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This Week Feb 4

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Highlights from Artbiz’s Facebook Page What I learnt about the arts this week…in case you missed it. 31 Fluffy Words Marketers Overuse and Abuse I get the impression that the conversation to personalize and strategize will limit the effectiveness and perception of the buzz. Therefore one must optimize and streamline the synergy to empower the branding. I used 11 of these words in the above paragraph. It sounds a lot like art speak. We’d do well to avoid. Read The …
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This Week Jan 13

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Highlights from Artbiz’s Facebook Page What I learnt about the arts this week…in case you missed it. Not since Scotch debuted double stick has HuffPost Arts been so excited about tape. Stunning Street Art Portraits Made Of Packing Tape By Max Zorn (PHOTOS, VIDEO) Max Zorn, a street artist based in Amsterdam,creates haunting, sharp, and cinematic portraits using only packing tape….read more Twelve Art World Habits to Ditch in 2012 It is 2012, but in the art world it is often …
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Resizing Images

Resize Images Step 1

Resizing Images article has been updated with new information The first thing you have to do in preparation to add content to your site is to optimize your images. Optimizing is a term used to indicate a change to a photo or a graphic, to reduce it in both visual size and file size, for use in other programs.  For use in an Artbiz website I ask clients to resize to no larger than 800px in any one direction and …
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Spreading it out

Kim Bruce Fine Art

Maybe you knew but maybe you don’t; I have a blog at kimbruce.ca my fine art site. It seems that most of what I write about here at Artbiz is on WordPress and how you as an artist can use it for your website. Over at KimBruce.ca I talk about my art but I have also have a category called “Art Management” which really doesn’t fit into my mission here at Artbiz. So I decided that I would expand myself and you by writing about …
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Art Rubicon

Wondering what happened the the great artist calls and resources we use to get from VAAA.  I think they went here: Art Rubicon Art Rubicon Visual Arts Magazine for Alberta visual artists, seeks to provide visual artists with current information on local, national and global artist opportunities, artist residency programs, funding and grants, as well as Alberta gallery exhibitions, events and other resources pertinent to the visual arts community. VAAA still has calls and opportunities listed on their website but …
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