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			Photographing Artwork December 5, 2009 (1:30-4:30pm) — This class is designed for artists and craft workers who need to photograph artwork for submission to shows or to build portfolios. Methods of setting artwork up to photograph will be demonstrated. Participants are encouraged to bring their cameras and some personal artwork in to use in the picture making demonstrations. Limit 15 students. Website: http://www.fallbrookschoolofthearts.org				Location: Fallbrook, CA Instructor: Jon Harwood & Robert Feuerstein Sponsor: Fallbrook School of the Arts Cost: $30 Email: Brigitte Schlemmer Phone: 760-728-6383

			Digital Portfolio Workshop January 23, 2010 (1 - 4 pm) — This course is designed for artists and amateurs just stepping into the digital realm. It introduces techniques for documenting one's own artwork by creating a digital portfolio from a simple camera/lighting setup and provides computer tips for CD production. This workshop benefits anyone who wishes to submit a digital portfolio of their artwork for consideration in college admissions, gallery exhibition and juried competitions. Participants are invited to bring one or two pieces of their own artwork to use as examples. (Basic computer skills required; see Introduction to the Macintosh Computer) Website: http://www.ringling.edu/cssp				Location: Sarasota, FL Instructor: Marcia Johnson Sponsor: Ringling College of Art and Design Cost: $65 Email: Diane Zorn Phone: 941-955-8866

			Children's Book Illustration January 26 - March 30, 2010 (Tuesdays, 6:30-9pm) — The world of traditional and modern children's book illustration is introduced through lectures, demonstrations, and discussions on different approaches. Several successful children's book publications are viewed as examples; and how to produce an effective book proposal or portfolio to present to publishers is covered. Participants gain a better awareness of the process of illustrating a children's picture book as well as increased understanding of storytelling, character design, and other basic illustration skills. (Previous drawing experience required) Website: http://www.ringling.edu/cssp				Location: Sarasota, FL Instructor: Caleb Prochnow Sponsor: Ringling College of Art and Design Cost: $295; 5% off tuition received prior to January 6th Email: Diane Zorn Phone: 941-955-8866

			Art Marketing January 27 - March 31, 2010 (Wednesdays, 6:30-9pm) — Learn basic marketing ideas and principles, and how to apply them in practical ways to help you promote your art career. This class includes a close look at setting up effective portfolio materials, digital slide catalogs, and marketing materials. Discussions on different approaches and a chance to look at alternative marketing styles will further enhance your learning. Website: http://www.ringling.edu/cssp				Location: Sarasota, FL Instructor: Howard Cowdrick Sponsor: Ringling College of Art and Design Cost: $295; 5% off tuition received prior to January 6th Email: Diane Zorn Phone: 941-955-8866

			Career Development for the Artist January 28 - March 4, 2010 (Thursdays, 6:30-9pm) — Taught by the author of the classic handbook How to Survive and Prosper as an Artist: Selling Yourself without Selling Your Soul (NY: Henry Holt & Company), this lively and participatory course helps the fine artist overcome basic problems of launching and sustaining a successful career. Highlights include: preparing for the gallery system; exhibition and sales opportunities outside of galleries; preparing for studio visits; pricing artwork; negotiating effectively with art dealers; understanding the corporate art market; planning a website portfolio; using blogs and social networking sites; and applying for grants, fellowships and artist-in-residence programs. Website: http://www.ringling.edu/cssp				Location: Sarasota, FL Instructor: Caroll Michels Sponsor: Ringling College of Art and Design Cost: $245; 5% off tuition received prior to January 6th Email: Diane Zorn Phone: 941-955-8866

			Portfolio Preparation (ages 15 through adult) January 30 - February 27, 2010 (Saturdays, 9:30am-Noon) — This course helps enhance the quality of work in your portfolio. It is especially geared for those preparing to apply to college for an undergraduate or graduate art or design program. The instructor is experienced in teaching across disciplines including drawing, 2D and 3D design, and he also has experience as a college admissions officer. Students are guided on self-directed projects in which they explore their personal expression and develop concepts through their own choices of media, all while further developing a portfolio. Critiques give students insight into their work and the way it is presented. Students should bring their portfolios or examples of work to the first class session. Website: http://www.ringling.edu/cssp				Location: Sarasota, FL Instructor: Peter Rampson Sponsor: Ringling College of Art and Design Cost: $155; 5% off tuition received prior to January 6th Email: Diane Zorn Phone: 941-955-8866

