Hope they dont think I am stupid

Completely just spelled Interest wrong in the title of an email to the person a want to Interview. Lame.

Grad School Cover Letter Example.

Dear Graduate Coordinator (get the name so you can make the letter more direct),

I am very interested in pursuing a masters degree at the University of UNIVERSITY NAME in Cardiac Rehabilitation (or the area you are interested in). From my review of graduate programs, and discussion with other professionals, it is very evident that the University of UNIVERSITY NAME Exercise Science Program has an excellent Cardiac Rehabilitation program.

I am completing a very comprehensive Undergraduate Program in Exercise Science at the University of New Mexico. As you can see by my resume, this program has prepared me well for the graduate education challenges I now wish to pursue. I hope that the skills and knowledge I obtain from this graduate degree will give me the opportunity to seek a challenging opportunity within a dynamic rehabilitation setting.

I have enclosed all materials required for acceptance into the masters program. Thank you very much for your consideration of my application.

Very truly yours,


Your Name

Gallery Cover Letter Sample

Jo Q. Public
211 Main Street
Springfield, WY 12345


June 1, 2002

Mr. Ishmael Ahab, Director
Big Fish Gallery
Provincetown, MA 54321

Dear Mr. Ahab,

During my recent trip to Cape Cod I had the opportunity to visit your gallery. The exhibit
entitled “Abstract No More” was a wonderful example of the resurgence in representational
painting in the northeast. I understand the artists in that exhibit are indicative of the kind of work
your gallery usually displays, which leads me to believe you will be interested in my recent
work.

Enclosed you will find a current resume, slides of some of my recent paintings, a statement about
the work, and a review from my solo exhibit at the Tarrytown Gallery. I would be happy to send
you more slides, or bring examples of my work to the gallery in person.

Thank you in advance for considering my work. I will contact your for follow up by the end of
the month.

Sincerely


Jo Q. Public

Enclosures:
Resume
Slides
Statement
Review
SASE

Cover Letter Tips

I found this website super useful! http://www.resumecoverletters.org/howtowrite.asp

One website had a nice example of the good, the bad, and the ugly cover letters.

The Good

Rosalind Franklin 8 Russell Street Cranford Lancashire MN22 8YY rf333@hotmilk.com 7th February 2009 Mrs Matty Jenkyns Personnel Manager Manchester General Hospital Hollbrook Avenue Manchester MN1 5BJ Dear Mrs Jenkyns
I am looking for a placement within a hospital environment from June to September of this year. I am writing to you as I understand that Manchester General Hospital may have appropriate vacancies available. I have a strong interest in laboratory procedures and clinical diagnostics which I understand are predominantly carried out at this hospital. As I live only 5 miles from your site, travel and accommodation would not be a problem for me.
I first became interested in the hospital environment after a school visit to your site. I was taken on a tour around the laboratories where the differing techniques used in testing clinical samples for patients were demonstrated. Since then, discussion with my careers adviser has confirmed my decision to aim for a career in this field.
Through my degree course, I have been able to develop my interest in biochemistry, whilst improving my laboratory skills along with my numeracy skills. I have gained some experience in HPLC and have good computing skills, having used several scientific databases. I achieved 68% in my first year examinations and am hoping to achieve a high 2:1 for my course work this year. While at University, I have also been able to utilise my skills in working with people through a variety of vacation jobs. My work at a busy insurance office was valuable in teaching me the importance of ascertaining customers’ needs and providing clear and accurate information.
I would be most grateful if you could consider me for any suitable positions. I will be available for interview at any time and am at my home address in Cranford from late May onwards. At all other times I can be contacted at my college address. Please find enclosed my CV where you will find further information. Yours sincerely Rosalind Franklin

The Bad

Dear Sir or Madman

I am about to complete my English and American Literature degree at the University of Kent, with a prospective result of a 2:1. As a literature student, I have a strong love of books of all types and see work in a bookshop as a career area which would be a good starting point for a career in publishing which is my eventual career aim.

I have good experience of retail, having worked as a shelf stacker for Sainsburies. I have studied modules in Shakespeare, War Poets, Dickens and Creative Writing all of which I feel give me valuable knowledge. My interests include reading, playing computer games and stamp collecting and I am currently reading Robbie Williams' thought-provoking autobiography.

I am writing speculatively in the hope that you may consider me for any full-time vacancies that may arise in your store. I'm interested especially in the retail side of a bookstore: interacting with customers and seeing where the modern tastes for literature lay.

I would be available to work from the beginning of June of this year. I have previous retail experience and believe that this, combined with my knowledge of and interest in books could be rewarding both to your store and to myself. Yours faithfully Frank Harrison

..... And the downright ugly!

Deer Sir or Madam

I have wanted to join .................. (space for him to insert the company name) ........ to work as a ........

(another space for him to insert the job title) ........ from an early age as you are a big prestigious employer

that lots of people want to work for and you offer high salaries. I also would like to work in another

country and you are a global company.

Hoping to hear from you shorty.

Regards,

Frank

.....and on a funny cover letter side note Cover Letters From HELL!

