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LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – The Middletown Art Center announces a three-part digital marketing workshop “Tools for Visibility in the Age of Social Distancing” geared to professional artists.
It’s happening this Saturday, May 2, from 1:30 to 3 p.m. and the next two Saturdays, May 9 and 16.
This course is designed to help artists explore a range of new digital tools to inventory their work and collections and to establish an online presence.
“It will help you to market and manage your art career more easily and professionally, and provide an online showcase for potential buyers, collectors and galleries to see your work more easily,” explained Workshop Leader and Curator Nicola Chipps. “We will also be talking about the COVID-19 Crisis and resources within the arts community that can provide a forum for discussion, as well as relief programs”.
This is the first of a professional development series the MAC plans to offer artists.
The workshop consists of three sessions: “Explore: Intro to Artwork Archive,” “Build: Your Online Catalogue” and “Connect: Tell Your Story.”
The format will be with a live instructor on the Zoom platform, which allows for interactive questions and answers. A laptop or computer is required. All sessions will be recorded so you can review the material if you miss one.
The fee is $60 for MAC members and $75 for non-members.
Please preregister online at MiddletownArtCenter.org/classes. Partial work-trade options are available. Technical support will be offered 30 minutes before class by appointment. Enquire via email to
The MAC has been offering children’s, and Woodland Community College art classes online since the shelter in place began.
Find out more about how MAC is adapting to the current evolving situation and ways to support the MAC’s efforts to weave the arts and culture into the fabric of life in Lake County at www.middletownartcenter.org .
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I had to drop out of a philosophy class in college because I'd begun to think about what I was thinking about and I was getting dizzy and sick.
Here's a poem by Danusha Laméris about getting relief from thinking. It's from “Poetry of Presence: An Anthology of Mindfulness Poems,” published by Grayson Books of West Hartford, Connecticut.
The poet lives in Santa Cruz, California, and she has a book forthcoming in April 2020 from the University of Pittsburgh Press entitled “Bonfire Opera.”
Thinking
Don't you wish they would stop, all the thoughts
swirling around in your head, bees in a hive, dancers
tapping their way across the stage? I should rake the leaves
in the carport, buy Christmas lights. Was there really life on Mars?
What will I cook for dinner? I walk up the driveway,
put out the garbage bins. I should stop using plastic bags,
visit my friend whose husband just left her for the Swedish nanny.
I wish I hadn't said Patrick's painting looked "ominous."
Maybe that's why he hasn't called. Does the car need oil again?
There's a hole in the ozone the size of Texas and everything
seems to be speeding up. Come, let's stand by the window
and look out at the light on the field. Let's watch how the clouds
cover the sun and almost nothing stirs in the grass.
American Life in Poetry does not accept unsolicited manuscripts. It is made possible by The Poetry Foundation, publisher of Poetry magazine. It is also supported by the Department of English at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Poem copyright ©2013 by Danusha Laméris, "Thinking," from The Moons of August, (Autumn House Press, 2013). Poem reprinted by permission of Danusha Laméris and the publisher. Introduction copyright @2020 by The Poetry Foundation. The introduction’s author, Ted Kooser, served as United States Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 2004-2006.
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