			Documenting Your Work January 31, 2010 (1-4pm) — This is a one-day workshop focused on documentation of the artist's work. Maintaining an organized, running history of your work for marketing, grants, and exhibition purposes, is an important professional practice. Learn simple professional methods for digitally documenting and tracking your artwork. Website: http://www.ringling.edu/cssp				Location: Sarasota, FL Instructor: Peter Rampson Sponsor: Ringling College of Art and Design Cost: $45; 5% off tuition received prior to January 6th Email: Diane Zorn Phone: 941-955-8866

			Art Career Self-Assessment: Knowing Your Destination February 6, 2010 (1-3pm) — Topics covered include: A review of the 5 parts of this program; Materials, outlines, goals, assignments and readings; Identifying one's skills, motivations, and work habits; Affirming one's personality relative to the dynamics of jobs and careers in art and design; The seven ways of knowing and affirming your direction and choices; The Seven Step Program; Career testing, its uses and diagnostic tools. Website: http://www.ringling.edu/cssp				Location: Sarasota, FL Instructor: Charles Kovacs, Director, Career Services Sponsor: Ringling College of Art and Design Cost: $25; 5% off tuition received prior to January 6th Email: Diane Zorn Phone: 941-955-8866

			Children's Book Illustrations February 8-11, 2010 (9:30am - 4:30pm, lunch break 12-1pm) — This seminar is set up to explore traditional approaches to illustrating a children's book. Students will learn basic to advanced approaches through the study of the publishing market, sketch preparation, image editing, dummy layout, and final artwork. Students will be working in traditional dry mediums such as pencil, graphite, charcoal, or pastel for sketch and dummy preparation. Finished art may be produced in pastel, water color or acrylics. Website: http://mysticmountainart.com				Location: Verona, NY Instructor: Debbie Bandelin & Robert Dacey Sponsor: Mystic Mountain Art, Inc. Cost: $849 Email: Mystic Mountain Art Phone: 315.662.7346

			Putting Yourself Together: Cover Letters, Resumes, Portfolios February 13, 2010 (1-3pm) — Topics covered include: Documents and their generation, why they are necessary, and how to construct them; The critical and legal nature of resumes; Principles of content and formats; The four kinds of portfolios and how to put them together with suggestions from employers; Introduction to web self-paced tutorials. Website: http://www.ringling.edu/cssp				Location: Sarasota, FL Instructor: Charles Kovacs, Director, Career Services Sponsor: Ringling College of Art and Design Cost: $25; 5% off tuition received prior to January 6th Email: Diane Zorn Phone: 941-955-8866

			Approaching Employers: The Job Hunt February 20, 2010 (1-3pm) — Topics covered include: An in-depth review of the three ways to get a job/internship; The 'fourth' option; Resources relative to the job/internship job search; Keeping track of the process; Materials and web resources relative to the job/intern hunt; Web self-paced tutorials and diagnostic tools. Website: http://www.ringling.edu/cssp				Location: Sarasota, FL Instructor: Charles Kovacs, Director, Career Services Sponsor: Ringling College of Art and Design Cost: $25; 5% off tuition received prior to January 6th Email: Diane Zorn Phone: 941-955-8866

			The Interview: Making the 'Pitch' and Mutual Evaluations; the Critical Conversation February 27, 2010 (1-3pm) — Topics covered include: Understanding the interviewer and the process; The five dynamics of the conversation and how to feel comfortable with them; Body language, tone, and intent of questions and responses; Handling illegal questions; Incorporating the portfolio into the interview; Mock interview practice; Dress for success, group interviews, handshakes; Communication skills review; Evaluating offers and salary/benefits, cost of living; Copyright issues; Negotiating and accepting, affirming and starting; Web self-paced tutorials. Website: http://www.ringling.edu/cssp				Location: Sarasota, FL Instructor: Charles Kovacs, Director, Career Services Sponsor: Ringling College of Art and Design Cost: $25; 5% off tuition received prior to January 6th Email: Diane Zorn Phone: 941-955-8866

			Portfolio Preparation (ages 15 through adult) March 6 - April 3, 2010 (Saturdays, 9:30am-Noon) — This course helps enhance the quality of work in your portfolio. It is especially geared for those preparing to apply to college for an undergraduate or graduate art or design program. The instructor is experienced in teaching across disciplines including drawing, 2D and 3D design, and he also has experience as a college admissions officer. Students are guided on self-directed projects in which they explore their personal expression and develop concepts through their own choices of media, all while further developing a portfolio. Critiques give students insight into their work and the way it is presented. Students should bring their portfolios or examples of work to the first class session. Website: http://www.ringling.edu/cssp				Location: Sarasota, FL Instructor: Peter Rampson Sponsor: Ringling College of Art and Design Cost: $155; 5% off tuition received prior to January 6th Email: Diane Zorn Phone: 941-955-8866