Q and A with Hamlett Dobbins.

After Hamlett Dobbins spoke with my professional practices class I was very interested in his home life, seeing as he lives in is gallery space with his children. These are the questions that I posed for him, and that he was awesome enough to answer!

Questions:
1.How do your kids interact with the space?
2.How do they feel when you have openings, are they invited?
3.Are they interested in the arts, even at such a young age?
4.Would you want your children to become artists if they show the interest in the subject? Why, Why not

Here are his Answers:
1. my kids interact with Material all the time, it's where we store our bikes, it's where they build their forts, if they have big projects they need to work on (how to build a monster out of spare pieces of pink insulative foam) they do it there in the gallery. From a very early age they know not to mess with the art or the walls of the gallery. It's just another room in our house. A room where other people show their art to other people. They walk through the space all the time to get from our living space to my studio.

2. they like the openings particularly if the artists are serving cookies for the refreshments. They sneak downstairs and grab one or two during the festivities. They usually just like to chill out upstairs during the openings, they know that when I'm down there I'm at work, making sure no homeless people or meth-heads come in and mess with anything, or if someone spills some wine I wipe it up before anyone slips and falls. I am also there to make sure the guests know who the artist is. Sometimes if a bunch of their friends are there at the opening, they'll come down and hang out. But usually they prefer to be in their part of the house. We do shut the openings down promptly at 8:15 so they can have some quiet as they go to sleep upstairs (their rooms are directly above the gallery.)

3. They are interested in looking at art and thinking about it. My son is very physical, he likes to build stuff and my little girl likes to read and is more cerebral. They both like to draw and they have sketchbooks scattered around the house. Usually drawing is the way we pass the time when we're at restaurants waiting on our food. When I was a kid my parents had friends who were potters (my godfather is a potter). And it was important for me to be around all those people. My sister is a poet and I guess the same goes for her.

4. I want them to do whatever makes them happy. They understand that the life of someone in the arts isn't always easy and it's always a challenge but I'm never bored and I always have something to do that I don't know how to do. I'm always figuring something out. I hope they see that. My wife and I always joke that the way they'll rebel against us is that they'll both be corporate lawyers.


Also here is a plug for the show at Rhodes this Friday!!

You should come to see the show at rhodes that opens on friday, it's a great painting show. really great stuff (www.caratomlinson.com).

Residonts

Working on my elsewhere application.... so many questions.

Mira Schor

On Failure and Anonymity was a slur of babble about why being an artist today isn't a source of wealth but a fleeting practice that will leave you broken and soulless. Reading this article made me just think this person didn't get the whole story. When I graduate with my BFA I have no intention of being a “professional wealthy artist” and I think the people who think that they will make enough money off their art for a living are extremely mistaken, and haven't really made much considerations for what the real world has in store. This first article just seemed uninformed and a way to break down someone who would be thinking of attending an art school. For the students who are on the path to just selling their art as a living I do think there could be more done in the schools programs to teach them basic life skills such as taxes, applying for grants, pricing of the work and so forth and so on, but I have never been mislead in any of my time in art school to think that being an artist alone and working on your art in your studio would ever be a source of wealth or fame.
Authority and Learning starts off with her proclaiming that she is not just a woman artist, but a feminist artist, and it all goes down hill from there. Claiming that all teaching is sexually charged, and that all the male teachers sleep with the female students, because the students are power hungry and look to their male professors to feed them with sex for good grades and good crits. I think this woman is in some fantasy land. I think most of her experience comes from her art education in the 1970’s and really isn't very relevant now.

Tracy Lauritzen Wright

This past week we had Tracy Lauritzen Wright come and speak with our class about her work with the National Civil Rights Museum. She is currently is Director of Administration & Special Projects at the Civil Rights Museum. She has a Masters of Museum Studies which has helped her attain the job that she has, as well as museum cataloging experience. She says that she was lucky she was able to find the job and get the job, but really she had all of her ducks in a row to get this job so it wasn't just luck. If she had not have found this job she definitely had the skills to find a very similar job elsewhere. It was important to me to see someone whose job wasn't really a complete windfall and that she actually worked very hard for what she wanted in a career.
It was also helpful to learn about museum work as an option for a Bachelor of Fine Arts graduate. As a former employee of the Children's Museum of Memphis I have always been aware of Museum work as an option. It is actually something that I could picture myself having a career in. Museums are great no matter what kind they are, beause there are so many options for employment in different areas and there are always opportunities to keep learning.
So again it was nice to get a view of someone who is not an artist, but is working in a very art related field. It kind of shows me that when I graduate I do not necessarily have to go with making art as a career option. My possibilities are unlimited.

How the hell do you write a gallery cover letter!?....help

In other news here are some works in progress and complete print!

This will be filled with cake:








This is fired and I am currently making intestines from pantyhose to wrap this sucker with.






How the hell do you write a gallery cover letter?


Finished 5 color reduction lino relief:


Beginning of a 2 cut reduction lino relief.

