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• Why go to Conferences? Are they worth it?

  
  Ask Harriete — Authority: 114
  A question from an artist and reader, "While reading the ACC Conference lecture reviews, I was wondering how the conference is affecting you as an artist?" Good question! Ill bet other people are wondering too! Similar questions arose from a...
  1 week ago

• Make a Living Riding the Long Tail - Part 2

  
  Ask Harriete — Authority: 114
  There are three major insights following the ACC Conference that seemed to be most relevant to making a viable livelihood from your art and craft. They are: 1) The impact of the Internet and shifting marketing channels, 2) The evolution...
  4 weeks ago

• Make a Living Riding the Long Tail - Part 1

  
  Ask Harriete — Authority: 114
  There were many insightful and provocative presentations at the 2009 ACC Conference. After thinking about all that went on, I want to focus on three major insights that seemed to be most relevant to making a viable livelihood from your...
  4 weeks ago

• Make a Living Riding the Long Tail - Part 3

  
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  Bringing Value and Commitment to a Community This is the third and final post on three major insights from the ACC Conference that seemed to be most relevant to make a viable livelihood from your art and craft. The first...
  4 weeks ago

• Creating a New Craft Culture

  
  Lynette Andreasen — Authority: 115
  Ive had intentions of doing a post about my trip to the American Craft Council Conference for weeks now, and have finally realized that I just dont have time (my thesis is 4 months away, every minute counts right now!) to write the quality of post I was hoping for. So, instead of telling you all about the ...
  5 weeks ago

• Long Tail - Blockbuster versus Netflix, and the art/craft world.

  
  Ask Harriete — Authority: 114
  On October 24, 2009 (my birthday) I posted a review of the panel discussion at the ACC Conference titled, "Riding the Long Tail: Marketing Craft on the Internet." That post offered this definition: The "long tail" is a catchphrase about...
  5 weeks ago

• ACC Conference - Why the ACC is more famous for football than craft?

  
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  The Devil Inside Brooch, Recycled tin cans, Harriete Estel Berman A rude awakening. When I told a distant relative that I was blogging for the ACC Conference she was blown-away impressed, shocked, surprised!!!!!.....until she found out it was not THE...
  5 weeks ago

• ACC Conference - An Opinion from Wendy Rosen

  
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  Only one person has taken me up on the offer to use my blog to continue a conversation started at the 2009 ACC Conference. Wendy Rosen requested that her response to Garth Clark’s lecture be posted here for your review...
  6 weeks ago

• ACC Conference: An INDEX to the lectures from ASK Harriete

  
  Ask Harriete — Authority: 114
  The organization of the ACC Conference 2009 was like going to a concert. Each lecture progressed to the next like a rising crescendo. The sequence resonated from beginning to end. Each day began with a book author opening the conversation...
  6 weeks ago

• ACC Conference: Sonya Clark - “Craft as Subject, Verb and Object”

  
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  BACKGROUND: I have been familiar with Sonya Clarks work since being in a show with her at the Museum of Contemporary Craft in Portland, Oregon titled, Manufractured: The Conspicuous Transformation of Everyday Objects. We each also have a chapter about...
  6 weeks ago

• ACC Conference: Garth Clark - “The Case for Conservativism”

  
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  BACKGROUND: Whenever I see Garth Clark, I cant help but think of his controversial and thought-provoking presentation that he gave for the Museum of Contemporary Craft in Portland, Oregon titled, “How Envy Killed the Crafts,”. You can find a link...
  6 weeks ago

• ACC Conference: Lydia Matthews -"New Models in the Marketplace"

  
  Ask Harriete — Authority: 114
  The description of Lydia Matthews lecture in the ACC Conference catalog sounds like a collection of "fun to hear phrases" that leaves the listener impressed that something important will be said, but you sure cant figure out what it will...
  6 weeks ago

• ACC Conference: Robin Petravic - “Good Design + Good Craft = Good Sense: The Story of Heath Ceramics”

  
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  The last lecture on Saturday morning was by Robin Petravic titled, “Good Design + Good Craft = Good Sense: The Story of Heath Ceramics”. The previous lecture about the industrial design profession was the perfect preface as Robin Petravic and...
  6 weeks ago

• ACC Conference: Julie Lasky - “Men in White”

  
  Ask Harriete — Authority: 114
  Julie Lasky did a great job with the technical aspects of her presentation using film clips and wonderful images of the design industry to illustrate her program, Men in White. She showed numerous symbols and metaphors that were quite interesting...
  6 weeks ago

• ACC Conference: Riding the ‘Long Tail’: Marketing Craft on the Internet

  
  Ask Harriete — Authority: 114
  Do you know what the "long tail" is? The "long tail" is a catchphrase about how the Internet enables consumers to easily find and connect with relatively obscure and widely dispersed suppliers. It allows anyone, anywhere, with unusual interests or...
  6 weeks ago

• ACC Conf.: Rob Walker - “Handmade 2.0”

  
  Ask Harriete — Authority: 114
  Imagine my astonishment, WOW!, to see an image of this pin up on the big screen as people walked into the lecture room on Saturday morning. Actually I made this pin a year ago as a present for Rob Walker...
  7 weeks ago

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