About Us
The Publishers
The Art Opportunities Book is published by studioNOTES, founded in 1993 with the debut of the studioNOTES Journal, now available by free email subscription.
The journal encourages the exchange of ideas and information among
artists working in all styles, media and geographic locations. It has
interviewed individual artists about what they were doing and
thinking and gathered experiences and insights from working artists
around
the world. It has published such articles as
"Alternate Ways of Getting Exposure," "Pricing your Art Work," "How
Artists Hook Up with Galleries," "Is Art History Necessary (for Artists
to Know)," "Sleaze in the Art World (and How to Protect Yourself
Against it)," and "A Dealer Speaks: An Interview with Gallery Owner
Catharine Clark." In 2001, many of these
articles were updated and gathered into an anthology, The studioNOTES Treasury (still available from the publisher). Another well-known publication by studioNOTES is Art Opportunities Monthly, a carefully selected and researched list of calls for artists.The Author
Benny
Shaboy, the founding editor/publisher of studioNOTES, the primary author of The Art OpportunitiesBook is quick to acknowledge the
valuable contributions of dozens of artists and art world insiders. Trained at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and
elsewhere, his work is in collections in New York, Sun Valley, San
Francisco, Philadelphia among other places. In his quest to provide
useful and accurate information
for working artists at all levels of their careers, he has interviewed
and written about
such artists as William T. Wiley, Nathan Oliveira, Evan Lindquist,
Lynda Barry and Beth Yarnelle Edwards. He has also interviewed and
written about collectors such as Rene di Rosa and art historians such
as Peter Selz. He has been a guest artist/resource speaker at several
art schools and art organizations and has served as a juror for art
competitions, been a consultant to galleries and his writing has been
published in such magazines as Ceramics Monthly.The Contributors and Consultants
Raymond St. Arnaud, a Canadian based artist,
photographer and writer, contributed the article on shooting slides and Tamara Wyndham,
a New York based mail artist, painter and printmaker, the article on Mail Art.More than three dozen other working artists and art world insiders contributed valuable information to the book. These include Maria Arango, printmaker; Nikki Ausschnitt, an artist with over 50 years experience; David Alvey, artist and gallery owner; Rebecca Banyas, public art consultant; Frank Born, painter; Mernie Buchanan, painter and muralist; Beth Yarnelle Edwards, photographer; Sherana Harriette Francis, artist, juror, author; Fain Hancock, painter and teacher; Josepha Haveman, printmaker, photographer and educator; Robin Holder, public artist; Evan Lindquist, professor emeritus and printmaker; Jessica Phrogus, painter, printmaker, ceramic tilemaker; Patricia Tavenner, painter, printmaker, mail artist, educator; Othmar Tobisch, printmaker; Riccardo Toronto, photographer and author; Tom Walker, public artist; and James Wall, artist, and many others.
Among them, these artist and art world persons have hundreds of years of experience. Their work is in prominent museums such as the Museum of Modern Art, SFMOMA, the Whitney, the National Gallery of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Nelson-Atkins Museum (Kansas City), The Art Institute of Chicago, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Gallería degli Uffizi (Florence), Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, (Dublin), Portland Art Museum and the St. Louis Art Museum and the Whitney Museum of American Art (NYC). The have won dozens of grants, including ones from the Puffin Foundation, George Sugarman Foundation, Wisconsin Arts Board, Gerbode Foundation. and the J. Ruth Kelsey Travel Grant. They have been artists-in-residence at the Mendicino Art Center, the American Academy in Rome, McDowell (Peterborough, NH), Montalvo for the Arts (Saratoga, CA), Henry Street Settlement (NYC), Kate Millett Colony (NY), Vermont Studio Center, Mariz Ceramic Workshop (Czech Republic) and Fundacion Valparaiso (Spain). They have won fellowships, purchase prizes and public art commissions. Their work has been reproduced in publications such as The New Yorker, Harpers, Wired, Califa Books, and Ceramics Monthly and shown in prominent galleries throughout the western world. The author of this book and all who read it owe them a huge debt of gratitude.
In addition, 35 artists, including some of the contributors, have generously allowed images of their work to be reproduced in the book. Their work represents a wide range of styles, media and experience. The one thing all of the artists have in common is that they have responded to calls for artists, often quite successfully.
