2013 Artist Professional Development WorkshopYour Art Practice Made Real: Marketing via Social Media
Saturday, April 6, 2013
11:00AM - 2:00PM (refreshments served)
Carnegie Library Center - Stockton College, 35 S. Dr. MLK Blvd., Atlantic City, NJ 08401
This workshop will help you identify and build your audience, learn useful principles of print and online marketing, and how to use social media to your advantage.
The workshop presenters include:
- Karen Chigounis, associate curator and director of arts education programs for Perkins Center for the Arts.
Karen Chigounis is the Director of ARTS Education and Collingswood Gallery Curator at Perkins Center for the Arts located in Moorestown and Collingswood, NJ.
Chigounis was an art teacher before becoming Curator of Exhibitions and Programs for the Camden County Cultural & Heritage Commission and Hopkins House Gallery. During this time she organized regional artists into the Network of Visual Artists (NOVA), a support organization designed to address major issues of concern and interest relating to artists lives and work. Chigounis has a BFA from Moore College of Art and Design in Photography with a minor in Printmaking, an Art Teacher Certification and a Masters of Science in Arts and Cultural Management. As an arts administrator her primary mission is to provide opportunities for artists to work in arts residencies and to show their work in exhibition; an important aspect of our cultural sustainability.
Chigounis is a working artist as well as frequent juror and independent curator for exhibitions in the Philadelphia/New Jersey region.
- Peter Murphy. author and director of Murphy Writing Seminars
Peter E. Murphy is the author of Stubborn Child, a finalist for the 2006 Paterson Poetry Prize, and a chapbook, Thorough & Efficient. His unique poetry assignments have been collected in Challenges for the Delusional: Peter Murphy’s Prompts and the Poems They Inspired, edited by Christine Malvasi. He has received awards and fellowships from Yaddo, The Atlantic Center for the Arts, The Folger Shakespeare Library, the White House Commission on Presidential Scholars and the New Jersey Council on the Arts. Peter directs Murphy Writing Seminars which hosts the annual Winter Poetry & Prose Getaway, InService Solutions, and other programs for poets, writers and teachers in the U.S. and abroad.