PRESENTATIONS DAY

FEBRUARY 24

10am - 4pm

$45

Have you been wondering how to get your work out there? Whether you're a beginner or have been shooting for years with a portfolio to die for, there's something to be learned from this one day discussion. Barbara Carpenter & Mark Sink will be guiding you through coffee houses to commercial galleries with their "Presentations Day" seminar. We'll cover the advantages of different gallery spaces and how to properly approach them.

PRESENTATIONS DAY: FINDING A VENUE
It's all about standards, quality reproductions, framing, research, marketing and contacts, the right portfolio for the right venue, and finally the best presentation to the right people. Our Presentations Day is a full day of short sessions with fine art professionals who can guide you into the first steps toward getting your work in great venues that will help you become a successful fine artist. Barbara's session delves into the early tenuous baby-steps for an aspiring or emerging artist. Whether a coffee-house or a co-op, ya gotta start somewhere, and it's gotta be positive. Get ready, do your homework. Barbara will give you the first assignments and prepare you for the annoying gotchas that you'll encounter.

PRESENTATIONS DAY: THE APPROACH
Mark's session will dive into the logistics of the final approach and will explore the etiquette, methods and standards for submitting work and how to market yourself to galleries as well as what galleries are looking for and how galleries will review portfolios. Discuss the intricacies of technical and social expectations when approaching a prospective gallery with a fine artist and gallery owner as Mark Sink and Barbara Carpenter help you to navigate the unfamiliar beginning of what could be a rewarding journey as a gallery represented fine artist.

BARBARA CARPENTER, FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHER

BARBARA CARPENTER began her work in photography at UCD under Ron Wohlauer and Ray Whiting. Working primarily with a Hasselblad medium format camera, Barbara was drawn to both classic black and white landscape and color abstraction, the latter becoming her signature work. In recent years, she has embraced digital printing, and now uses a combination of film and digital capture. She scans her negatives from subject matter created on table-tops as well as found abstractions from favorite junkyards. She has always chosen not to manipulate the images digitally, but to print them as she sees them through the lens of her camera. Recent work with digital capture has added possibilities for her junkyard compositions, always unmanipulated and brilliantly printed using archival digital processes. Barbara's solo exhibits include Grant Gallery, Hobart's Gallery, Spark Gallery and Lincoln Center. She has exhibited her work in the Cherry Creek Arts Festival and ZIP 8020 Group Shows and has been included in juried shows such as the Rocky Mountain Regional and others - too many to mention here. Barbara exhibited at Core New Art Space for 4 years and is now with Spark Gallery. Her work has been reviewed by Denver's most respected art critics as among the finest contemporary art in the region. Barbara is now Director for Spark Gallery. MORE about Barbara Carpenter www.barbaracarpenterphotography.com