with MARGARET LAZZARI, visual artist, author, and past President of SCWCA

Saturday — April 16, 2005
1:30 to 3:30 p.m.

Brentwood Art Center
13031 Montana Avenue (at 26th Street)
Santa Monica, CA 90049

Registration deadline is April 11, 2005.
Registration fee is $20 for members and Brentwood Art Center students, $35 for all others. Cost for everyone at the door is $5 extra.

TO REGISTER: Make your check payable to SCWCA and mail it to SCWCA, 2100 N. Main Street, #A5, Los Angeles, CA 90031. Checks must be received by April 11, 2005. Call Ann Isolde at 310.315.0840 if you have questions.

It’s one thing to create artwork in your studio and another to put it out into the world!

Margaret Lazzari has lots of practical tips for emerging artists about navigating the business side of your life. She’ll start with the groundwork of developing your artwork and evaluating your production. Then she’ll share ideas about making connections with other artists, support groups, and mentors. She’ll talk about what works best as far as preparing your slides, resumés, artist’s statements, portfolio and proposal packets. She’ll provide useful advice There will be advice about meeting with curators, dealers, and exhibition coordinators and tell you what to expect from places showing your work. There will be plenty of time for Q & A.

MARGARET LAZZARI is a classically trained figurative artist, writer, and Associate Professor of Studio Art at the USC School of Fine Arts. Her paintings have been exhibited extensively throughout the United States and Europe. Lazzari’s books challenge the way art is taught in higher education and she was the first to integrate digital media into foundations education in her book, Art and Design Fundamentals. She also authored The Practical Handbook for the Emerging Artist and Exploring Art: A Global, Thematic Approach. She has worked as a curator and an art critic, chaired panels and delivered papers at the College Art Association, and won a 1995 NEA Fellowship. Lazzari received her MFA from Washington University in 1977.

Space for this workshop has been generously provided by Linda and Ed Buttwinick of the Brentwood Art Center.

DIRECTIONS: Take the Santa Monica (10) Freeway west, exit at Cloverfield Boulevard and turn right. Immediately after crossing Michigan Avenue, you will see 26th Street curving off to the right. Take 26th Street and continue several blocks north to Montana Avenue, Street parking is available around 26th and Montana Avenue.