Artist Trust's Newsletter - September 1, 2008

New Discounts for Members!

As an Artist Trust member, you can flash your membership card to receive discounts at arts-related businesses throughout Washington.

Visit the newest additions to our Members Discount Program to get these fantastic discounts!
    - Pontarola's Art Supply, Walla Walla
        10% off art supplies

    - The Great Frame Up, Vancouver
        10% off non-sale items

    - The Great Frame Up, Spokane (3 locations)
        10% off non-sale items

To Print or Not to Print?
Deadline: September 15

In our quest to conserve resources we're currently assessing the usage and value of our print and online publications, including Possibilities, Art Source, and Artists' Assets.

You are who we serve. Please take this very brief survey about our publications to help us know what you want. Thanks!

Opportunities & Resources for Artists

Check out our up-to-date listings of the most current opportunities and resources for artists, including calls for art, grant deadlines, studio and housing listings, auditions, residencies, health care information, and tons more. Even easier, set up an RSS feed and be the first on your block to know about resources and opportunities like these:
    - The Hungarian Multicultural Center is currently accepting applications for the Budapest-International Artist/Writer Residencies.

    - Live Historic invites artists to an Open House at their recently-purchased enclave of vintage buildings on Seattle's Capitol Hill known as the BelBoy, which they are making into condominiums. Before putting the condos on the market, Live Historic is offering them to the arts community at discounted prices, with financial assistance opportunities. They will also offer artists the choice to purchase their home with an un-renovated interior at an additional 10% discount.

    - The UT Grand Prix 2009, a juried t-shirt design competition for cash prizes, is now accepting entries.

EDGE Grads In Action

Groups of graduates from three different cycles of Artist Trust's EDGE Professional Development Program are reuniting to exhibit their work. We're so proud!
    - Fourteen EDGE graduates present Beyond EDGE, an exhibit featuring a variety of mediums including oil and acrylic paint, encaustic, metal sculpture, papercraft, resin sculpture, collage, photography, and other mixed media. (Mount Vernon)

    - Fifteen graduates of EDGE react to the state of world affairs in Living With Doom: Art From the EDGE, featuring painting, printing, sculpture, art jewelry, and ceramics. (Bremerton)

    - Sixteen more EDGE graduates show their work in Off the Edge, at which each artist displays both an artwork and a self-portrait in various mediums. (Bellingham)

Tikka Sears: work created under compulsion
September 3-6, 2008

2006 Grants for Artist Projects and Fellowship recipient Tikka Sears presents the newest multimedia theater piece from her Memory War Theatre Project, which explores war's impact on individual artists throughout history.

Gail Grinnell: Lightly Here
September 5-October 12, 2008
Reception: September 7, 2-4pm

1998 and 2008 Grants for Artist Projects recipient Gail Grinnell presents her work at the Francine Seders Gallery in Seattle. The show includes works on paper created during residencies at Fundacion Valapraiso in Spain and the Ballinglen Arts Foundation in Ireland, and an installation in the Upstairs Gallery.

Arts Events Across Washington

Check out these and other arts events across the state on our online Events Calendar, and post your own events there!
    - September 9: Getting it Made, a free workshop on artwork fabrication, presented by the Seattle Mayor's Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs

    - September 4-24: The Korean American Artists Association of Washington's 18th Annual Members' Exhibition (Seattle)

    - September 5-27: The Desk, works by 1999 Grants for Artist recipient Jenn Reidel at Gallery 070 (Vashon Island)

News from Artist Trust Grant Recipients & EDGE Graduates

Congratulations to:
    - Lauren Osmolski, whose art is included in Ironwork Today 2, Inside and Out.

    - Christine Carlyle Reed, who received a Seattle Print Arts Society scholarship, and Sarah Hood, who was named a 2008-09 PONCHO/PRATT Artist-in-Resident, both through Pratt Fine Arts Center.

    - Perri Lynch, whose work was profiled in Art in America's 2007 Art in Review.

And check out:
    - Julia Haack's new blog;

    - New websites from Jane Richlovsky and Stephanie Skura.

Last Chance! Free Raffle Supports Artist Trust
Deadline: September 22, 2008

Want to help win money for Artist Trust? Pride Foundation's Raffle With a Twist will be giving away $7,500 to nonprofit organizations, and you can help increase the odds of Artist Trust winning! Enter the raffle online for free, and name Artist Trust as your favorite nonprofit. The more Artist Trust is named, the more likely it is that we'll win. Thanks for your support!

Creative Vitality Index

Check out the Creative Vitality Index, an annual assessment of the health of the "creative economy" that measures arts participation and employment. Not surprisingly, Washington rated relatively high compared to the rest of the country; it also experienced a significant increase in arts activities in Eastern and North Central Washington.

Office Hours & Holiday Closure 

We'll be closed Monday, September 1.

Our regular hours are Monday-Friday, 9:30am-5:30pm. Drop by and peruse the Artists' Assets Area, get advice on your latest grant application, etc.

Not in Seattle? Call us toll-free at 1/866/21-TRUST or email us! And peruse our extensive website full of resources and opportunities 24/7 from whereever you are!