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Miss Penny's Arty Stuff is a blog for artists. I aim to promote the many genres of the arts and share stories of interest and relevancy with an artistic community.

The photo above is of the Belabula River, Carcoar NSW where my family comes from.

Thursday, July 22, 2010

Invited as Guest Lecturer


I was delighted to be invited as guest lecturer for the Diploma of Visual Arts students at Noosa TAFE. I attended today to give a talk on the benefits of Public Relations for the Arts sector. I spoke of the changing landscape for promotions today with the juggernaut of Social Media rapidly changing the way we communicate and how we can harness this to promote ourselves, our artwork and our arts practices.

My audience were delightful and appeared to be very engaged in my discussions. Any extra education in Marketing and Communications can be extremely valuable for emerging artists and though some of them admitted, it was a lot to take in, I feel they have gained more general knowledge about networking and relationship building that they will be able to utilise as they build their own arts practices.

I will be returning to give another specific lecture on writing practice and some legal requirements of running a business in the weeks to come.

Their colleagues from the Ceramics course will be hearing the same lecture next week, so I do hope my friends from Visual Arts will give me a good wrap.

Here they are pictured following the lecture, testament to the fact that they survived very well indeed.

Thanks for having me Noosa TAFE and all the very best in preparation for your end of year exhibition.
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5 comments:

  1. Elise RenzenbrinkJuly 22, 2010 at 4:05 PM

    HI Penny.. I really got a lot out of your talk today. It was so interesting and the social media stuff blew me away. You got me motivated to work more on my facebook art page! Check it out, id love some feedback. Its called 'Elise Renzenbrink - Art'
    Looking forward to your next talk.

    Elise

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  2. AnonymousJuly 22, 2010 at 5:10 PM

    Hi Penny. Thank you for coming in and educating us today. Your speech was very motivating and it gave me a great insight to the future. It was a great honour to meet you and hear some of your knowledge on social media and networking. This is something I will definitely work on. Joining your blog is my first step. Thank you again and i will look forward to your next talk.

    Trish

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  3. Miss PennyJuly 23, 2010 at 7:06 PM

    Thank you for your kind words girls, it was great to meet you all too and it's always a pleasure to help artists. Best of luck with your networking and let me know when you get your own FB pages or blogs up, I'll be definitely visiting.

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  4. michelle,meya and erinnaJuly 25, 2010 at 7:09 PM

    Hey Penny. Thankyou so much for sharing your time and knowledge with us. I found your whole talk very interesting, especially the role social media can play in getting our artwork seen. I did attempt to post a comment last Thursday but had problems, however now I've obviously overcome them. Thankyou for introducing the Blog to me, I know it will be invaluable to me. Thanks for everything. Michelle.

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  5. Miss PennyJuly 28, 2010 at 3:38 PM

    Thanks Michelle,

    So pleased you got something from the lecture and from the blog. Marketing your artwork can be a lot of fun and you get better and better as you go along. Practicing posting comments is a great start for working in the blogosphere - you will soon get used to it.

    Thanks for taking the time to give me some feedback. Penny.

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