There are many online services for artist, I have put together a selection of interesting things you may find helpful in furthering your career as an artist. If you don't have access to a computer use your local internet café, and buy a computer ASAP as it will open many opportunities all over the world.
PACE Program - Pathways to Arts and Cultural Employment In November 1999, 'Uniquely New Zealand' set out the Labour Party's policy on how creative industries can make a significant contribution to New Zealand's social and economic well-being. It further recognised that the employment potential in the cultural sector is significant and that by delivering appropriate support to the sector, significant growth can be achieved in a sustainable way.In August 2001, following a discussion between Minister's Maharey and Tizard, the 'Pathway to Arts and Cultural Employment' (PACE) initiative was developed and agreed to. PACE was launched by Minister's Maharey and Tizard on 9 November 2001 and became effective from 12 November 2001. The aim of PACE is to assist job seekers willing and able to pursue a career in the arts and creative industries to move to wards sustainable employment and self-sufficiency. To find out more visit www.workandincome.govt.nz and search 'PACE'
EMAIL If you don't have an email address there is a great service from Goggle that is free. Visit: www.gmail.com make sure your email address is something you don't mind sending to clients. With gmail you get to store larger amounts of data and because it is newer than some of the other email servers you are more likely to get the name you want. It is good to keep a reference of your emails to look back at from time to time.
Goggle also have free photo software download for all your photo's called Picasa it is software that helps you instantly find, edit and share all the pictures on your PC. Every time you open Picasa, it automatically locates all your pictures (even ones you forgot you had) and sorts them into visual albums organised by date with folder names you will recognise. You can drag and drop to arrange your albums and make labels to create new groups. Picasa makes sure your pictures are always organised. Picasa also makes advanced editing simple by putting one-click fixes and powerful effects at your fingertips. Picasa makes it easy to share your pictures - you can email, print photos, make gift Cd's, instantly share via Hello™, and even post pictures on your own blog. Visit www.picasa.com to download this software.
Art support websites Become a member of these websites and you will gain some great information and loads of opportunities:
www.fuel4arts.com - Fuel 4 Arts These guys have some great resource and tools for marketing art. You can add the link of your website to their site.
www.tizarddesign.com - Tizard Design Web Development If you don't have a website give Shaughan a call to get the right website for you!
www.thebigidea.co.nz - The Big Idea This is a New Zealand website for 'The Arts' They have a really good newsletter that they send out keeping you up to date with jobs, competitions, news and so much more! Get registered!
www.artistsalliance.org.nz - Artist Alliance This also a great organisation which has a cost per year and they send you an artist workbook and a bimonthly magazine which keeps you up to date with many things also! If you are on the PACE program they give you a special price. You also get to use their website and find more information.
www.creativenz.govt.nz - Creative New Zealand Creative NZ is this country's leading arts development organisation. Staff based in offices in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch.
Central Region - Wellington Old Public Trust Building 131-135 Lambton Quay P O Box 3806 Wellington 6140 T: (04) 473 0880 F: (04) 471 2865 E: info@creativenz.govt.nz
Northern Region - Auckland Third Floor Southern Cross Building Cnr High and Victoria Streets P O Box 1425 Auckland 1140 T (09) 373 3066 F: (09) 377 6795 E: northern@creativenz.govt.nz
Southern Region - Christchurch Old Chemistry Building Arts Centre Worcester Street P O Box 2932 Christchurch 8140 T: (03) 366 2337 F: (03) 366 9199 E: southern@creativenz.govt.nz
Looking for a business mentor Go to your local Biz Info Centre and I'm sure they can help find a mentor for you. When I was starting my business I found everyone to be very friendly and helpful! www.businessmentor.org.nz Websites available to promote your work
www.deviantart.com Join the largest art community in the world! As a member, you can collect favourites, submit art, and track your friends and favourite artists. It is our intention to create the most powerful outlet in the world for known and unknown artists alike.
www.adamantinearts.org Adamantine Arts is a Minnesota based non-profit arts organisation. We promote community growth and development through a variety of programs centring on advocacy, education, promotion, and community.
http://myspace.com MySpace is an online community that lets you meet your friends' friends. Create a private community on MySpace and you can share photos, journals and interests with your growing network of mutual friends! See who knows who, or how you are connected. Find out if you really are six people away from Kevin Bacon.
www.myartspace.com Myartspace is a fresh new community-based website for young aspiring artists and photographers; more established artists and members of the art world - teachers, collectors, curators, museums, galleries, and art buyers. Members will be able establish their presence in the community, build and display galleries of their works, promote their works and career, participate in dialogue, competition and events, and build an online store to sell products.Click Here to see some of the pages I have made.Free online sites you can upload images and videos
www.youtube.com Founded in February 2005, YouTube is the leader in online video, and the premier destination to watch and share original videos worldwide through a Web experience. YouTube allows people to easily upload and share video clips across the Internet through websites, mobile devices, blogs, and email.
www.dotphoto.com Since its inception, dotPhoto has been at the forefront of the digital camera and cellular phone revolutions. Founded in 1999 its first incarnation was a simple web site for securely storing and sharing digital photos via the Internet. From their earliest days, the founders aim was nothing less than to transform the way "personal memories" were cared for, shared and preserved.
www.digitalmax.co.nz Print your photos online, anytime Order prints online using our amazing print wizard. Real photo quality printing from modern digital processing centre. Prints delivered to your door or pick-up from any of our 500 retailers throughout New Zealand (NZ). Their photo books are great for a professional folio to show galleries.
www.kodakgallery.com Kodak Easy Share Gallery, formerly known as "Ofoto", is the leading online digital photo developing service. The Kodakgallery.com site provides consumers with a secure and easy way to view, store and share their photos with friends and family and get real Kodak prints of their pictures. The site also provides free editing and creative tools and speciality photo products.
