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#83 Harriet Silverstein: From Teaching Artist to Fine Artist

Today I’m speaking with artist Harriet Silverstein. Formerly of New York, Harriet now makes her home near Fort Lauderdale, Florida. She began her career teaching art and art history at the college level, doing illustration and commission work on the side. She now paints in oils in a studio in an art district called FAT Village, and shows her art throughout South Florida.

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Harriet Silverstein

You can find Harriet’s website here.

She’s also on Pinterest, and Instagram.

Harriet’s studio is at FAT Village Art District in Fort Lauderdale, Florida in the Art Trax Studio. Fat Village has Art Walks the last Saturday of every month except December.

Harriet as taken the Artist as an Entrepreneur class at ArtServe in Fort Lauderdale. This class repeats June of every year.

You can see Harriet’s artwork at these current shows:

At Bailey Hall in Broward College, she is part of the Connecting Women group show through April 17, 2019. This show is through the Fort Lauderdale branch of the National League of American Pen Women.

She will also be at Studio 18 in Pembroke Pines, Florida.

For one night only, April 11, 2019, Harriet has art at Art & Soul at the Business for the Arts of Broward.

She will also have art at the Reflect show at ArtServe in Fort Lauderdale.

If you’d like to find art shows near you, check out the links I’ve posted on my Episode #14: What is a Call to Artists and How Do You Respond to It?

Here are some great takeaways from this episode:

When trying to develop your artistic style, think about whether you are always going back to one theme or one type of art.
When starting something new, like Harriet did with her commission work, don’t stop your other work until you feel you’ve really got it consistently working.
Commission work can be challenging, but at least you know your work has a home, and it pays the bills.
When moving to a new area, look for artist guilds that you can connect with and possibly show your artwork. It’s also a great way to meet other artists.
If you’re looking for an art studio, see if your town has an art walk, because that may introduce you to the local art studios.
To keep a good art inventory, use a book and make a list of all your artwork and all the details about them, including what still needs to be done.
Seek out classes such as the Artist as an Entrepreneur class at Art Serve in Fort Lauderdale where you can learn to treat your studio as a business, and marketing yourself, and presenting yourself.

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#82 How to Host an Art Workshop

If you’re looking to learn a new art skill and get the benefit of meeting other artists, why not host an art workshop? Art instructors travel all over the world to teach their classes, and the students follow. I’ll give you suggestions on art spaces, lodging, and go through all the other details you’ll need to consider if you want to host an art class yourself.

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If you do a search for art workshops, or art retreats, you’ll find many choices all over the world. Here are some from artists that I’ve interviewed for this podcast:

Episode #31: Jodi Ohl hosts retreats near her home at ArtWorks Vass and also teaches at Way Art Yonder Studio with Jana Freeman. Here’s her calendar of classes.

Jana Freeman from Episode #39 has created Way Art Yonder Studio at her home near San Diego, California. She hosts retreats every month. Here is her calendar.

Connie Solera from Episode #45 hosts and teaches art workshops at various places, including Mexico, Costa Rica and Sedona. Here is her website.

In Episode #57, Laura Horn introduced her new workshop she is co-hosting in Bali.

Lisa Sonora, in Episode #67, tells us all about her retreat space in Oaxaca, Mexico where artists can teach workshops.

In Episode #73: Chris Zydel, she hosts and teaches classes in Bodega Bay, California.

And in Episode #81: Amanda Jolley, she hosts classes at her Studio Joy in Kansas City, Missouri. Here is her website.

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#81 Amanda Jolley: Encaustic Painting in her Studio Joy

Amanda Jolley worked as an accountant for many years before leaving it to pursue art. Since she didn’t have a formal art education, she sought out art workshops that she could take, and that eventually lead her to discover encaustic painting. She also added origami to her art style, since she had learned that at a young age. She now shows her artwork in galleries and continues her art education by inviting artists to teach classes a few times a year at her home studio called Studio Joy.

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Amanda Jolley’s website is amandajolley.com.

Her artist Facebook page is Amanda Jolley artist.

