The Low Down:
Strategies for Artists During the Recession
Date: Saturday, May 16, 9a.m.-4:30p.m.
Registration deadline: Friday, May 8, 5p.m.

The economic crisis is having a large impact on the art world, but what does this mean for individual artists? What can artists do to prepare, survive, and even thrive during a recession? The Spring 2009 Business of Art Conference will look at the recession’s impact on the arts with input from art world professionals,accountants, artists and others.

The Low Down will start with a candid panel discussion about the effects of the current economy on the art world from the perspective of galleries, nonprofits, foundations and city government. An afternoon seminar will provide concrete financial planning advice geared toward the needs of artists. The day will conclude with a panel of artists sharing their experiences and new ideas of how to navigate and redefining the art world.
Complete conference schedule available online.

Location:
Barney Building
Department of Art and Art Professions
New York University Steinhardt School of Education
34 Stuyvesant Street
New York, NY 10003

Cost:
Artist Rate: $95 per artist
NYFA Artist Rate: $50
(This includes all NYFA Fellows and Fiscally Sponsored Artists and Organizations, and Immigrant Artist Mentors and Mentees)
Discounted tickets available for NYU students, staff and faculty.

Registration:
To register on-line please visit EVENTS
Registration deadline: Friday, May 8, 5.pm.
Please contact NYFA if you are having any trouble registering online, and we will take your registration over the phone.

Questions: Contact Jocelyn Elliott at jelliott@nyfa.org or 212 366 6900 x249.

Organized by the New York Foundation for the Arts, the conferences are made possible by a generous grant from the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation and McGraw-Hill. Additional support is provided by the Department of Art and Art Professions, New York University Steinhardt School of Education.

Deeply involved in the new book, and very happy and content with all things.

Thanks to all the people who have written to inquire about my delicate flower health. I am much improved, and have even been out in the garden, though it is so cold and wet there isn’t much to do just now.

There is a snow warning for Monday night! I will be very annoyed if if we get a dose, I am ready to move on and get more plants in the ground. I’ve already planted most of the raised beds, and I can’t recommend raised bed gardening enough. Takes minutes to do what used to take hours.

The pace on the books; steady and easy, and I have nothing but good things to say about it all, except the things publishers don’t want me to talk about. So know that I am completely happy and productive. And have time to work on A Distant Soil, which got all of my attention last weekend.

Also, more Stealth Tribes script showed up!

And I am rich in all things that matter.

“Know that it is good to work. Work with love and think of liking it when you do it. It is easy and interesting. It is a privilege. There is nothing hard about it but your anxious vanity and the fear of failure.”

Brenda Ueland