This week, I finally started working on Radius 25 artist filing and PowerPoint documentation. Catherine started me on a stack of early submissions as they had their application and info sheets as well as discs with images of their artwork. Plugging away on the intern computer on the quiet Monday, I entered all of the artist information into a spreadsheet as well as saving all of their art images onto our computer in their own files. I then started making the Jury Presentation PowerPoint for the exhibition that included slides for each artist with their process statement as well as their art images along with the info and pricing with every submitted piece. There was separate stacks of filed and artists not filed and soon after a few hours of working and typing, I sorted through all of the submissions and organized the first steps towards the summer show. Being a curatorial assistant in the Radius 25 show, I will be in charge of creating the PowerPoint for the jury as well as helping out in every aspect of planning the future art show. After that, I watched and helped James for a while as he was sending out marketing emails and creating InDesign advertisements and show cards for Art Fair planning/advertising as well as helping out with renewal card designs. James and I then drove to Travel Salem downtown as there was going to be a marketing reception to advertise Salem Art Association to other organizations as well as hotels in the Salem area. As hotels are dealing with travelers and people foreign to Salem, we wanted to provide hotel staff and representatives with knowledge of Salem entertainment and local organizations to recommend to other exterior people of this capital town. We set up our half of a table in the friendly lobby of the Travel Salem business building as we were warmly greeted by the staff and friends of our non-profit organization. We displayed many stacks of the Bush Barn Art Center's current exhibition, Bush House Museum, and the CAE program show cards for others to see as well as a newsletter for SAA and a flier for our upcoming Color Run that will be a precursor to our annual Art Fair in July. Then along with snacks on the tables and booths with wine tastings and other organizations throughout Salem, hotel representatives flooded the lobby and listened to every table as we talked and glorified our individual organizations and event locations. Giving a similar introduction spiel to every curious citizen, we had the chance to introduce many people to what SAA does and I was interested that many Salem residents have never heard of/been to the Art Fair & Festival. I have been an attendance to the Art Fair ever since I was a little kid and it was great to spread the word of SAA to others as they would put our show cards in their hotel lobbies and hopefully influence Salem visitors to stop by the Bush Barn and support the arts with Salem Art Association. The long reception was great as there was food and interesting people to meet as I was curious on the Salem events as well as the guests of the Travel Salem reception. There was even a prize drawing for the guests of hotel stays, wine tastings, and even our SAA "swag bag" full of a membership, tee-shirt, bumper sticker, poster, and other great SAA goodies. Then after staying there for a few hours, my internship day was then ended as we packed up the remains of our flyers and unused pamphlets. Afterwards I felt glad to be helping out this organization I am now apart of and was proud to represent SAA in this event.
To see information about SAA on the Travel Salem website, look here to see our organization along with other fun things to do in Salem if you are ever bored of a place you call your hometown. (like myself) :)
http://www.travelsalem.com/Arts-and-Entertainment/Art-Galleries
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