   Slide Labeling: Recommended Conventions
The fundamentals of tagging slides of your work, from the College Art Association. Very good, specific guidelines. 		269
9   Link   Your Secret Weapon: The Artists Statement as a Marketing Tool
From ArtistsRegister.com, this article provides a good primer on the why the artist's statement is important and how to go about crafting one.
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