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Ten-week Getting Your Sh*t Together workshops are held twice a year simultaneously at Side Street Projects (Pasadena, CA) and at CalArts (Valencia, CA). Side Street Projects, a non-profit also founded by Karen Atkinson, currently offers additional new GYST classes on grant writing, critique groups, and web design. Sign up for all SSP workshops on their website: http://www.sidestreet.org/
 
Additionally, GYST does custom tailored workshops regionally and nationally at your local nonprofit.
 
Workshops have been held at cities across the country and more are in the works.

Upcoming Workshops:
 
Getting Your Sh*t Together
The Ultimate Career Bootcamp for Artists: Los Angeles Workshop

Registration for the Spring Semester Getting Your Sh*t Together Workshop at The Eagle Rock Center for The Arts begins now. If you are anywhere the LA area and are looking to kick-start your art career, get organized, and learn just about everything it takes to make it in the art world, then this class is just what you've been looking for.

Sign up TODAY. This class fills up very fast.

To register call the Center For The Arts, Eagle Rock.
323.226.1617. They will process your registration.
For more information visit:
http://www.gyst-ink.com/services/workshops.php#enroll
or email tucker@gyst-ink.com

About the Class:

Getting Your Sh*t Together
The Ultimate Career Boot Camp for Artists.

Duration: Mondays (7pm - 9pm) April 20 – June 8
+ Curator Review Saturday (10am-2pm) June 13

Location:
The Eagle Rock Center for the Arts
2225 Eagle Rock Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90041
www.centerartseaglerock.org

Tuition: $250 (includes GYST software)

Created by artist, curator, and legendary CalArts professor Karen Atkinson, Getting Your Sh*t Together (GYST) is the often-imitated workshop for emerging artists, and for artists who've been "emerging" longer than they expected. Over 400 artists have graduated from GYST since 2002 and their continued success and contributions to the art world are what gives GYST such a great reputation.

GYST teaches you the business stuff you should have learned in art school, but didn't. GYST values self-sufficiency and presents you with information, skills, and strategies to make things happen without necessarily waiting around for some arbiter of culture to validate your work. We're not concerned with producing slick, commercialized artists, nor is this some new age, touchy-feely "find your inner artist" crap. GYST is a program for artists, by artists that will teach you bare-knuckled, practical strategies for negotiating the baffling terrain of the contemporary art world.

Over 8-weeks, you'll create and refine your "presentation package," artist statement, bio, resume, portfolio, and more, with the full editorial and technical support of GYST staff. And learn a DIY approach to your career.

GYST culminates with Curator Speed Dating. Get real-world feedback on your portfolio and proposals from some of the area's hottest curators. Past curators have been LA Times Art Critic David Pagel, LACE Director Carol Stakenaus, and Christopher Russell from the Getty Research Institute.

Students also get a complimentary copy of the new GYST software, which usually retails for $149. The MAC and PC based program is packed with all the organizing tools and information resources every artist needs.

SUCCESS STORIES

In just the past 2 years, our workshop alumni have won over $18,000 in grants, multiple grants from the City of Pasadena.

"Two weeks after finishing GYST, I had a studio visit from Robert Berman. Because I had recently gotten my sh*t together, I was able to send him a portfolio before the visit. I think it really helped - he offered me a solo show. Thanks, GYST! Really, thank you. I mean it."

- Alumni Cameron Gray had his first solo show (ever) in 2007 at the renowned Robert Berman Gallery and sold several large canvases. He's currently represented by Berman’s Gallery.

-Just last year, GYST Alumni Ari Kletzky was the subject of an extensive article on the front page of the LA Times Sunday Arts section. His featured Islands of LA project was developed over the course of our GYST workshop. Kletzky (who has a BA in business) recently quit his day-job at a loan agency and currently is enrolled in Cal Art’s Fine Arts MFA program.


GYST Ink is an artist run company committed to empowering and educating artists so that they can take control of their practice and develop successful and sustainable careers on their own terms. For more information visit www.gyst-ink.com

WORKSHOPS AND LECTURES HAVE BEEN HELD AT:
 
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Boston Lawyers for the Arts, Boston, MA
California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), Valencia, CA
California Lawyers for the Arts, Santa Monica, CA
Chaffey College, Alta Loma, CA
College Art Association Conference
Los Angeles County Arts Commission Arts Tune Ups
Louisiana Artworks, New Orleans, LA
Side Street Projects, Pasadena, CA (2002 - 2008)
Technology and the Arts Conference, Pittsburg, PA
San Francisco Art Institute
Women and Their Work, Austin, TX

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