Category: ARTSblog
July 30th 2010 | Posted in: ARTSblog | Posted by: Lincoln Arts Council
ARTSblog by Melissa Epp- Returning from Spain: Favorite art awareness moments that will linger in my life: the Picasso museum featuring his early works until 1957, my son cooking us dinner in his apartment, my daughter’s pencil portraits of my husband and me, getting lost in a labyrinth and finding a store that specialized in hand painted masks and paper mache animals by Spanish artists. (We now own a giraffe named Barthhhhh).
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July 13th 2010 | Posted in: ARTSblog | Posted by: Lincoln Arts Council
ARTSblog by Emily Bulling- I am a dancer. Give me music and a stage and I am set free. I am comfortable and confident performing and having my choreography performed for an audience; putting your work out there and being vulnerable to criticism is an important part of the artistic process. However, just because I am confident in the performing arts realm does not make me confident in the visual arts. In fact, it is quite the opposite.
Continue reading More than just "Crafty"- A Performer's Chance to be a "Real" Visual Artist
July 2nd 2010 | Posted in: ARTSblog | Posted by: Lincoln Arts Council
ARTSblog by Jerry Hall- I retired from the Federal Government of the Veterans affairs Medical Centers as an Engineer in 2000. I joined the Lincoln Arts Council as a Volunteer in October of 2005 and have never regretted my decision.
The Lincoln Arts Council has developed my interest in the arts further. I attended the Mayor’s Arts Awards event for the past three years. In 2006, 2007 and 2008 I attended the Lincoln Arts Festival as a volunteer and visitor seeing the many great artists’ works.
Continue reading True Life: I'm an LAC Volunteer!
June 25th 2010 | Posted in: ARTSblog | Posted by: Lincoln Arts Council
ARTSBlog by Beckie Enyeart - And so the time has come… The National Arts Program Exhibit time! Every year about this time Lincoln gets to see how creative The City of Lincoln employees and their families are!
As the coordinator of the program for the last two years I’ve loaded up the back of my car with so much artwork I think my vehicle has stretched. I didn’t know the amount of stuff I 've gotten in there was possible.
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June 18th 2010 | Posted in: ARTSblog | Posted by: Lincoln Arts Council
ARTSBlog by Graham Little - You have undoubtedly heard of search engine giant Google and their array of internet-related offerings. There is, of course, their search engine that handles around 1 billion requests each day. The majority of Google's income is based around their AdWords service that delivers context sensitive ads on websites that are paid to sign up for their AdSense program. And millions of people depend on Gmail to handle their email needs. Then there are some services Google provides, free of charge, that you may not have heard of and might be of direct benefit for people working in the arts. I would encourage you to look into these services and decide if they are right for you or your organization.
Google Analytics is for anyone who has a website and wants to learn more about the web traffic they receive. The data is anonymous, and by tracking it over time and with some understanding of what that data means, this powerful tool can help you make your site the best it can be. You can learn all sorts of useful information about where your website visitors are coming from, if they visit your site directly, come from a link on another website, or found your page through a search engine. You can also get insight into the pages that they visit on your site, where they go, how long they stay, and what does work or causes them to give up.
Continue reading Put Google to Work For You
