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BIOGRAPHY
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701 Weybridge Circle
Severna Park,
Maryland 21146
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410-987-4400
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 Harryman Fine Art Career Seminars Page 2  
 "Success Strategies For Artists"
  Take Control of Your Art Career & Life
               Seminar Leader - Dick Harryman

Article reprinted with permission from "The Capital" June 27, 1997

Artists still struggle to make ends meet

    WASHINGTON  (AP)
Students earning degrees in pharmacy this year (1997) can expect job offers at $51,414 a year. Chemical engineers are getting an average $42,450. But artists?
    Every spring , 5,000 to 10,000 aspiring Picassos and Michelangelos emerge with degrees in fine arts from American colleges. Many face the same problem: how to eat regularly.
    "They mostly have to go into business for themselves," said Dawn Traub of the National Association of Colleges and Employers, which keeps job offer statistics.
    "The are no real job opportunities," adds William Barrett, executive director of the Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design in San Francisco.

    "Nobody is going to hire you to be a sculptor."  At the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, D.C., one of the country's oldest and best known, the whole faculty tries to find students jobs that have at least some relationship to art -- even if it is just as a guard in a museum.
    They do not always succeed. Some new "bachelors of fine arts" wait on tables. A few have hired out as house sitters.
    Some graduates teach. The College Art Association in New York carried 1,004 help ads in its magazine. The advertising manager says most were teaching jobs
    ED. NOTE - The  career outlook for creative artists has not improved since this dismal 1997 newspaper report.

The Independent Professional Fine Artist                 
IPFA Definition: One who earns most or all of his or her living from the sale of original art and art services.
As an IPFA, they do not need a side job in order to make it financially. They not only do not need a side job, they may not want any parts of a job...that is, as an employee working for someone other than themselves. An IPFA may, however, teach art or work at some select side job or project that is of special interest to them...something they decide they want to do for the sheer joy of doing it. Does this sound like something you want? What are your goals...passions? Where do you want to go? How are you going to get there? If having the freedom to earn your living doing what you love to do is of interest, either the evening workshop or one-day seminar will point you in the right direction and give you an emotional boost and solid guidance that will serve you for the rest of your life.

Do it now...take control of your art career & life!

On-Site Seminars, Workshops & Lectures
On-Site Seminars, Workshops & Lectures can be conducted at your facility.
Each presentations length and content will be customized to suit the size and make-up of your audience. The seminar is formatted to fit into one intense day. Workshops present the same seminar content in an expanded format of up to one week in length when interspersed with expanded discussion periods, painting and sight seeing. Seminar and Workshop attendees are provided with a workbook and other lecture aids that supplement the oral presentations. Lectures, usually 45 minutes plus Q&A, provide an overview of the seminar. The benefits of having a well thought out written personal art career & life plan is emphasized in all presentations. Seminar and workshop attendees receive a Certificate of Attendance upon completion of program.

Seminar/Workshop Promotional Booklets: self mailers customized for your organizations use are available.
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