Part time Opening - ART DEPARTMENT

We are a Promotional Products company in search of a knowledgeable and enthusiastic candidate for our Graphic Artist Position. Your responsibilities would include setting up pre-production art proofs on templates for our customers, as well as preparing print-ready vector files for our suppliers. You will also have to recreate some logos. Must be an Illustrator and Photoshop PRO! Experience in the field or a related degree are preferred. This is a small office and we all pitch in. As such, this position also entails light customer service and the maintenance of our website and social media sites. We are PC based and do not offer health insurance. If you are creative, dependable, a problem solver and a team player, we would love to hear from you! Please email us a copy of your resume AND a brief cover letter that includes your salary expectations and why you might be a good addition to our team to kay911@att.net. Hours would be daily Mon-Friday, during the day, approximately 30 hours per week.

Call for Art - Vogt Center

The Vogt Visual Arts Center

Call For Artists

    Theme – What do you love?

Exhibit Dates – February 3^rd- 27^th 2014

Whatever it is that you love,

we want you to share it with us.

–                   This show is not juried and there are no fees

–                   Any size or medium

–                   Open to all ages and abilities

–                   Up to three pieces of non objectionable art per person

–                   Framed work MUST BE WIRED for hanging

–                   Pieces must be labeled with artist name, phone #, medium, title and price (if applicable) work does not have to be for sale.

–                  Artwork needs to be delivered to the gallery January 27^th – 30^th 

–                  Please notify Julie Dekker @ 708-309-4371 if you wish to participate and to set up a drop off time.

The Vogt Visual Arts Center is located ½ block east of Oak Park Ave. at 174^th St. Phone (708) 614-6503 or (708) 309-4371. Regular gallery hours are

Tuesdays 7 – 9 P.M. Wednesdays 4 – 7 P.M. Thursdays 11 – 2 and 7 – 9 P.M. and Fridays 11 – 3 P.M.  Saturdays 11 – 4 P.M.

–                   All other times are by appointment only.

 Admission is always free !

2015 Society of Illustrators Student Competition

The 2015 Society of Illustrators Annual National Student Scholarship Competition.

There is over $50,000.00 in scholarship winnings ranging from $100.00 to $5000.00 per piece of art.

Students/Graduates can enter any artwork done as a class assignment in any media or style including digital that has been done within the last academic year of school. (January 2014-December 2014) The school will pay for each student’s submissions up to five per student, so plan to submit your best work. 

Approximately 200 pieces will be accepted in this year’s national competition. If a piece is selected in the preliminary judging, the original artwork will be requested for final review and awards selection. Digital prints are only accepted for digitally created works and must not exceed 18” x 24”. Student transcripts will be provided for all students accepted into the show to prove that you are a student at the Academy. Any work accepted will be printed in a full color catalog and exhibited in New York at the Society. In addition this year, any accepted work into the show would need to be framed and wired for hanging. The student artwork submissions will all be uploaded through a school administrator from the Academy. Students cannot upload entries individually. The work will be uploaded and submitted as an entire group by myself, as Co-Chair of the Illustration Department at the American Academy of Art.

Each image uploaded for jurying must be 72 dpi, RGB, JPEG at 1000 pixels wide on its longest side if it is horizontal or 800 pixels wide if it is vertical. You must e-mail me your attached images no later than Wednesday, January 28th. (The earlier you do this the better.) 

E-mail: rkryczka@comcast.net

Subject: Society of Illustrators Submissions

Please include in your e-mail:
•The Title of the Piece
•The name of the instructor whose class you did the piece in
•The Medium you did the piece


Calendar
No later than, Wednesday, January 28th.
Save images at: 72 dpi, RGB, JPEG at 1000 pixels on its longest side if the image is horizontal and 800 pixels wide if it is vertical.

Thursday, January 29th
All entries will be uploaded and submitted by the Co-Chair of Illustration by 4pm.

Call for Art - Dick Blick

Internships - SPM Marketing

SPM Marketing - Summer Internships

Summer Account Management Interns
This is a go-getter position, not a go-get-coffee one. You must be interested in advertising as a career, a multi-tasker (you’re probably doing 3 other things while you read this), a team player, good with details, and calm under pressure. You’ll be working directly with our creative teams (so you have to be fun) and our hospital clients (so you have to be nice). Not only is this a great way to learn the ins and outs of an ad agency, many of our past account interns now collect an SPM paycheck full-time.

Summer Copywriter and Art Director InternsWe are looking for art directors and copywriters. Your title will be intern but your work won’t be. You’ll be doing creative advertising for hospitals all over the U.S. In just 12 weeks you’ll gain experience in TV, print, radio, and interactive. Our past interns have described the experience as invaluable and many of them landed a full-time job with us.  You must specify Art Director or Copywriter in the message body, and include a link or attachment with your creative portfolio.

Summer Media Planning InternDetail-oriented? Great at multitasking? Able to schmooze with the best of them? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then our Media Planning internship is the position for you! Working on a team commonly referred to as "a force to be reckoned with," our media intern will experience the ins and outs of strategic media planning and development and learn the resources necessary to launch campaigns seen nationwide (we don't mean to gloat).

Click HERE for more information.

Talking Tips for Creatives

Announcement from Chicago Creative Coalition (C3) 

Your Work Does Not Speak for Itself
 Talking Tips for Creatives with Catherine Johns, radio legend and career coach

Your work is meaningful, even magnificent. And it’s tempting to think clients will “get it” without much input from you. Sadly, that website, photograph or video does not speak for itself. You need to speak for your work and about your work. And it helps if you speak with power and presence.

Discover how to do exactly that in this program with Catherine Johns, speaker, coach and author of "Show Up and Shine: Simple Steps to Boost Your Confidence and Charisma."
Catherine Johns works with business owners and professionals who want to get more clients, have more impact, and make more money by speaking about what they do in a way that makes people say “Oh Wow!” instead of “ho hum.”

Yes, you may remember Catherine from her career in Chicago radio alongside legends like Larry Lujack, Fred Winston and John Landecker. Since she broke out of the broadcasting boys’ club, Catherine’s been coaching entrepreneurs to develop the skills – and the confidence – to take their place at the front of the room and raise their revenue through the roof.

This program is the first in a series on how to creatively present yourself and your work.

Thursday, January 15, 2015
6:30 p.m. – networking and noshing
7:00 p.m. – Program–the fun begins!

Various Things Live
2443 N. Clybourn Ave.
Chicago

Street parking available. Beer, wine and noshes will be served.

$10 admission for members of C3, APA, ASMP, ChiCPUG, Chicago Web Pros, CWIP, Graphic Artists Guild, & IWOC.
$20 general admission
$5 student admission
 Reserve your spot today! http://www.chicagocreative.org/your-work-does-not-speak-for-itself/