			Creativity Expressed through Sculpture March 8-12, 2010 (9 AM - 4 PM) — The value of art is elusive, so how do artists increase the perceived value of their work? This workshop will answer many questions artists face: financial expenditure, galleries, creativity and personal enjoyment, financial security, and how to combine distortion, abstraction and realism to increase the power of your work, just as Michelangelo and Rodin did. Anatomy, composition, negative space and form will be stressed, but the primary goal will be to analyze the intangible aspects of the creative process. Although students will have the opportunity to work from a live model, they will be free to explore any subject because the creative principles will remain constant. True creativity is reminiscent of childhood play, so plan to enjoy this week! Oil-based clay. Website: http://reg129.imperisoft.com/SAS/ProgramDetail/33373832/Registration.aspx				Location: Scottsdale, AZ Instructor: Lincoln Fox Sponsor: Scottsdale Artists' School Cost: $635.00 plus Model Fee: $35.00 Email: Scottsdale Artists' School Phone: (480) 990-1422 or (800) 333-5707

			Surviving on a New Job: Making the Personal and Professional Transition March 16, 2010 (1-3pm) — Topics covered include: Starting a new job, ending an old one; Relocation; Taxes and finance; Office politics, career advancement and professional conduct, dealing with a boss, dealing with co-workers; Making a name for yourself; Graduate or advanced studies; Professional associations and keeping current; Web tools and presentations and diagnostic tools. Website: http://www.ringling.edu/cssp				Location: Sarasota, FL Instructor: Charles Kovacs, Director, Career Services Sponsor: Ringling College of Art and Design Cost: $25; 5% off tuition received prior to January 6th Email: Diane Zorn Phone: 941-955-8866

			Photo Essay: Tuscany & Umbria April 10-17, 2010 (sessions daily) — The class goes on to detail and define how essays are collections of images that are stylistically and/or thematically unified in telling a story. The work of master photographers and photo-essayists will be reviewed in class. The class will touch on how to transform your ideas for a photo-essay into a tightly defined, coherent collection of dramatic, story telling images. You will learn to write a proposal for a photo-essay, the first step towards funding, exhibiting and publishing a project. Website: http://toscanaamericana.com/dhwellstuscanyphoto.html				Location: Cortona, Italy Instructor: David H. Wells Sponsor: Toscana Americana Workshops Cost: all-inclusive from US$2649.00 Email: Patrick Mahoney Phone: 508-254-8265

			For Love or Money April 12-16, 2010 (9 AM - 4 PM) — This workshop focuses on the challenges of becoming a successful commission portrait artist, which involves much more than just painting well! The commission portrait painter must understand client relationships, business practices, marketing and promotional activities, in addition to the complexities of delivering consistently high-quality paintings. This workshop includes both studio painting and lecture sessions. Saper will address the following areas of study: getting a likeness, understanding the colors of light and shadow, using photographic resources successfully, presenting yourself and your work effectively, client relations, understanding your market, and developing your own business plan. Students should have excellent drawing skills. The handbook For Love or Money will be used in the class. Website: http://reg129.imperisoft.com/SAS/ProgramDetail/33383037/Registration.aspx				Location: Scottsdale, AZ Instructor: Chris Saper Sponsor: Scottsdale Artists' School Cost: $585.00 plus Model Fee: $35.00 Email: Scottsdale Artists' School Phone: (480) 990-1422 or (800) 333-5707

			PreCollege Perspective 2010 (students 16-18 years of age) June 27 - July 24, 2010 — PreCollege Perspective is an intensive four-week curriculum where students build and strengthen their visual art and design skills and broaden their artistic potential while gaining focus on college and career goals. Three elective college credits will be awarded to all first-time students who successfully complete the PreCollege program. All PreCollege students are enrolled in five Foundation Studies classes that mirror the first-year experience in an art college. Workshop electives offer insight into specific areas of interest or provide an opportunity to explore a new medium. Become more focused and expand your portfolio for college admission, scholarships and other career goals. Faculty are professional artists, designers, illustrators and animators who teach through innovative approaches and cutting edge technology. Website: http://www.ringling.edu/precollege				Location: Sarasota, FL Sponsor: Ringling College of Art and Design Cost: $4,526 includes tuition, room, meals, and art supplies Email: Diane Zorn Phone: 941-955-8866

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