Lessons Learned In Attempting To Foster An Art Town

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The Art Palaver headquarters is in Fort Collins. A town of about 145,00 people in Northern Colorado. Ft Collins frequently makes many “best of” lists put out by various magazines and news organizations. Such as: 5th Best Places for Business and Careers: Forbes – June 2011 One of the Top Ten Places to Retire in [...] Read more »

Mailchimp Email Marketing and List Manager

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Mailchimp is the service I want to share with you to kick of my series on free web tools to help you sell more art. Even though social media gets a lot of attention these days and people love to talk about what is new and what is next I believe good old fashioned email [...] Read more »

Market and Promote Your Art for Free

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Sell more art using free tools found on the internet! FREE!! That must be one of the most attention grabbing words in the English language. People love free stuff. We will often take things we don’t want or need if it is free. And thanks to the internet we now have terms like “freemium” and [...] Read more »

Meilena Hauslendale | Featured Artist

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Meilena Hauslendale is this week’s featured artist. Medium(s) you work in: Sharpie Marker & Watercolor. How would you describe your art? My art is based on my reflections of the world around me. I observe. I learn. I feel… then I create. I often have themes in my art. Sometimes I use symbolism and sometimes [...] Read more »

Maria Montano | Featured Artist

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Maria Montano is this week’s featured artist. Medium(s) you work in: Photography. How would you describe your art? My photography is about two things – the first is trying to share with the world how I observe the world. The second is about social justice – using my skill with the camera to raise awareness [...] Read more »

Modern Day Artist Podcast 5 | Blogging, WordPress, And Reality Television

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Work of Art, the reality television show by Bravo, art blogging, and WordPress all covered in this episode of the Modern Day Artist Podcast. More about Work of Art: Bravo’s latest stroke on the reality canvas brings Golden Globe and Emmy Award winner Sarah Jessica Parker and her production company, Pretty Matches, together with the [...] Read more »

How To Install WordPress Using One Click Install | Video Tutorial

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Installing WordPress is often the biggest challenge a new user faces. But using the “One Click Install” method makes installing WordPress easy. (Even for you.) This is the first video in a new series of videos I will be producing for Art Palaver. I kept this one very simple because I had to learn the [...] Read more »

Eleatta Diver | Featured Artist

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Eleatta Diver is this week’s featured artist. Medium(s) you work in: Acrylic. How would you describe your art? I describe my art as visual parables of hope. What artist(s) living or dead inspire you? Why? Klimt, Cassatt. What are your thoughts on selling art? The last 5 years have provided a shift in seasons for [...] Read more »

Modern Day Artist Podcast | Episode Four

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Marketing and selling art is not why you are an artist. You are an artist because you want to create, because you posses an urge to express yourself. But creating art requires resources. Materials, money, and time top the list. Selling your work is a way to get those resources. Art Palaver’s mission is to [...] Read more »

Kevin Caron | Featured Artist

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Kevin Caron is this week’s featured artist. Medium(s) you work in: Welded steel. How would you describe your art? Rusty (most of my pieces have a rust patina). Seriously, a combination of contemporary and practical art that is easy on the eye and gentle on the heart. My work is intended to evoke emotional responses [...] Read more »

Modern Day Artist Podcast | Episode Three

Marketing and selling art is not why you are an artist. You are an artist because you want to create, because you posses an urge to express yourself. But creating art requires resources. Materials, money, and time top the list. Selling your work is a way to get those resources. Art Palaver’s mission is to [...] Read more »

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