www.slide.com - Slide is the largest personal media network in the world, reaching nearly 120 million unique viewers every month. Slide makes widgets that help people express themselves and tell emotionally engaging stories through personalised photos and videos created on Slide.com and viewed anywhere on the web or their desktop. Slide Slide shows, Guest books, SkinFlix, FunPix and others enjoy tremendous popularity with the users of major social platforms including MySpace, Facebook, Bebo, Hi5, Xanga, Tagged and Blogger, reaching more than 65 percent of the total widget viewing audience.
www.woophy.com - Woophy stands for WOrld Of PHotographY, a website founded by a Dutch collective of photo aficionados and internet designers who believe navigation on internet can be more visual, logical and associative. The goal of Woophy's founders is to create an accessible, visual, current, democratic and collective work of art comprised of a database picturing our remarkable world. With the help of (amateur) photographers across the world we strive to ultimately cover every inch of our world map with images that represent the world's beauty and peculiarity from all different cultural perspectives. Users upload their photos for free into a personal account protected by a password, or download pictures in high quality for personal use. User email addresses and passwords are not shared with any third parties whatsoever.
Blogs Blogs are becoming a very trendy for all ages to have an online diary. It offers a place for people get to know the artist, therefore your work becomes a whole lot more interesting.You can get free blogs from www.blogger.com/start
Collecting money over the internet Try PayPal is it how many individuals and businesses send and receive money online. Accept credit cards, debit cards, and bank account payments for low transaction fees. Add PayPal to your website in minutes, no downtime required. Get access to a growing user base with millions of active online shoppers www.paypal.com
If you are wanting a shop in your website I hear that the 'Westpac' bank have a good deal with credit card payments over the internet.
New Zealand Affordable Art Show Hundreds of New Zealand artists from Deep South to the Far North will be showcasing their work. The show not only gives you the chance to experience a huge wealth of talent under one roof, it will also be at a price that means if you like it, you can own it - and take it away with you right there and then. First in, first served! The show will consist of thousands of pieces from new and emerging artists alongside those of more established artists. Art across all media will be available all under $5,000, offering you a unique opportunity to enjoy original, New Zealand made art - at home. For further information visit their website www.affordableart.co.nz
The Original Art Sale An enormous art sale is to be hosted in Auckland with the aim to show approximately 5000 pieces all under one roof.The aim of the 3 day event is very much to sell affordable, accessible art to all those who want it, in a relaxed and fun environment.To date over 200 talented artists are contributing but we hope to have more than doubled that number in time.Artists and Galleries may apply. Artwork should be priced between $100 - $4000.For further information visit their website: www.theoriginalartsale.co.nz email: info@theoriginalartsale.com
Get a personal art website My clever husband Shaughan at Tizard Design has developed an exciting art website package. This package has many features including a customisable gallery and a content management system. This is a complete "turn key" service! We will install it, host it on a web server and provide all the support you need. Prices start at $450.00 +GST for the design, $150 +GST hosting per year, $45 +GST domain name per year. You can get up to 5 email addresses per domain. If you would like to register your interest in a website visit www.tizarddesign.com
Check out these other websites: www.vistaprint.co.nz VistaPrint is making high-quality graphic design and custom printing convenient and affordable for everyone. Upload images straight from your computer or use their templates to created wonderful marketing tools like brochures, magnets, calendars, business cards etc. www.nzlive.com New Zealand Events Calendar www.artboomer.com The world's premier art portal, where groups and individuals committed to arts can present their talents and capabilities, find business partners and discover benefits of enhanced global exposure!www.artdaily.com The First Art Newspaper on the Net www.amazon.com The biggest online book shop www.art-of-the-day.com Art Show - Our pick of the day. www.artannouncements.com grant opportunities and visual art-related events www.otagoartsguide.co.nz Otago Arts Guide www.warhol.org The Andy Warhol Museum www.artandindustry.org.nz The SCAPE Biennial of Art in Public Space is New Zealand's only international biennial dedicated to the exhibition of contemporary art in public space. It is organised by the Art & Industry Biennial Trust. www.quayschool.ac.nz The Quay School for the Arts www.globalartinfo.com Full of competitions and grant etc www.mch.govt.nz Very interesting reading from the government files www.tepapa.govt.nz Te Papa, subscribe to their newsletter www.nzartguild.co.nz The NZ Art Guild is a nationwide group of New Zealand artists. The members are diverse in genres, styles, mediums and career stages, ranging from full-time accomplished artists to part-time emerging ones. www.worldofwearableart.com Wearable Arts http://absolutearts.com another newsletter one www.artfind.co.nz loads of New Zealand Artists are already using this website www.kiwiartz.com Buy contemporary art, get art news, purchase art from our 25,000+ artists and art galleries - online since 1995 www.artspost.co.nz Waikato Society of Arts www.wanganui.org A delightful unofficial website for Wanganui. http://Art-Mine.com New York Gallery online www.whanganuiopenstudios.org.nz Wanganui Open Art Studios www.sarjeant.org.nz The Sarjeant Gallery, Wanganui www.artnews.co.nz Art News Magazine www.mccahon.co.nz My favourite New Zealand artist www.nzherald.co.nz they have some great articles on art www.download.com/ArtRage/3000-2191-10309277.html ArtRage is a fun free painting program just visit the link to get a free download of the software. www.netguide.co.nz NetGuide magazine is a fantastic New Zealand magazine full of information about the internet! Check one out today.
There are more links in our links directory If you have any information you like like to add to this page please email it to me @ dee@paintpit.com
