Week of August 3
Beautiful by LVHDesigns
Announcements:
1. Marketing your art in a tough economy:
What networking and marketing tools do you use to promote your artwork? Flickr, Twitter, Facebook? How do you get your work out there and sold in a tough economy? Have you ever wondered if having a Ning account will help you at all? (or don’t have a clue what that is?)
If you have questions and thoughts for us on this topic, we want to hear from you! You can respond directly to this email, or join us in our team forum here. We’ll put together a series of helpful podcasts on building up a web presence / marketing tips based on what you said + things we have found to be helpful. Thanks and we look forward to hearing from you!
2. Object Challenge results:
Be on the lookout for a post soon about the BEE team’s summer Object Challenge results! Thanks again to all who participated!
One A Day Project
Letter from the Desert, by Veronique Latimer (as part of the One A Day project)
Annoucements:
1. Forums and podcasts on web presence:
We’ve been getting some great discussion in the forum about if having a portfolio site is helpful….. we’re hoping to do a podcast series very soon on marketing yourself as an artist by building up an online presence. If you haven’t joined the conversation, you can join us our team forum here. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions you’d like us to report on in our podcasts (specifically, on web / techie stuff), let us know. We’d love to get feedback so we can make this upcoming podcast series relevant and helpful to all our lovely BEEs!
2. Summer Object Challenge update:
If you had signed up to participate in our summer object challenge, please be sure to finish your pieces (and include a photograph and mini description) to Kathryn (via email – barnes.kathryn@gmail.com) asap. We’d like to compile the challenge results soon. Thanks and we hope you have had fun with the challenge!
3. One A Day project update:
A few of our team members have taken up the challenge to create one piece of art a day for at least two weeks! Veronique Latimer (as seen above) among others has taken up the challenge! Please be sure to check out members Kari Young and Melissa Hronkin’s blogs to see their one-a-day works as well. It’s exciting to see how these artists have pushed themselves over the summer!
Week of June 29
On A Line by VDumas
Annoucements:
1. The Buzz (Podcast): Later this week, another podcast will be launched! Be on the lookout for an email announcement. To hear previous podcasts, click here.
2. Summer Object Challenge: Several members are working away on their pieces. We’re excited to see the results in a few weeks!
3. One A Day project: For those members participating, the project has officially begun. Some have opted to begin at a later date, and some started today! More information will be posted soon on the team website – including links to blogs, pictures, etc. (If you’d like to jump in and be a part of the project, email info@beeswaxteam.com (subject line: one a day project) for more information.
4. Team Forum: New poll question this week in our team forum: “Who or what inspires you to create art?”
5. Happy upcoming Fourth of July!
Fireworks and beeswax,
Island Girl by Bumblebellydesigns
Annoucements
1. Conference video: If you haven’t had a chance to see our conference video (created especially for the BEE team!), you’ll find it on the front page of our site, or by clicking here. This will give you a good glimpse into what the Third Annual Encaustic Conference was like. We hope you enjoy it!
2. Object Challenge: For those of you participating, if you haven’t sent off your item, please do so ASAP! We’re looking forward to seeing the results of the Object Challenge in the next few weeks. If you have any questions about the Object Challenge, feel free to email them to info@beeswaxteam.com (subject line: Object Challenge).
3. One A Day project: There’s still a week left to join us for the One A Day project (where we create a piece of art once a day for a minimum of 2 weeks, then blog about it each day) We are aiming to begin June 29th, but welcome anyone to join us as soon as possible! Email info@beeswaxteam.com (subject line: One a Day project) for more information.
4. Team Forum: New questions and discussion threads are going in the Team Forum. If you haven’t begun contributing, we’d love for you to jump in and give us your insight! This week’s poll question is for encaustic artists: Which heating tool do you prefer and why?
5. Twitterific: If you have a Twitter account, but have not yet begun to follow the BeesWaxTeam updates, be sure to follow us for up-to-date information and links. There’s a growing number of encaustic artists on Twitter, so if you work with encaustics, join the Twitter fun!
Thanks and happy waxing!
Week of May 18
Road Rage Theraphy by Haley Nagy
2) New Podcast interview! If you haven’t checked out the newest podcast with Daniellexo from Etsy’s headquarters, be sure to do so! Danielle shared lots of fun tips and gave all of the BEEs a big shout out! To find the podcasts, go to the Buzz section of our team website: www.beeswaxteam.com
3) The Montserrat Encaustic Conference is fast approaching! Any BEE members that will be attending, participating, wanting to hang out, etc – let’s start chatting! You can post your information on the forum section of our team website.
The Buzz #5: Kbean Interview
BEE team co-leader and encaustic extraordinaire, Kathryn Dart shares about her inspiration and why she loves encaustics so much! As you listen, images of her work will appear. Podcasts are now available for download, and you may subscribe to receive them on itunes!
Week of March 9
The Stroll by Leililaloo
Announcements:
1) Website changes: In an effort to make the website cleaner and easier to navigate, some things are being changed around. There are fewer categories, but most of the same information can still be found on the site.
2) The Encaustic forum: To contribute, go directly to the “encaustic forum” page on our site, log in and contribute away! If you do not have a username and password yet, sign up on the encaustic forum page of our site.
Our Etsy-forum: you can find this week’s thread here.
