ÆQAI has a new blog page featuring regional calls to artists. There are web sites that do this on a national scale,
such as Art Deadlines List. This section is only for regional calls. There is no charge to have something posted here
or to visit the blog. We recomend that you follow it with an RSS feed reader.
Other resources include the following: The Fine Arts Fund offers various grant sources for individuals and organizations. The Weston Gallery as part of the Cincinnati Arts Association has an excellent Greater Cincinnati Exhibition Opportunities Guide.
The Kentucky Arts Council and Ohio Arts Council both fund individuals with small grant proposals.
There are also groups to join. Please join our Facebook group. One may get involved with ArtWorks and its artist registry. The Cincinnati Art Club has a membership roster and email lists for opportunities and events. There was the Arts Consortium of Cincinnati for Afro-American artists but it seems to be defunct (please email me if otherwise). For sculptors, there is the Mid-South Sculpture Alliance. For artists with disabilities, Visionaries and Voices offers activities/opportunities, and Art Beyond Boundaries offers professional exhibitions.
Kathy Stockman keeps a fairly up-to-date calendar of art exhibitions using Google calendar; click [here] to view it.
Professional artists in the Greater Cincinnati region are invited to submit an image (one only) of their work to be posted indefinitely on the side and bottom of various back pages of this web site. This is free press with the intention of letting outside visitors discover area artists. [Click here] for specifications.
No web site? Please consider the bottom section for an affordable option.
Some of the writers are amenable to making a studio visit for a critique of your work. Please send an email to the editor (editor AT aeqai.com)
and it will be forwarded to the writer you are interested in having visit. I suggest that you offer a sketch in exchange for the time and energy for the visit.
Via Google's Blogger, Wordpress, Weebly or Webnode (or many similar ones) you may create a free web site and choose from a great variety of templates.
If you do not wish to work your way through these programs, you may also use this inexpensive template service for artist portfolios, created by A.C. Frabetti. It uses Blogger; hence there are
no monthly hosting fees with the added bonus of RSS technology (all the free web site platforms such as those mentioned above do not charge monthly fees). The small initial cost includes programming, ongoing assistance and personalization. Click [here] to learn more.
Gallerists and store owners may find the template also useful.
