Veridian's ArtShare Program Provides Exposure to Young Artists
 | The roots of Veridian's ArtShare program began sometime in 2002 with the purpose of giving exposure to the work of student artists "providing them with a public format
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2/4/2010 |
Gary Noel
52 Cadillac
See Gary Noel's work at:
www.iowaartsgallery.com/artists/noelArt
-comments: A great color wheel tool. Be sure to click “Create” to pick your own color choices, or you can look at samples of what others have created. Requires flash.
-rating: good
-comments: I have to say that I love this site. Multi-media dialog on many works of art.
They have said, " a dynamic enhancement (or even substitute) for the traditional art history textbook. Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker began smARThistory in 2005 by creating a blog featuring free audio guides in the form of podcasts for use in The Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Soon after, we embedded the audio files in our online survey courses."
The quintessential art history text for the digital age.
-rating: excellent
-comments: Art2bank provides a world view of art from New York to London and everywhere else. A sense of context that can be very helpful for emerging artists as well as those who are established. It provides background on market trends, informative articles about the work of selected artists, and in my view one of the very best educational tools for those who would wish to learn about art as an investment, although it does focus broadly. Their header states "the art of patronage and investment".
-rating: good
-comments: Silva White provides a plethora of advice for artists and has been doing so for thirty years. Her articles are simple, direct and well-written and can help provide much needed perspective, including emotional perspective as well as marketing perspective.
-rating: excellent
-comments: Artbusiness.com provides, as the name suggests, content related to the business of art and may be a valuable resource for artists interested in doing a better job of marketing and understanding the art market. Articles are also available for collectors. Some material is self-promotional, but doesn't get in the way of browsing for other useful information.
-rating: good
-comments: The Art Renewal Center is a vast resource museum of pre-moderism painting and what might be called a classical revival movement. Many artwork examples have hi-resolution images, providing very good close-up examination of brush work, which is often missing from many, many, websites. And, from the perspective of substantive content, the Art Renewal Center makes very aggressive arguments in support of their movement and is well worth frequent visiting and cause for discussion about the nature of art and its creation and its impact on society and culture through history. While classical painting is not everyone's interest, the Art Renewal Center shows the world some of the best quality in painting that can be found anywhere.
-rating: excellent
-comments: Day to day news of the arts across the broad spectrum. Excellent journalism, something to keep in your favorites. Substantive, fascinating commentary and reporting.
-rating: Exellent
-comments: Askart.com provides a broad and detailed historical view of painting and provides what they refer to as a bluebook of painting values. Some content is available only by subscription.
-rating: excellent
-comments: Deviant art is an artist community and as with other artist communities it is estabished to further enlarge the community and promote interaction among its members. Registered members receive additional benefits, but anyone who would wish to expand there "presence" on the world wide web will appreciate the oppportunity to post images and other works here.
-rating: good
-comments: A fast growing artist's community that is based on a regional concept with national exposure for artists, and many, many features including on-line print on demad.
-rating: good
-comments: The Iowa Arts Council is funded by the state of Iowa and the National Endowment for the Arts and maintains an artist's registry, provides grants (mini and major) using an on-line grant application form, provides a roster of folk artists (auditioned), and a not too frequent email newsletter of events in the arts. The website can be a little difficult to find your way around in, but the people at the IAC are helpful and friendly. They offer advice and direction on grant applications. Some of the difficulty with the artist's roster may be just a lack of automation, but you can always call or email for help and its worth the effort to be listed.
-rating: good
-comments: Metro Arts Alliance is a Des Moines based non-profit organization created to promote the arts in Iowa. Metro Arts is a wonderful organization and does excellent and extensive work to fulfill their mission. Their website is a little skimpy, but there's enough information to make contact. They have a calendar of events, membership options, and provide an important local resource for artists to make connections, not just with other artists, but people in the community who care about the arts.
-rating: good
-comments: Lots of news stories of all varieties. Well written and documented covering current market trends as well as the historical discovery.
-rating: excellent
-comments: This is a long established website in an evolutionary transition with a large artist's community and many interesting tutorials, a virutal palette, reference photo library, and discussion groups. Wetcanvas has become, however, a busy marketing enterprise and sends out a fair amount of related product emails, marketing books, DVDs, and magazines. Not necessarily bad if you expect them, but they can be frequent.
-rating: good
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Artists are doing things all the time, ArtChatter is a way of sharing and
discussing their work.
.Join the conversation!
Each artist has their own ArtChatter space, and a sample of that conversation will be included on their home page and
here. If you're a registered account holder, you can upload images and write brief comments about your work. Other
registered users can respond, and show their own work.
 | Sep/01/2010 |
8/04/2009 An Interview with Kim Poam Logan, Executive Director of Des Moines Metro Arts Alliance. Metro Arts Alliance, a child of Des Moines city government, conceived in 1969 and born in 1975 as the Arts and Recreation Council; reached the age of majority in 1992 and changed its name to what we know today as the Metro Arts Alliance, pushing forward with a strong cultural and educational focus. more
7/27/2009 An interview with Iowa Arts Gallery founder, S. Richard (Dick) Shook I grew up in Northern Iowa between Manly and Mason City for most of teenage life. I've had an interest in art
almost as long as I can remember, but it was my grandfather who first encouraged me, as he was a painter himself. The fact is, that he was
also completely colorblind. more
5/1512009 StageWest, Urban Theatre "On The Edge" Ron Lambert is enthusiastic, and someone who plainly believes in the concept of urban theatre, “On The Edge”.which is in fact the slogan for Stage West. StageWest literally works out of a hole in the wall in the Des Moines Civic Center that was re-purposed from an office or a storage closet into a community theater, now known as the Stoner Theatre. more
