Technology/Equipment Grant
ACHF Arts Access ACHF Arts Education
My goal is to purchase a digital camera, SD card, tripod and camera bag with the funding provided through the Technology grant to take quality digital images of my artwork. As an artist finding my work on the gallery wall is as important as finding my work on the World Wide Web. I have a web page requiring updated images of current work. In the past I have been able to borrow a camera to take the images but now am needing to get a camera of my own to use. This is a purchase to last a long time. Something I will use to promote my art for years to come. Without finding images of my artwork on the web site folks will need to travel to Lizzard’s Gallery or my studio. I am trying to reach past my local audience to the larger audience. Good reproductions on the web will attract new interest and better demonstrate what I am currently working on in the studio.
The number of people seeing my web site - new art - is a measurable goal only if folks talk to me or make comments. Most people have told me that they go back to the site often, share it with colleagues, think about the art, verify that the art is still available...that sort of thing before making a purchase or contracting my services. I believe it is positive in that I have had more people speak to me about my site and they can refer to art posted there specifically because I have great images posted from the new camera. I also have found through creating an "Event" in Facebook (using new and better images taken with this camera/tripod) that new people have committed to attending the opening and are talking with me about my art. I have received one new commission (2016 Homegrown Music Festival Field Guide cover art).
Other, local or private