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Programs - Professional Development - Artworks

VSA arts of Texas provides a series of regional workshops and forums to support literary, performing and visual artists with and without disability across Texas. Artworks and the Annual Statewide Forum on Careers in the Arts for People with Disabilities works to bring together artists, arts organizations, and rehabilitation professionals, to develop successful strategies to reduce the barriers to pursuing a career in the arts. Successful professional artists with disability offer participants innovative practices towards productive and satisfying employment in the arts.

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Panel members lead a discussion during an Artworks regional meeting.

Past Artworks Workshops include:

Photographing Your Artwork
Getting Organized: Pricing and Inventory Systems
Preparing to Show Your Artwork
Framing & Hanging
Copyright Your Artwork
Marketing for Artists
Exhibiting Your Artwork

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The six steps to artistic achievement:
1. Creative Vision 2. Development of Work 3. Organization 4. Preparation 5. Marketing 6. Exhibiting

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