“Artists need to embrace the fact that both their work, and they themselves as artists, are brands that must be marketed.”

From this article: 6 Social Media Tips for Artists and Gallery Owners

Second step: In addition to posting new work or promoting new shows or openings, your blog can also be a place to offer a behind-the-scenes look at your creative process, share pictures from relevant art events or chronicle your time at a prestigious art auction.

First step is to optimize your website, second to get busy blogging, by the time you get to number six there more ideas on in particular social media sites that, I would rather keep to a low, at an amatuer level. Then by the sixth step: " Use press releases for search. While galleries often neglect to distribute their press....... You can use a low-cost service such as PRWeb to distribute your release for under $100." The next thing you look to do is to use SEO to target your site like what search term combinations will reveal you to potential customers.

This Californian's essay:Consumerism the new Capitalism

This is patch written, the modern style "breathing new breath" into idle words, like Nigel Warburton from PhilosophyBites.com

"Society is awakening from its fascination with television entertainment to find itself stripped of tradition, controlled by an oppressive power structure and bound to the credit obligations of a defunct American dream......... it lacks the fulfillment of other cultural mythologies........ . Economic worth has displaced traditional cultural values defining self-worth. Self-worth is gauged by buying power. The acts of buying and owning reinforce self-worth within consumer society......... Behind the butchery of symbolic values by media advertising, the mercantile machine smiles as it folds the green......... Controlling interests commodify culture and sell it to a public weaned on media advertising..................... striving for a media-produced image, our choices are made for us. Choice is reduced to brand name. .............. While capitalism has been linked to the origin of consciousness, consumerism and advertising deceit have become potential threats to consciousness........ the established conventions of language, art and cultural traditions lose their ability to inspire metaphysical truth." Very Complex, but inspirational, it makes you want to glue together stuff. Thats this artists from Venice, California's Essay Not a really good essay its gaging that people are value driven, but its true he's saying more than that wasy to go Cronk where is a spiritual introvert gonna go?

this creative outlet article...................

I was involved in up to five different creative outlets at a time. Now that my work consumes my life, that number has dwindled to one, and I can feel my non-design creative muscles twitching..................... "constantly asking why I found the blank page in front of me more interesting than their lessons...... The key is finding a form in which the final product matters less than in my professional work. The framework I craved as a kid is omnipresent in professional design."

ArtDNA from Britain................funding is often not driven by the artist but by funders.............. When I work with an artist I want the collaboration to provide an opportunity for the artist to extend their practice so they are realising something new or fulfilling an ambition........and then we can discuss which will work best for them and for the gallery, (always bearing in mind budget constraints). ........the idea of the artist/curator relationship being a collaboration gives the artist freedom to be experimental and use the curator as a sounding board to bounce ideas off. i think relationships tend to become difficult if there is not flexibility on either side."

"We kept in touch and tried to develop another piece but were finding funding difficult. it seems funding for projects is always difficult if you have your own idea

artists media performance art public This site came up public consent to participate in art google search about creative concepts in public art, making technical observations about what Public Art would be like in dictatorships. Then don't step to far ahead of yourself but the Catholics have 1.2 billion members and when it comes to church activies that go back in time to multi-cultural heritage of their history Eucharist is opracticed

Resources for artists Ontario Government

Paris France Art Page

Wikipedia a better list of Greek Gods than anywhere else....