Curves Ahead by L.Croskey
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(Pictured Above: "Curves Ahead" by L.Croskey)

It's been a while since the last AMP update, but then there's been a lot to do. Not only does the website have a whole new look; existing features have been clarified, consolidated, and in some cases extended; and an exciting new feature has begun.

Perhaps the biggest change is the reorganization of most of the site's information into two categories: real world and online resources. On the upper left side of the website, you'll see two new names: World Art Directory and Web & Worldwide. A dramatically clarified version of AMP's old Global Guide, the World Art Directory is a constantly growing geographically organized guide to arts groups, resources and more everywhere in the world that AMP's members are. Web & Worldwide is a constantly growing guide to online and international resources.

YOUR HELP IS NEEDED!!! The basic point of AMP is to collaboratively build a resource, BY and FOR artists worldwide, to make our lives as artists easier, cheaper, and more interesting. No one knows your arts community better than you do - and we can provide each other with vital shared resources. I post new entries in the World Art Directory almost every day, whenever I find out about something new - but your help is crucial for knowing what the best things are.

Please email me at pluginamp@gmail.com with information about at least one crucial arts resource - either in your part of the world or online. With the help of you, AMP's Community Members, we can build an incredibly helpful resource for artists everywhere.

Anything in these categories is needed:

  • Artist Groups & Group Activities
  • Performance Spaces and Venues, including Music Clubs
  • Festivals & Fairs
  • Event Listings - a link to your city's main magazines, for example
  • Any Materials, Supplies & Services
  • Centers & Foundations
  • Galleries, Museums & Exhibition Venues
  • Schools and other Educational Facilities & Services
  • Arts Business Resources
  • Residencies, Exchange Programs & Artist Living Situations


Explore the site some more and you'll see that older favorites, such as the Global Gallery, the Art Classifieds, and Art News & Media, remain the same, while other features, such as Featured Bloggers and What's Your Story?, have been integrated into the AMP Community menu on the upper right side of the AMP home page.

Between AMP's vibrant group of artist members and its capacity for connecting and community building, we're creating one of the best and farthest reaching resources for artists anywhere.

Child by Lamberto Acyatan
(Pictured at left: "Child" by AMPer Lamberto Acyatan)

Besides AMP's new look and renovations of existing features, there's a new feature this month: an Audio Advice Forum, which you can find on the left side of the light and clear AMP website. The basic idea behind AMP is for members of the AMP Community to help each other with the wealth of experience-based knowledge they have. The Audio Advice Forum will feature interviews with your fellow AMP Members, giving you valuable first-hand information that can help you directly.

Our first contributing AMPer is L.C., a gallery owner, curator and collage artist, who organizes Los Angeles art show Cannibal Flower, curates Venice (California) art space The Grind Gallery, and co-directs Silver Lake's Thinkspace Gallery. In these two interviews, LC gives valuable advice, grounded in his own extensive experience in the Los Angeles art underground, about submitting your work to art galleries. That's his collage, "Curves Ahead," featured above in this month's newsletter.

If you live in the Los Angeles area and would like to do a brief interview to contribute to the Audio Advice Forum, send an email to me at pluginamp@gmail.com.

And if you have a written piece of advice to pass along to artists of any kind, send it to me and I'll put your piece in the advice forum too, linking it to your website or other pertinent information.
Olivier Goulet
Featured AMP Member Olivier Goulet is a French transmedia artist whose vision explores the crossroads of activism and human design. Through an examination of the emotional body, he decodes the principle of identity. In projects that explore humanity as a species in the process of disappearance (Moults, Boxes of Hominoid Insects, Human Hunting Trophies), he imagines a mutation of human body, investigating the painful journey from egocentric individualism towards optimal collective identification and networking (The Relic of Bionic Man, Brain Rezos). Since 2001, his work is focused on the SkinBag project, which uses synthetic skin to create a metaphorical fusion between the organic and the digital. Goulet's work was featured in AMP's Body of Art exhibit.
Awakening by Johan Wahlstrom
(Left: Awakening, part of AMPer Johan Wahlstrom's current show in Malaga, Spain)

AMP is waiting to hear from you. If you have something to say to an international community of artists, put it in your blog on AMP - every AMP member has one as part of their membership.

If you have some images you'd like other artists - and perhaps some friends and collectors - to see, upload them to AMP's Global Gallery.

If you've recorded some music or other sound art and you'd like to share it, upload your audio to AMP.

Do you know of an opportunity you'd like to share with other artists - or need some help yourself? Post an ad to AMP's Art Classifieds.

It's all free, and you'll have an audience of thousands every month.

And soon you'll be able to advertise on AMP, for extremely reasonable rates. If you'd like to know more now, email me at pluginamp@gmail.com; more information will be posted on the website soon.

Keep your eyes and ears open for more about AMP soon. Over 100 of you submitted more than 400 entries for EroticAMP, so there's lots of looking, thinking, and talking to be done. There's more to come on the website soon too, and I think it's about time to start planning another party here in LA...

all the best,

 Portrait by Dan Wooster
Terri Anderson, Executive Director
AMP: Artists Meeting Place and Resource Collective

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