You can also find these other Facebook pages:

And on Instagram:

On Amanda’s website, you can find the list of upcoming Studio Joy workshops here.

Lisa Pressman will be teaching at Studio Joy April 4-7, 2019.

Crystal Neubauer will be teaching at Studio Joy May 3-5, 2019.

Amanda and Susan Stover host trips through Two Artists Travel. Their 2019 trip will be a mini-residency in Paris, France September 17-28, 2019.

Amanda mentioned in our conversation artist Patricia Baldwin Seggebruch. Click here to learn about Encausticamp.

Here are some great takeaways from this episode:

If you are trying to find the art that you’d like to do, then take a variety of art classes in many different mediums to see what you like.
Once you’ve figured out what kind of art you’d like to make, and you’ve made a lot of that art, you should start applying to shows to get your artwork seen.
There are so many art classes available, both in person and online, that you can continue your art education your entire life. Talk to other artists or search online to find classes that will appeal to you.
If you’d like to host art workshops at or near your home, make sure there are places to stay for the students close by, like hotels or air b and bs.
If your area has a vibrant arts district with occasional art walks, schedule the instructors to come during that time so that the students can enjoy what your town has to offer.
Consider inviting artist instructors who teach an area of art that you’d like to study.
When looking for locations to travel to, think of the artwork or culture that inspires you then find out where that artwork has come from.
Be careful about what you say yes to so that your time is not taken away from your original mission of your life.

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#80 How to Start a Podcast

A great way for artists to get the word out about their artwork or their area of expertise is to create a podcast. Podcast episodes can be easily created at very little expense, and can be a very interesting and important part of an artist’s brand. In this episode, I go over the basics of starting a podcast, including the equipment and software needed to record and edit a podcast and share it with the world.

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Microphones can be either dynamic (picks up sound right next to it) or condenser (picks up throughout the room). Read this article for one opinion on the best microphones for podcasting.

If you use Skype to talk to your guests, here’s a list of software that will record the conversation.

Recording software can be for both PCs or Macs or can be specific to one or the other. I use Audacity. Here’s a list of some others.

Here’s a list of podcast hosts. I use Libsyn.

Here’s an article I found that gives all the steps needed to create a podcast.

On Facebook, search the word Podcast or Podcast Community to find groups that can help you. I’ve found quite a few of my questions answered in these groups.

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#79 Mitch Bowler: Offering Art Classes for All

Mitch Bowler started his career in video game animation. He now has a website called Pencil Kings where he offers art classes for the hobby artist, and another website called Evolve Artist that offers more advanced online art classes. Through those websites, you can gain access to hundreds of classes for artists, including illustration, perspective drawing, and Photoshop. Links for his websites, class lists, and his podcast called the Pencil Kings podcast, are below.

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Mitch Bowler

Mitch Bowler has two websites. The first, called Pencil Kings, offers hundreds of tutorials for artists. Classes can be taken by purchasing a monthly membership.

His other website, Evolve Artist, is for the working artist who wants to improve his skills or who may have missed out on going to art college.

You can listen to the Pencil Kings podcast episodes here, or use any podcast app.

Here is the link to the interview with Kevin Murphy, who started the art classes that are located on Evolve Artist.

Here are some great takeaways from this episode:

If you have a goal of working a specific job, don’t spend a lot of time at the wrong job. Keep looking for a way to get into the job you want.
Once you’ve conquered a challenge, it’s time to look for a new challenge.
When working on your business, don’t think of it as a series of quick sprints. Look at it as a marathon and work toward where you’d like to be in 5 years.
Make sure you are collecting contacts through your own mailing list, because that is the only list of names that you can control. If Instagram, for example, suddenly changes its algorithms, you could lose hundreds of your followers, but it won’t effect the contact names that you have on your own mailing list.
When a window of opportunity is open for you right now, do as much as you can with it until it closes.
A good way to encourage yourself to make art is to join a challenge, like a sketch challenge or painting challenge. You can find these on Instagram or Facebook.
When starting something new, try to be the best you can and don’t just start more projects until you’ve been the best.
Seek out classes that you can take to improve the skills you need as an artist or for your business.

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