BiB Alumni News for May 15, 2018
Information, opportunities, and resources 
for working artists
"Conversations With My Mother,"
Kathy Stark
Legacy Planning 
 
What will become of your artwork and other creative assets at the end of your career? Bryan Memorial Gallery in Jeffersonville and CERF+ in Montpelier have extensive experience with artists who are considering these questions. And both organizations have made available how-to booklets that include checklists, brainstorming exercises, and worksheets to help artists think ahead.
 
The Artist's Legacy Workbook by Mickey Meyers at Bryan Memorial Gallery covers areas from taking inventory and conserving work to considering where the work will be donated or exhibited after an artist's death. Selecting and working with an artistic executor is a focus of this workbook.

Crafting Your Legacy, written by Mark Richard Leach and edited by Meg Ostrum at CERF+, is intended for mid- to late-career artists. It begins by defining what non-artistic assets are, provides eight case studies to illustrate how and why an artist should create a plan for these assets, and provides checklists for action steps.

The sooner you start, the easier legacy planning will be.
Artist Opportunity  
 
Do you have extensive experience in your medium? The ability to discuss the pros and cons of an art project with a group of your peers? A desire to help guide how the Vermont Arts Council grants are awarded? Careful and thoughtful consideration of applications is critical to the success of the Council's programs.

The Council invites nominations and self-nominations for panelists to evaluate grant and teaching artist applications. By contributing time and expertise to this important process, panelists help serve the Vermont arts community.  

Submit a nomination.  
"Stripes" by Rosalind Daniels. 38" x49".
Rosalind Daniels grew up in Richmond, Virginia. Roz learned the needle arts as the daughter of a home economics teacher. Her first encounter with radiant tropical fabrics was in the South Pacific as a Peace Corps member. It was in Pakistan many years later that she was taught the basics of quilting - by a woman from Indiana.

Roz's world travels and inner creativity have shaped the work that she now does in Vermont. As a photographer and fiber artist, Roz focuses on fabric and geometry. Her quilt "Stripes" received an honorable mention award at the "Orange is the New Black" exhibit at the Ashton Gallery at Art on 30th in San Diego and is included in "Modern Quilts: Design for the New Century," published by the Modern Quilt Guild.
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Questions about the BiB Alumni Network, Vermont Arts Council, or our programs and services for artists? Contact Sarah Mutrux.

Artist and Community Programs Manager
802.828.5425
The Vermont Arts Council is funded, in part, by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, which requires a 1:1 match from the Vermont State Legislature. Council grants, programs, and statewide arts promotion would not be possible without the critical funding provided by these government agencies.
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