Speaking of Photography with Jennifer Schwartz "Create Demand for Your Art" APG Gallery | Wednesday June 18 | 7:30pm
Speaker Jennifer Schwartz will discuss how to launch a body of work through both traditional and non-traditional avenues. She discusses how to create innovative programs that engage people with their images in meaningful and memorable ways. Her lecture "Create Demand for Your Art" empowers photographers to strategically and effectively cultivate audiences for their work. This talk compliments the book, Crusade For Your Art: Best Practices for Fine Art Photographers, and is geared toward photographers of all levels who want to explore creative ways to get exposure and build collectors.
She is the creator/director of Crusade for Art, a non-profit organization focused on cultivating demand for art, specifically fine art photography. Jennifer owned a fine art photography gallery in Atlanta (Jennifer Schwartz Gallery) for five years, showcasing the work of emerging photographers. She also created the online project, The Ten, and is the co-creator of Flash Powder Projects.
Jennifer regularly participates in portfolio reviews such as PhotoNOLA, PhotoLucida, Atlanta Celebrates Photography, FotoFest, Medium, Filter and others. She was invited as a curator to the Lishui Photo Festival in Lishui, China in 2011 and travels around the country giving talks, guest-lecturing at universities, leading workshops and hosting photographic retreats with Flash Powder Projects. In the spring of 2013, she traveled around the country in a 1977 VW bus, engaging audiences with photography. Her book, Crusade For Your Art: Best Practices for Fine Art Photographers was published in March 2014.
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