• Boost your confidence!
• Validate your reactions to art!
• Empower yourself with sound judgments!
• Change your risk adverse nature!
• Marry your desires with art match making 101!

• Pricing Guidelines - why is it worth what the price tag asked
• Golden Tips and Insider Information - to give you head start
• The Best Reasons to Collect - Collect for fun, to network, and to ensure a rich source of creativity to enhance our community
  

SmART Collector: Art Collecting Secret Revealed Schedule for 2007

Making the most of your Art Walk Experience
Saturday and Sunday April 28 th  and 29 th at 1:45 pm and 3:45 pm
at the CityMark Sales Center, 1680 India St at Date St.

• Gain confidence in your ability to select art.
• Validate your reactions to art.
• Empower yourself with sound judgments.
• Learn what questions to ask the artists
• .Learn how to evaluate prices for art

Arouse Yourself with Art: Buying Art at ARTWALK Join Patricia Frischer, coordinator of the San Diego Visual Arts Network during ArtWalk 2007 in Little Italy for this brief introduction to the world of collecting, which is only 15 minutes long and repeated twice a day on both days at 1:45 and 3:45.. FREE
These seminars will be presented in the heart of Little Italy at the Southwest corner of India and Date Streets in the beautiful new CityMark Development offices. Patricia’s fascinating insights on how to evaluate the art that you’ll find at ArtWalk gives you a new outlook on art collecting. Original art is available to everyone, and these 10-15 minute mini-seminars help you to make choices that you will be happy with for years to come. These seminars are made possible through the generosity of CityMark Development.

ART COLLECTORS: OUR MOST IMPORTANT ASSET
MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN THE FOLLOWING WAYS:

• SUPPORT ART GALLERIES and help to find the new market of excellence
• BECOME EDUCATED especially about local art.
• CREATE A SYNERGY between yourself and other buyers. Have an attitude of co-operation not competition. Be transparent in all dealings and not secretive. Share all sources and contacts.
• EMBRACE ALL HIGH TECH opportunities such as web sites of galleries and artists, web marketing, web ezines especially www.SDVisualArts.net
• AWARD THE ARTISTS OF EXCELLENCE to create ART STARS by buying their work and spreading the word
• ENCOURAGE ART WRITERS to develop our media with documentation, critics, interviews, on TV, radio, internet, and all newspapers, magazines.
• BE FLEXIBLE AND OPEN TO ALL CREATIVE IDEAS by welcoming art at the beaches or the sports arena; even at corporations in the parking lots from a mobile van. Patronize restaurants with changing art shows, and galleries in our Art Colleges
• MENTOR THE FUTURE ART SUPPORTERS by introducing children to art and taking them to art events. Also please recognize and support teachers of excellence.

Our thanks to Cynthis Jenson-Elliott for her promotion of Art Walk and these siminars in the Night and Day colunm of the San Diego Union Tribune

Bygone Events

The following seminars are all held at
The Museum of the Living Artist at San Diego Art Institute, 2006
1439 El Prado, San Diego CA 92101 619-236-0011 www.sandiego-art.org

Wednesday, September 27 - 6 - 8 PM
The SmART Collector: Art Collecting Secrets Revealed - Questions Answered, Satisfaction Guaranteed
Panel discussion with art professionals, art dealers, art critics
$5 for members / $10 for non-members

Wednesday, October 18 - 6 - 8 PM
Spotlight on Art , SDAI Southern California Awards: Art Collectors Tell All
Open panel discussion with SDAI collectors
Free to members of SDAI / $4 for non-members

Wednesday, May 31 - 6 - 8 PM
The SmART Collector: Art Collecting Secrets Revealed - Get Intimate with the Basics
With Patricia Frischer - An overview of collecting art and prices - demystifying the visual art market, what it means to collect art, identify the collector's attractions, what to expect to pay for original artwork
$5 for members / $10 for non-members

Wednesday, June 21 - 6 - 8 PM
The SmART Collector: Art Collecting Secrets Revealed - Head, Heart and Soul
With Patricia Frischer and Joan Seifried - What's hot and in vogue in collecting art today - trends in media and styles, emerging artists, established artists, Baja Norte, photography, what to look for in art
$5 for members / $10 for non-members

Wednesday, July 26 - 6 - 8 PM
The SmART Collector: Art Collecting Secrets Revealed - The Allure of the Marketplace
With Patricia Frischer - How to find art for your collection - researching art galleries, art fairs and art expos, alternative venues, artists, commissioning custom artwork, mentors
$5 for members / $10 for non-members

Wednesday, April 12 4-5:30 PM
Collecting Secrets Revealed : How to Expose Yourself to More Art
Join Patricia Frischer at the Noble Room of Scripps Memorial Hospital, La Jolla. 9888 Genesee Avenue, La Jolla 92037 . This introduction for beginning collectors covers how to find art and artists, how to get mentoring help and how to do the research to become a more educated and confident buyer It is presented by the coordinator of SDVisualArts.net Sponsored by Studio Vivace . Contact Naimeh Tahna for more information 619.414.8929 FREE

Saturday and Sunday April 29 th  and 30 th at 2 pm and 4 pm

PRESS FOR AROUSE YOURSELF WITH ART EVENTS

Click here to see the program for the first event held at Galerie d'Art International

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For more information contact Patricia Frischer patricia@SDVisualArts.net 760 943 0148

Go to this link to find out answers to Frequently Asked Questions about the San Diego Visual Arts Network.

Support SDVAN and you receive more than the gift of art. You support that which binds us together that goes beyond religion, race, or gender. You support our freedom to express ourselves and to gather to celebrate our creativity.