Career Development Grant
ACHF Arts Access ACHF Arts Education ACHF Cultural Heritage
I will present my photographs to a number of museum curators with the goal of placing my photography in several museums, and hopefully line up exhibitions with some of them. Additionally, I will receive feedback from curators and gallery owners. I attended this event many years ago and it was very valuable to me. I got good feedback, and had images accepted into the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. I'm now much more established as an artist, and my goals and expectations are now more in placing artwork, rather than getting critiques. I will consider it successful if I can place photographs in three or more museums and line up at least one exhibition. My goals are quite simple: Get my photographs critiqued by museum curators and gallery owners; place some of my photographs in museums; line up exhibitions with museums and galleries. Clearly, since this is a portfolio review event, I will get critiqued. If my work fits with the institutions, the other two goals should fall into place as well. My outcome will depend not only on the quality of my work, but also on the fit and timing with the institutions I meet with.
As planned, I had the opportunity to show a portfolio of my photographs to over 40 museum curators, gallery owners, and magazine editors from around the world. I was given very valuable feedback on my images, print quality, and plans for an ongoing project. Some museums expressed interest in working with me. Three gallery owners, and two art consultant firms expressed an interest in working with me in the future. In addition, I showed my work to several private collectors, and made one print sale on the spot for $500, to a prominent collector from England. This experience helped crystalize the direction I wish to take my images. It also helped to shape an ongoing project. I will almost certainly be showing my images in several galleries around the US and perhaps Russia and Spain, as a result of my having the opportunity to participate in this event.
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