CURRICULUM DETAILS:
Artist Trust developed a curriculum that includes training in the following areas:

PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATION - Successfully present your artwork.

• Selecting and presenting your work: portfolios, readings and reels
• Successful portfolio package and website design from a visual, substantive and graphic-design perspective
• Presenting yourself on paper, including essential components of a cover letter, artist statement, and resume
• Documenting your artwork

BUSINESS CONCERNS for ARTISTS - Organize the business side of your art practice.

• Business structures and planning
• Business licenses and insurance
• Financial management, including bookkeeping and long-term financial stability
• Understanding legal issues, including intellectual property and copyright
• Common contracts used by artists
• Working with and as independent contractors 

FUNDING, EXHIBITION, and OTHER OPPORTUNITIES - Learn about different opportunities and how to research, select and take advantage of them.

• Various opportunities available to artists and how to research, select, and take advantage of them
• Prepare a successful application or grant proposal
• Alternative funding, exhibition and other opportunities

COMMUNICATION and MARKETING of ARTISTS and THEIR WORK - Enhance the effectiveness of your communication with existing and potential audiences, peers and markets.

• Identify key art audiences and art market venues, and determine marketing directions for your work
• Define networking opportunities available to you, and identify appropriate methods of contact and follow through

Additional sessions are incorporated into the EDGE Program that focus on goal-setting and peer networking among the participants.

2010 PROGRAM SCHEDULE and FEES for VISUAL EDGE:
Artist Trust will hold one cycle of the EDGE Program for Visual Artists in 2010 in Seattle. The sessions will take place on two Fridays and six Saturdays over seven weeks, and the dates are as follows:

July 16-August 27, 2010

The cost of the seven-week program in Seattle is $400 per participant. Artist Trust offers limited tuition assistance. Artists interested in tuition assistance may submit a request with the application.  

For more information on the one-week intensive at Centrum, located in Port Townsend click here.

INSTRUCTORS:
Professionals in the regional arts community serve as lead instructors for each content area.

The EDGE Program not only introduces artists to the skills they need; it also introduces them to professionals in the field who work with artists and as artists. Participants in the program can expect these professionals to be their teachers and guest speakers, sharing their particular expertise and even opening up their studios for site visits.

1. eligibility requirements
2. appropriateness of EDGE curriculum to applicant's career goals, as expressed in the application essay
3. applicant's commitment to artistic career, as expressed in the application essay and artist résumé
4. artistic quality and promise, as represented in the work samples
   

Artist Trust seeks participants representing different artistic styles, as well as geographic and cultural diversity. A selection panel evaluates the applications and selects the artists to participate in EDGE. The selection panel consists of an EDGE graduate, an EDGE instructor, a regional arts-professional, an Artist Trust Board member, and an Artist Trust staff member.

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