Visual Artists: Explore the Complex World of Selling and Presenting Your Work

Interested in presenting your work through galleries, exhibitions or other venues? This workshop will focus on key strategies and tactics to use when exploring opportunities with arts business leaders. Topics include:

• Navigate the process of exhibitions and selling art
• Preparing presentation packages for gallery submission
• Creating/updating your artist statement or resume
• Locating Exhibition opportunities
• Determine prices for your art and understand the marketplace
• Maximize the impact of your shows
• Organizing your own exhibition

Michele Pred is an internationally exhibited artist who has been teaching professional practices to artists for six years and currently Senior Adjunct Professor at California College of the Arts, where she teaches Professional Practices. She has led workshops and portfolio reviews for Center for Cultural Innovation, Pro Arts Gallery, Kala Art Center, the Di Rosa Preserve and Napa Valley Arts Council.

Her artwork has been exhibited in galleries and art fairs and museums in London, Stockholm, New York, Bologna, Miami, Los Angeles, Chicago and San Francisco. Her work is part of the permanent collection at the 21st Century Museum, The Contemporary Museum in Honolulu, the Di Rosa Preserve in Napa, CA and is held in numerous corporate and private collections. Dagens Nyheter (Sweden) and on numerous local newscasts across the country.

Michele received her BFA from California College of the Arts. She is represented by the Nancy Hoffman Gallery in New York and the Robert Berman Gallery in Los Angeles.