Workshops/Lectures

A listing of local and some national professional development workshops open to artists, educators, and organizations. To find out more about listed items, please use the contact information for that notice. Do not contact RACC.

RACC will present its Artists Workshop Series starting in January 2010. To view and register for these workshops go to RACC 2010 Artists Workshop Series.

3/11/10
3/11/10
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Please join the Oregon Arts Commission and the Oregon Cultural Trust for a webinar on what helps make a good grant application for the upcoming deadlines:

Arts Commission: May 1 Arts...

Event Date:
3/18/10
2/1/10
2/1/10
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Susan Brandeis serves as Director of Graduate Programs for the Department of Art and Design at North Carolina State University (NCSU), where she has taught since 1982. At NCSU, she coordinates...

Event Date:
3/18/10
3/12/10
3/12/10
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Will 2010 be the year to get your novel, memoir, or nonfiction manuscript in shape? The Seattle-based Author-Editor Clinic has been helping authors revise and polish their books-in-progress since...

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3/19/10
1/12/10
1/12/10
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A Music Law workshop, featuring Attorney Peter Vaughan Shaver, Esq. As part of its ongoing Professional Workshop Series, the American Federation of Musicians (AFM Union Local 99) and Sound Advice...

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3/21/10
3/12/10
3/12/10
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Arts Northwest is a non profit membership organization facilitating professional interaction between performing arts presenters, performing artists, management and performing arts service...

Deadline:
3/25/10
2/17/10
2/17/10
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A relationship-based approach to sell more art with less stress

If you are like many artists, you’d rather do most anything than ask for business to sell your art; it feels...

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3/27/10
1/29/10
1/29/10
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Each stage of the creative process requires specific attitudes, skills and behaviors. An artist can get stuck at any point: nothing excites or inspires, ideas stop flowing, it becomes difficult to...

Event Date:
3/27/10
3/10/10
3/10/10
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Shashi Caan is an internationally recognized interior and product designer and educator, founder of the The Shashi Caan Collective, and former Director of Interior Design at Parsons School of...

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4/1/10
3/10/10
3/10/10
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If you’ve considered trying your hand at freelance magazine writing, this is a great place to start.

This workshop blends Elizabeth Rusch’s popular conference workshops on...

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4/7/10
1/15/10
2/3/10
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Registration Open for the 22nd International Sculpture Conference in London, UK. Antony Gormley, Robert Storr, and Lucy Orta will headline the International Sculpture Center’s 22nd...

Event Date:
4/7/10
3/10/10
3/10/10
Literary

Publishing Chapbooks (WR-146-01) - 1 credit...

Event Date:
4/10/10
1/29/10
1/29/10
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Why do humans create art? Why do they stop? What can artists learn from scientists? If creativity is a mystery, how can an artist manipulate it? Through a mix of lecture, individual exercises and...

Event Date:
4/10/10
10/27/09
2/17/10
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This interactive workshop will focus on copyrights, providing practical information on various legal topics related to the protection of artwork and creative service work products. All artists and...

Event Date:
4/10/10
2/1/10
2/1/10
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Natalie Chanin is an Alabama-based artist, designer and documentarian who sees herself as a perpetuator of what she calls the “Living Arts.” These Living Arts consist of craft and...

Event Date:
4/15/10
1/29/10
1/29/10
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Craft is community. Craft is connection. Inspired by these philosophies of OCAC, this workshop links the community of OCAC to the larger community of artists presently working in Portland....

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4/16/10
10/27/09
12/3/09
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The discussion of art business contracts will focus on the Oregon Artwork Consignment law, collaboration agreements, licensing and sales agreements, creative services agreements, commission deals...

Event Date:
4/17/10
3/12/10
3/12/10
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The Attic Atheneum is our groundbreaking alternative to traditional or low-residency MFAs.  An 11-month certificate program, the Attic Atheneum melds independent study under close faculty...

Deadline:
4/24/10
3/10/10
3/10/10
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Love the theater? Love to travel? Our much awaited spring theater tours to NYC and London are just around the corner. Enjoy a week away with other theater lovers as Artistic Director Chris Coleman...

Event Date:
4/24/10
3/10/10
3/10/10
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The University of Oregon presents "Donald Judd: Delegated Fabrication," History, practices, issues and implications, a conference and exhibition in Portland,...

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4/25/10
10/27/09
12/1/09
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Meet and hear from three artists who have successfully navigated the waters of Public Art Commissions. Find out how they crafted their “RFP”s and “RFQ”s, how they created...

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5/1/10
10/27/09
12/3/09
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In this beginner’s workshop we will unravel the mysteries of the digital image. We will demonstrate and explain the first steps of acquiring images from cameras and scanners. Once we have...

Event Date:
6/5/10
10/27/09
12/3/09
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Tune your digital images to perfection. You’ll learn how to enhance your images using easy to understand features of Adobe Photoshop (CS4) software. This (4-hour) hands-on workshop will...

Event Date:
6/12/10
1/21/10
2/3/10
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The 30th Annual Northwest Booking Conference will be the largest gathering of artists, their management and presenters of the performing arts in the region. In 2010 hundreds of participants from...

Event Date:
10/14/10