Fine Arts Career Services

So not only with creating and following through with this event, another student and I have started a new organization based on using creatives passions. We are offering opporunities for students to get involved in the music industry, whill still attending school. Personally, I have been going through the process of coordinating events, and getting people/connections for future events. We have made some really big connections not only here in Austin, but else where like LA and Miami. We want to not only bring artists in that the students and community will enjoy, but also give students that are interested in pursueing a musical career the chance for an opportunity. I believe the singer songwriter event will happen every year, yet the genre of music will change, and the business we partner with will change. Not only growing our connections as an individual and organization but allowing students to continue with their dreams and passions. Latley, I have been thinking about artist management more and more. I keep coming across the issue of how people in the music business world cant relate/understand the artist due to the lack of creativity or artistic nature of the business man. I have been thinking about ways to personally change that, and create a bridge between this problem so that artists are presented with creative ways of getting their things taken care of, and allow the business to still be able to count on the artist to get these things accomplished.

Today is my first day back at Sotheby’s after a long year off! I did the intern program in the Old Master Paintings department last summer and have returned for just 4 short weeks to get in some extra work/learn new things. So far, the day has been pretty slow. The intern program is still running so any work goes to them first. I started a project that i have been meaning to do for forever…since i became so passionate about art history. I am reviewing all of the important dealers in the Old Masters category and jotting down specific notes on each person. I see most of these people at the sales and constantly heard their names last summer so it is nice to be able to know more about them. In my future I want to work with private dealers so this is really nice to get more educated on them and their background. I have moved onto making a list of all artistic periods and what each one entails. I am focusing more upon European 13-18th century though. This is taking me quite a while. I have spent the past few hours on this and probably will spend the rest of the day doing it, probably tomorrow as well. Back to research!