AOPA

06/09/2023

Please keep your art out of
dumpsters. Properly archive and authenticate.

05/18/2023

Realization: we were way more compelled to want to read these books, when we discovered them as objects in a library display case, than we would seeing them as a list on a screen. The vibrancy of seeing art in person. Complex Times. Love the title.

05/18/2023

Realization: we were way more compelled to want to read these books, when we discovered them as objects in a library display case, than we would seeing them as a list on a screen. The vibrancy of seeing art in person. Complex Times. Love the title.

05/05/2023

Met with the amazingly talented, experienced and astute legacy steward Evlyne Lauin from assemblage.art yesterday for a productive business related coffee. She is the person to see for your art legacy needs..
We connected in the Artexte gallery here in Montreal which is showing a beautiful, contemplative and poetic video work by Sophie Jodoin, with music by Karen Trask, featuring the women artists from the Artexte archives. If you're in Montreal, check out the piece!.
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05/02/2023

Got a SODEC grant in. It will help cover the costs of hiring the great team I have lined up: senior programmer, senior integrator and project management/HR specialist. Fingers crossed..

04/14/2023

Back to the abstract. My programmer asked me to define all the content blocks in the theme we are going to build for artists. I am working on an EXEL document that lists and defines them all. It is complex. We are working with WordPress Blocks to streamline the development, and I am new them. Feeling overwhelmed. But I need to get there for the SODEC grant deadline at the end of the month!

04/11/2023

Medrie MacPhee is one of my longest standing clients. I had the pleasure of seeing her work for the first time in physical rather than digital form and it was amazing. Her and -on-paper have such a generous presence, and are full of esthetic and conceptual pleasures in their materials, forms, colors and textures.

I got my picture taken with one work on paper, "Brain at Work", 2023, that I loved from the first time I saw it.

Her show "Seeing is Knowing" continues until April 22, 2023 at Nicholas Metivier Gallery in Toronto. Check it out.

03/15/2023

Getting back into the world of ideas in art after a hiatus. The politics of the 80s and early 90s resurging is a surprise. This citation from an interview with David Joselit by Shanti Escalante-De Mattei in the February 27, 2023 of ARTnews.com, resonated with my observations of the power dynamics in a morally-weighted art community back then, and apparently, again these days.
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03/10/2023

Well, thanks to some help from friends and from my course in starting a business, Artist Online Presence and Archiving has made it to the next level. I am at an information session this morning because I convinced a jury that my project is viable enough to go to the next level. I'll have a monthly stipend and a coach. I think... The info session will tell all.

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02/28/2023

Ok. Jumped through that hoop! Now I'll be presenting to a jury in early March to see if I get let into the Soutien aux travaileurs autonomes program. This is a slide from my 10 minute pitch. Anyone want to see the whole thing? I could record a video, en français bien sûr. Anyway, to be continued....

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02/28/2023

30 minutes to presentation to École des entrepreneurs du Québec. PowerPoint ready. (works by John Massey and Cam Forbes setting the scene)

02/28/2023