Saturday, September 10, 2011 at 11:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) & Hallwalls present
As an outgrowth of NYFA's statewide MARK Program of professional career development for visual artists, three accomplished local artists—Bruce Adams, Amy Greenan, and Adam Weekley—all alumni of past MARK classes selected and trained by NYFA—will be available at Hallwalls for 40-minute peer-learning sessions to advise WNY visual artists on such career-related skills as effective proposal writing; promoting, pricing, & selling your work; writing artist's statements; effective digital documentation; creating an artist's web site; and basic business, legal, and tax matters for artists.
Please call Hallwalls at (716) 854-1694 to schedule your appointment. Since these initial sessions are being subsidized by NYFA, a nominal fee of $10 will be charged for each 40-minute session, and you can sign up for more than one session with one or more consultants. (Fees for future sessions will be more.)
Amy Greenan (born 1970, Buffalo, NY) has exhibited her paintings, drawings, prints, books, and ‘zines internationally. Her work is included in the collections of the Burchfield Penney Art Center, the Roland Gibson Art Gallery at SUNY Potsdam, and the Spencer Art Museum in Lawrence, KS, as well as in private collections in the US, Canada, and the UK. She is a recipient of the John Hartigan Memorial Painting Scholarship for the Ox-Bow artist residency, Saugatuck, MI (2011), as well as several NYFA SOS grants (2008–2011). In addition to her studio work in painting, Amy has also been making ‘zines (self-published, photocopied magazines) and books as an alternate art form for over a decade. She received the Nell Meldahl Scholarship to attend the 2011 Paper & Book Intensive, a two-week long series of workshops focusing on book arts. Greenan studied at SUNY Purchase (BFA), and the University at Buffalo (MFA). She currently works and lives in Niagara Falls, NY.
Adam Weekley is an installation artist living in Buffalo, New York. Born and raised in Parkersburg, West Virginia, in 1994 Weekley entered the Fine Arts department at West Virginia University in Morgantown. His undergraduate work predominantly dealt with family dynamics. After graduation he spent two years in New York City, working as a studio artist at an art consultant agency called NOVO and as a cataloguer at Sotheby’s Auction House. In 2003 Weekley graduated from the MFA program at the University at Buffalo where his work moved from largely two-dimensional drawings and paintings into the realm of large-scale installation. Weekley is currently an Assistant Professor in Fine Arts at Villa Maria College in Buffalo. He is the recipient of a number of grants and honors, recently accepted into the NYFA MARK and NYFA MARK Alumni Consultant programs. He has served as a preparator at a number of galleries and museums, including the Albright Knox, as well as curating and co-curating a number of exhibits at area institutions. He has continued to develop a body of installation work that comments on social and political concepts through creation of spaces and objects that play with artifice and the hyper-real. In 2006, his Installation Heating Up To Dream was exhibited at The Black and White Gallery in Brooklyn, New York. His most recent installation was exhibited as part of Beyond/In Western New York 2010 at both Buffalo Arts Studio and the Castellani Art Museum in Niagara Falls, NY.
http://beyondinwny.org/adam-weekley/