RISD NY

Photographer and RISD alumnus Steven Klein was featured in the New York Times' Thursday Styles section.

Mr. Klein has in fact been expressing that vision for decades. He first took up a camera at the Rhode Island School of Design, where as an art student in the mid 1970s, he began exploring his disturbingly violent, erotically charged and, some would say, unholy themes. His reputation rests in part on preternaturally polished images that owe a debt to Helmut Newton, whose models were often trussed in prostheses, as animated as blowup dolls. Mr. Klein’s celebrity portraits are sexier in a waxy sort of way.

While the presentation below is titled SEO for Photographers it is a good overview of understanding how search engines see web content and how you can take steps to make your site and its content more visible to search.

Search engine optimization (sometimes included with search engine marketing) may not seem like an important topic for art school grads but for anyone looking to be found on the web, understanding how search engines work is key.

As creators of visual content photographers, designers, illustrators, architects, and fine artists of all types are at a disadvantage in search becasue search engines are built to find text. It's tempting to let visual projects speak for themselves but the reality is that spending some time writing about your work, marking it up and getting other sites to link to it can significantly increase traffic to your site.

Spend a few minuts with this presentation and you'll have a roadmap for improving the visibility of your work.

New Photography Grant

Humble Arts Foundation is pleased to announce the Spring/Summer 2011 New Photography Grant. The $1,000 grant award will provide funding to one photographer to support project related costs.

Deadline: Friday, July 1, 2011, 11:59, PST

Additional information and submission guidelines here

WIP–LTI / Lightside Individual Project Grant

Humble Arts Foundation and Women in Photography are pleased to announce the 2011 WIP-LTI / Lightside Individual Project Grant, funded by LTI / Lightside Photographic Services. The $3,000 grant award will provide funding to one female photographer to support project related costs.

Deadline: Friday, July 1, 2011, 11:59, PST

Guest Juror: Heather Darcy Bhandari, Director, Mixed Greens

Heather Darcy Bhandari is the Director of Artist Relations at Mixed Greens. Since joining the gallery in 2000, she has curated over fifty exhibitions while managing a roster of nearly two-dozen artists. Heather’s passion and enthusiasm for artists has led her to curate independent exhibitions, sit on the board of NURTUREart (a nonprofit in Brooklyn giving opportunities to unrepresented artists and curators), and co-author ART/WORK, a professional development book for artists published in 2009 by Simon and Schuster. She’s a member of the New Art Dealer’s Alliance (NADA), College Art Association, and is co-chair of programming for ArtTable. She is also an adjunct professor at Brown University. She has lectured, and participated in portfolio reviews and panel discussions across the country. Heather received a BA in visual arts and anthropology at Brown University and an MFA in painting from Pennsylvania State University. Before joining Mixed Greens, she worked at contemporary galleries Sonnabend and Lehmann Maupin in New York City.

Available Grants

WIP–LTI / Lightside Individual Project Grant

$3,000. One grant awarded.

WIP–LTI / Lightside Materials Grant

$1,000 in Kodak materials selected by the grant recipient. One grant awarded.

Humble Arts Foundation Studio Visits

12, monthly, 90-minute studio visits with Humble's co-founders, amani olu and Jon Feinstein. One grant awarded.

Additional information and submission guidelines here