{"id":697,"date":"2012-12-06T16:02:06","date_gmt":"2012-12-07T00:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenhenry.com\/blog\/?p=697"},"modified":"2012-12-06T16:02:06","modified_gmt":"2012-12-07T00:02:06","slug":"santa-clarita","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/helenhenry.com\/blog\/?p=697","title":{"rendered":"Santa Clarita"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"message1998367105\">\n<div id=\"yiv563242175\">\n<p><strong>CITY HOSTS FREE WORKSHOP ON DECEMBER 12 TO HELP\u00a0PROFESSIONAL ARTISTS\u00a0GET AND KEEP THEIR CAREERS ON TRACK<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The City of Santa Clarita invites professional artists and those working to strengthen their career in the arts to join artist and author\u00a0Karen Atkinson\u00a0for a free \u201cGetting Your Stuff Together\u201d workshop on Wednesday, December 12, 2012 at 7:00 p.m. in the Century Room at City Hall, located at 23920 Valencia Blvd.<\/p>\n<p>The workshop will provide aspiring artists with the business tools they need to advance their career and maintain a thriving professional practice.\u00a0 The workshop will also provide artists with the skills needed to be successful in the industry, including keeping track of work, writing a convincing artist statement, putting together a strong portfolio, networking, marketing and more.\u00a0 The idea behind Atkinson\u2019s workshop is the more artists know about getting their professional career on track, the more successful they can be.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGetting Your Stuff Together\u201d was created by educator, artist and curator Karen Atkinson.\u00a0 She is the President and Founder of GYST-Ink, a company dedicated to empowering and educating artists so they can develop sustainable and successful careers on their own terms by providing information, technology and solutions.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cGetting Your Stuff Together\u201d workshop is part of the City\u2019s ongoing \u201cNew Heights\u201d professional artist workshop series designed to expand local artists\u2019 skill levels and knowledge in various fields.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the New Heights series or to RSVP for the workshop on December 12, please contact City Arts and Events Supervisor Jeff Barber at (661) 250-3779 or<a href=\"http:\/\/us.mc462.mail.yahoo.com\/mc\/compose?to=jbarber@santa-clarita.com\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">jbarber@santa-clarita.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"contentbuttonbarbottom\">\n<form action=\"http:\/\/us.mc462.mail.yahoo.com\/mc\/showMessage;_ylc=X3oDMTBucmhobGR0BF9TAzM5ODMwMTAyNwRhYwNkZWxNc2dz?mid=2_0_0_1_943205_ANXTi2IAAKkyUMD%2BUgyU8lZ1PZs&amp;fid=Inbox&amp;sort=date&amp;order=down&amp;startMid=0&amp;filterBy=&amp;.rand=1452561939\" method=\"POST\" name=\"showMessageForm\"><\/form>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CITY HOSTS FREE WORKSHOP ON DECEMBER 12 TO HELP\u00a0PROFESSIONAL ARTISTS\u00a0GET AND KEEP THEIR CAREERS ON TRACK The City of Santa Clarita invites professional artists and those working to strengthen their career in the arts to join artist and author\u00a0Karen Atkinson\u00a0for &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/helenhenry.com\/blog\/?p=697\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/helenhenry.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/helenhenry.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/helenhenry.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/helenhenry.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/helenhenry.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/helenhenry.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":698,"href":"http:\/\/helenhenry.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697\/revisions\/698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/helenhenry.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/helenhenry.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/helenhenry.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}