Life After the MFA
Independent Publishers’ Panel
Tuesday, March 4th
413 Dodge Hall, 8PM

featuring

Rob Spillman
TIN HOUSE BOOKS

Matvei Yankelevich
UGLY DUCKLING PRESS

Martha Rhodes
FOUR WAY BOOKS

Jill Schoolman
ARCHIPELAGO PRESS

Richard Nash
SOFTSKULL PRESS

Also see the attached flyer.

And mark your calendars for our next Life After the MFA event:
Tuesday, March 25th
Dodge 413, 8PM
Panel featuring Editors from Major Publishing Houses
Come gaze on the face of the editor who will publish your best-selling memoir/novel/masterpiece;
editors from Random House, Harcourt, Ecco/HarperCollins, and FSG will be participating, among others.
Independent Press Panel pdf

School of the Arts Students:

Please remember to check out the ARC Web site: www.arc.columbia.edu

To find out about Grants, Scholarships, Fiscal Sponsorships and other artists’ resources for your current art projects!

Check the calendar for upcoming workshops and events. 

Are feeling blocked creatively?  Do you need some Metamucil for your soul?  Come take part in this set of workshops addressing issues and solutions to creative blockages!

Spring 08 Work Block Group Available
Location:  Counseling and Psychological Services: Lerner Hall 8th Floor
Day and Time:  Mondays 1-3PM
For 6 sessions: February 25, March 3,10,24, 31 and April 7

To register or for more information contact Dr. William Sommer at (212) 854-2878 or email wgs2@columbia.edu.

Dear lovely SoA Students,

Are you interested in taking a low-key writing workshop in fiction, poetry, or non-fiction? Sign up for INTRO a non-credit workshop taught by graduate students in the writing division.  Classes meet once a week for 2 hours; submissions will be established by the teacher, and range from 2-3 submissions (a story or essay) a semester, or a poem every week or every other week.  Classes begin this week, but it’s not too late to enroll! All classes are non-credit and free of charge.  We’d love to have students from all divisions try their hand at writing

If interested, please contact Susannah Nevison with the class you would like at writingcats@gmail.com as soon as possible to register.

Classes available are as follows: (more…)

A Foundation Center event presented in collaboration with Fractured Atlas:

How You Can Afford to Be an Artist:
Ideas for Creating a Sustainable Career
Free Admission
This event is offered free of charge, but advance registration is required. Please go to the Foundation Center website for details.

Thursday, October 4, 2007, 3:00-5:00 pm,
2:30 pm: Check-in and refreshments
The Foundation Center
79 Fifth Avenue/16th Street
2nd Floor
New York, NY 10003

A special "Funding for Arts Month" program. It takes more than hard-to-get grants to survive and sustain your work over time. The panel presentation will focus on resources available to individual artists and emerging arts organizations working in various disciplines of the arts. Topics will include accessing space, insurance, materials and other non-cash resources. Come to share your own experiences and tips.

Basic Grant Writing Workshop
presented by The Artists’ Resource Center:
Wednesday, April 4th, 1pm,
LeRoy Neiman Gallery, 310 Dodge Hall.

Special guest: Lynn Lobell, Queens Council on the Arts.

FREE PIZZA and SOFT DRINKS (more…)

FOR ALL SoA STUDENTS

Free Pizza  &  Artists’ Survival Tools I
Topic: Resumes and CVs for Artists
Monday, March 26th, 1pm, LeRoy Neiman Gallery, 310 Dodge Hall

This workshop is for all students in film, theatre, writing and visual arts. (more…)

Wednesday’s alumni panelists at Columbia’s Center for Career Education (CCE) "Careers in: Performing and Fine Arts" panel shared the real story about life in the artists’ world.

It’s difficult to describe the artistic synergy that existed in a room full of artists gathered to empower one another. It was an inspiring and nurturing event… like learning the facts of life from your big sister or brother. You had to be there, you should have been there… if you weren’t here’s a glimpse of what you missed… (more…)

Careers In: The Performing and Fine Arts

March 21, 2007 from 6:00pm to 7:30pm
Center for Career Education Conference Room, East Campus

Featuring some of our very own SoA alumni who will share their real-life experiences in the art world. The alumni panel is about managing your career in the performing arts or fine arts. How do painters, actors, sculptors, and other artists create and manage their careers? What resources do they use? How do they find opportunities? Columbia alumni who primarily work as artists will share their stories, insights, and advice. For further information regarding this event, please contact Beth Olson or  by sending email to bo2145@columbia.edu or by calling 854-5609 or you may contact the Artist’s Resource Center: Marjorie Orcel-Cozart via email at  mro2105@columbia.edu.  Register today at: http://www.cce.columbia.edu/events/index.php.

There’s still time to take an INTRO Creative Writing class this year! Playwriting and Fiction classes begin March 23.

Do you write (or want to write) short stories, novels, plays, etc.?  Do you want a space to discuss and improve your work?  Sign up for INTRO!

INTRO is a non-credit creative writing workshop taught by graduate students from the School of the Arts.  The classes are peer workshops and will help you build a portfolio of writing as well as allow you to receive feedback from your peers and teacher.  At the end of the semester, you’ll have an opportunity (voluntary!) to share your work in a reading with other INTRO classes.
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