Uploading: Image Selection for Your Website and Applications

Is your favorite image of your artwork actually the best choice for your grant application or website landing page? Selecting images for your website, social media and various applications can be overwhelming, yet even more crucial now that artwork is primarily viewed virtually. Your images represent your work to the world, and you should consider your website and social media to be your own online exhibition or showroom.

Join us for a workshop on image selection with one of Ninth Street Collective's founding members, Courtney Childress. With a decade of experience reviewing artist's images, preparing applications for fairs, aiding prospective students applying to art programs and helping galleries and artists with their websites, she will provide guidance to help you present yourself and your work in the best possible light. She will cover how to choose a cohesive set of images of past and current work, formatting images for proper display on various devices, tips on ordering your images and insight into what curators and dealers are looking for when viewing your work!

• The workshop will be hosted on Zoom. Attendees will receive a Zoom link via email.
• A portion of all proceeds will be donated to the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, America’s premier legal organization fighting for racial justice.
• Tickets: $30
• Early bird pricing: $20 through June 20 with code NSCSUMMER.

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About the Facilitator:

Courtney Childress co-founded yours mine & ours gallery in the Lower East Side of New York in 2016. Previously she was the Director of Life on Mars Gallery from 2015-2016. She worked for On Stellar Rays from 2010-2015, starting as an assistant and working her way up to Director at the gallery. During this time, seven of the artists in the gallery had major museum acquisitions and exhibitions, the gallery was written about by the New York Times, Art in America and Artforum. She has curated many exhibitions, most recently Tell Me Again by Eliot Greenwald at SPRING/BREAK Art Show, New York, NY (2019); Static Limit by Esther Ruiz at yours mine & ours, New York, NY (2017); Water Sports by Todd Bienvenu at yours mine & ours, New York, NY (2017); Touching in the Dark - Mandy Lyn Ford and Sarah Faux at yours mine & ours, New York, NY (2016); 60 Minutes at Vanity Projects, New York, NY (2015) & Vanity Projects, Miami, FL (2015); and No Name at On Stellar Rays, New York, NY (2013). Courtney has worked on independent projects with Sarah Oppenheimer, JJ PEET, Rochelle Feinstein, Joan Snyder, Julia Bland and others. She received her MFA from State University of New York at Purchase (2011); Post-Baccalaureate from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston (2009); and her BFA from the University of Alabama in (2008).

Ninth Street Collective is a group of art administrators, gallerists, curators, writers and critics who want to help artists succeed. With a focus on professional development, we offer one-on-one consultations with artists in-person and online, and serve as a hub for resources for artists. For more information about the collective and its members, please visit www.ninthstreetcollective.com.

The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. is America’s premier legal organization fighting for racial justice. Through litigation, advocacy, and public education, LDF seeks structural changes to expand democracy, eliminate disparities, and achieve racial justice in a society that fulfills the promise of equality for all Americans. LDF also defends the gains and protections won over the past 75 years of civil rights struggle and works to improve the quality and diversity of judicial and executive appointments. For more information, please visit www.naacpldf.org.