Last Chance: On Stages In Stages

Posted on by April 25, 2012
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On Stages In Stages

Painting for the Theater from Parsons-Meares, LTD

Closes April 30th!

Fashion Institute ofTechnology

Gladys Marcus Library, Entrance on the Fifth Floor

Goodman Center (E Building)

Please come to see three floors of costume painting samples from Broadway, Circus, Dance, and other arena events, by Virginia Clow, Claudia Dzundza, Mary Macy, Parmelee Welles Tolkan and Margaret Peot. Two of the contributing painters are also featured in my new book, The Successful Artist’s Career Guide: Finding Your Way in the Business of Art.

 

The Art Career Project

Posted on by May 3, 2012
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Check out the Art Career Project‘s website at TheArtCareerProject.com. They offer great interviews and articles about different art careers to choose–helpful for beginners as well as mid career artists. They have explored graphic design, painting, jewelry design, framing, photography, to name a few. They provide easy to access information about art schools, too.

The Art Career Project interviewed me, too: Margaret Peot on Costume Painting and Book Writing. Check it out!

 

On Stages In Stages

Posted on by March 10, 2012
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The library at FIT is hosting an exhibition of costume painting from now until April 30th.  The exhibition opened officially yesterday, and includes not only the shadow boxes we made for Cornelia Street Cafe, but also larger samples, and some samples that are almost-ccomplete costumes.  The show is in five vitrines, and includes not only painting by Virginia Clow, Claudia Dzundza, Mary Macy, Margaret Peot and Parmelee Tolkan, but also photographs of the workroom at Parsons-Meares by FIT photographer Peter Clough.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

La Bricoleuse book review and giveaway!

Posted on by March 5, 2012
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http://labricoleuse.livejournal.com/171004.html

Rachel Pollock has reviewed The Successful Artist’s Career Guide and is hosting a book giveaway! Click on the link above to get to her wonderful blog, La Bricoleuse, and follow the instructions to enter to win a signed copy of my new book.

UNC: Spray Techniques for Costumes

Posted on by February 29, 2012
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Rachel Pollock invited me to come teach three workshops to her Costume tech classes this week. The students are uniformly amazingly talented milliners, drapers, dyers. These pictures are from our Spray Techniques class. All of the students were checked out on respirator safety, and we worked in UNC’s lovely facilities.

Everyone struggled with the preval sprayers, but enjoyed using my “old school” airbrush–a more reliable object altogether. We sprayed through laces, feathers, off of mylar stencils, using Aljo Manufacturing silk dyes mixed with gum thickener and water.

In the afternoon on the first day, I gave a slide lecture of costume painting samples, and in the evening gave a business in art lecture based upon The Successful Artist’s Career Guide: Finding Your Way in the Business of Art.

The following day I taught a class on painting on stretch and stretch velvet, using stencils, sponging, and wax. Rachel introduced me to soy wax, a wonderful odorless product which I am looking forward to using when I get back to Parsons-Meares.

 

 

Successful Artist’s Career Guide news

Posted on by February 29, 2012
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Nice article/review of The Successful Artist’s Career Guide in Metro newspapers, Philly, New York and Boston. Article by Bruce Walsh.
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CCwQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.metro.us%2FArticlePrint%2F1109546%3Flanguage%3Den&ei=arJMT_yVB86TtwfU65hO&usg=AFQjCNFkzubvvwQasL25I5zHyivoOaai7w

 

On Stages In Stages

Posted on by February 17, 2012
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On Stages In Stages

Painting for the Theater from Parsons-Meares, LTD

February 23, 2012-April 30, 2012

Fashion Institute ofTechnology

Gladys Marcus Library, Entrance on the Fifth Floor

Goodman Center (E Building)

Please come to see three floors of costume painting samples from Broadway, Circus, Dance, and other arena events, by Virginia Clow, Claudia Dzundza, Mary Macy, Parmelee Welles Tolkan and Margaret Peot. Two of the contributing painters are also featured in my new book, The Successful Artist’s Career Guide: Finding Your Way in the Business of Art.

 


Ernst Haeckel: Art Forms in Nature

Posted on by February 10, 2012
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Ernst Haeckel: Art Forms in Nature: SeescheidenErnst Haeckel (1834-1919) was a German biologist, naturalist and artist who wrote and illustrated the famous book Kunstformen Der Natur, or Art Forms In Nature. His contributions to science are great–he discovered and named many new species and added to the vocabulary of science. But this book has been used by artists for years as a valuable reference and inspiration.

(Thanks to Ann Weissmann at MBLWHOI Library, 2006)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ernst Haeckel: Discomdusae

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ernst Haeckel: Actinae: Seeanemonen

The Successful Artist’s Career Guide: Finding Your Way in the Business of Art

Posted on by January 19, 2012
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F&W Media’s North Light Books to release March 1, 2011:

The Successful Artist’s Career Guide: Finding Your Way in the Business of Art

by Margaret Peot

I am so pleased with the way this book was designed and edited by the great team and North Light Books. They took the artist interviews, stories, and advice and made them into a really useful , accessible guide for anyone who has ever wanted to make a living as a visual artist. Included are self-reflective worksheets to help remind the reader what they want to focus on, where they want to build their creative life, what kinds of art and art-related jobs might appeal to them. It also provides practical information about presenting oneself and art, pricing, bidding on a job, finding health insurance, paying taxes and more.

The Successful Artist’s Career Guide: Finding Your Way in the Business of Art is available for preorder at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, IndieBound, and the North Light Books site. Please see the “Links” tab for live links to these pages.