"Strategies for Success:
Managing your Career as an Artist" Coordinated by Mary Virginia Swanson and FotoFest
Houston, Texas

One-Day Workshop
Tuesday, March 16, 2004
Program repeated
Sunday, March 21, 2004

The Warwick Hotel, Houston, TX
Cost - $145.00, includes lunch

Due to popular demand, FotoFest is again sponsoring one-day career workshops for photographers with well-known Photography Consultant Mary Virginia Swanson.

The workshop focuses on what individual artists should incorporate into their career planning - market awareness, audience outreach, professional presentation of work, archive organization, contracts, and copyright issues. Informational handouts will be provided.

For more information please contact Martha Skow at projects@fotofest.org or Jenny Antill at meeting@fotofest.org.

To show how artists have used the theme of water in film and video art, FotoFest is developing, for the first time, a film and video series paralleling the scope of the exhibitions and installations. It is a three to five -week series done in collaboration with Houston museums, universities, and non-profit and commercial theaters. The films include works that use water as metaphor and context in addition to works for which water is the central focus.

Collaborating partners are the Rice University Media Center, Aurora Picture Show, Microcinema International, Southwest Alternative Media Project (SWAMP), and Angelika Film Center. Related programming is planned for additional sites in Houston.

For more information please contact Eileen Maxson at projects2@fotofest.org.

The focus of FotoFest 2004 is water: Water as a global resource and inspiration for personal creative expression. There are three directions to FotoFest's own exhibition and education programming in 2004.

The Global Perspective: Water as a historical determinant of human settlement and a force in shaping the future of international politics and economic development.

The Community Perspective: Water and the quality of life, its potential for enrichment and destruction. This area will have a particular emphasis on cities.

The Personal View: Water as a catalyst for individual aesthetic and spiritual contemplation and creativity. Exhibitions include net art, mixed media installations, and documentary photography.

Submissions are no longer being accepted. For more information about exhibitions, contact Vinod Hopson at press3@fotofest.org.

Artist Portfolio Reviews
March 12-25, 2004
The twelve-day Meeting Place presents an unparalleled opportunity for artists using photography to have their work seen by some of the most important people in the field of photography. FotoFest brings photography professionals - museum curators, gallery owners, magazine editors, and representatives of photography agencies, collectors and publishers - from around the world to meet with photographers and review their work.

The 2004 Meeting Place is held for twelve days, Friday, March 12 through Thursday March 25, 2004. There will be three 4-day sessions with one break day between each session. These break days take place on Tuesday, March 16 and Sunday, March 21. On the break days FotoFest is sponsoring the Workshop "Strategies for Success in the Marketplace ".

Photographers may register for portfolio reviews for four or six days. The fee for a six-day registration is $750, and four-day registration is $650.

The Meeting Place Brochure and Registration form is being mailed June 2, 2003, and the Meeting Place registration form is being posted on this Web site June 16, 2003. We will be begin processing registrations on July 10, 2003. For more information on how the Meeting Place functions, please look at the FotoFest 2002 Meeting Place. Please note that there are changes on fees and registration days.

Be aware that the 2002 and 2000 Meeting Place portfolio reviews sold out almost immediately.

More detailed information will be posted in mid-June 2003.

For more information please contact Jenny Antill at meeting@fotofest.org.

Tuesday, March 16, 2004
With auctioneer Denise Bethel, Senior Vice President, Auctioneer, Director of the Photographs Department, Sotheby's Inc. New York.

Over 90 contemporary international and U.S. artists are participating in FotoFest's Sixth International Fine Print Auction. The auction provides a rare opportunity to find high quality contemporary fine art photography from Latin America, Asia, Europe, and the United States.

The auction takes place on Tuesday, March 16, from 6:30-10:00 p.m. with a Preview Reception, Buffet, and Live Auction at The Warwick Hotel in Houston's Museum District.

Revenues from print sales at the Fine Print Auction will benefit artist programs, including the Meeting Place portfolio reviews. Proceeds from Auction ticket sales will benefit FotoFest's year-round Literacy Through Photography (LTP) in Houston-area public schools.

For more information please contact Martha Skow at projects@fotofest.org.

Science and Art, a Public Forum
FotoFest is bringing together science and art in a two-day public forum with Rice University. The major focus of the forum is to present new information and thinking about Water from the perspectives of science, technology, ecology, economics, public policy, and ethics. The forum is designed to address the state of Water in the world and projections for the future. Its purpose is to provoke new ways of thinking about Water and what Water itself needs to perform its life-giving functions on earth.

For further information about the Forum, please contact Martha Skow at projects@fotofest.org.

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