Gallery Visit

This week for my professional practices class I went to David Lusk Gallery to see Anne Siems and Wayne Edge’s work. When I first walked up there was a wonderful sculpture outside the front door of a split tree that was varnished and shiny with a tree like branching sculpture coming out of the top. On these little branches were mother of pearl on the inside of opened shells like blooms. These sculpture works were Wayne Edges. I was excited to see the rest of these sculptures as I walked in. They were all really nice works and utilized lots of recycled pieces of broken glass, ceramic, and rock. The main form of the sculptures were made from bent pieces of wood. Some stained different colors of wood tones and other painted bright green or blue. The pieces were very cohesive and my eye flowed all around the art. They were very pleasing in my eyes.
On the other hand and in the other half of the gallery were a series of creepy weird doll like paintings. These were Anne Siems works. I just was kind of baffled. These are the kind of painting I see in galleries and I am like, “Hey, I could do that!” Not that I would want to make creepy doll weirdness paintings, but if I wanted to. I think these paintings were acrylic. When I looked close the detail work on the paintings were so so and a little sloppy. The cartoonish aspects of these paintings didn't appeal to me. They had a weird 1800’s Victorian meets Haunted Mansion way about them. Everything about these were weird. Weird, weird, weird. This was some creepy work.

Whitney Ranson Visit

This past week in my Professional Practices class we had Whitney Ranson come and speak with us on behalf of the Urban Arts Commission. She took us through the process of applying of an open call for urban art and the process that is required for it to be actualized. The information was very interesting. In her presentation she showed images of a mural that was created for a community center in Frayser. She explained how three finalists are chosen, then one winner is picked from the three after they have presented their drawings and ideas to a board. After the winner is selected they have more drawings due and discussions about materials and a timeline is put together. She was clear that these projects do not happen over night and can take anywhere from seven months to two years for some projects to be completed. It all depends of what type of project and what scale the project is. Every project is started out with a budget, I found it interesting that the artist can keep up to twenty percent. If you got a good amount of these calls it could be a great option for a boost of income and publicity of your art. She also spoke about signing up for their artists registry on the Urban Arts website. To enter any of the calls you have to have one of these profiles. Urban Arts lists local only and national calls.
Whitney Ranson is someone who I think we can all strive to be. She ended up making a career from her internship, and that is a common goal that I think some of us share. It was also nice to hear from someone who was closer to our age and is not busing tables or working at Whole Foods. It would still be nice to find someone who is able to practice their art directly from college and what they did to be able to realize that.

http://www.urbanartcommission.org/

Monthly Budget

Rent-$400
Studio rent-$0 - In house studio
Electricity-$75-100
Cable- netflix $10
Internet- $25
Car payments? Nope
Gas money-$100
Food-$250
Entertainment - drinks, movies, music, going out etc...$75
Clothes-$80
Art supplies (begin saving all receipts) on average $100
Do you have pets? Nope

$1140 per month

Full time $8 an hour will bring in $1280
Full time $10 an hour will bring in $1600 per month

Will most likely try to find a salary job that will bring in 25k per year after graduation

$25k will bring in $2083 per month.

Bad Websites

Color is distracting Video is placed weird - http://www.tiptoland.com/index.html

Images with Copyright are distracting - http://jeffwalthall.artspan.com/home

Same server as above, but even worse placement of images - http://www.susannettelbeck.com/

Yikes - http://www.lennystudio.com/

Pat san sucks - http://www.patsansoucie.com/

Good Websites

Side set up - http://www.andydenzler.com/html/paintings/104.html

Very plain, but set up well - http://www.kenkagami.com/works/sculpture_toysass32.html

A little more than plain, but still pretty straight forward- http://www.kateclark.com/index.html

Top click button scroll very clean - http://billdurgin.com/

clean clean clean very nonchalant - http://erinmriley.com/home.html

Don Estes Visit

Don Estes

This week in my professional practices class we went on a studio visit with Don Estes. We arrived in downtown memphis on South Main and walked up to the side of a four story building. It had a commercial entrance and a man met us at the door to let us in. We rode the elevator up to the third floor by accident. (Although I really think the artist Don Estes just wanted to show us his super sweet digs). After seeing said super sweet digs we walked downstairs to his second floor studio. My jaw dropped. It was my dream studio, and I think a lot of people in the class felt the same. It was the kind of space you only can dream of. Big wooden beams, old creaky wooden floors, windows that span almost from floor to ceiling, and a beautiful downtown view. This must be the life! His paintings were almost as wonderful as his space. They were “abstract landscapes” They really spoke to me, as much as paintings can speak. I am still in awe over the work and the space. I think I was pretty overwhelmed. I still managed to ask a couple questions so I do not have any questions I wished I would have asked. He built his surfaces in such a peculiar way that I had never seen before, but they were wonderful. They were cut at 45 degree angles instead of just using straight one by twos. He made a funny comment about them being hard to frame and thats why he does it. He didn't seem to have that much to say about his pieces except for the fact that he was looking for a change. He also told us to become waiters, which really wasn't that helpful. Although it has been considered. All in all it was an interesting visit that made me think, and I think that is the best part of these trips. It helps us think about what we want from our art careers.