Have you voted for your favourite AA2A artist of 2011/12?

- Voting is easy: every artist's profile page on this site has a link to 'vote for this artist' or you can go directly to the voting page here: http://aa2a.org/artistvote

- Voting closes at the end of May

- You can vote for any of this year's artists from any college, whether it's because you like their work in college or online or just that they are good at involving students and communicating their knowledge and enthusiasm.

- The winning artists will be promoted on our Websites and Pages, and the Students’ choice will have their project featured in London at the AA2A College Briefing Day.

- The student vote is for students at participating AA2A colleges (there's also a 'Public Vote' for students from other colleges or members of the public - including artists and college staff).

If you've already voted, please encourage your friends!

Thanks

Georgia

We have produced our first attempt at a 'screencast' aimed at helping new Dotbiz users get started using the site.

We now have RSS feed available on all blogs on Dotbiz! RSS (Really Simple Syndication) allows you to easily read blogs in a standardised format and you can also subscribe to an RSS feed.

From any Dotbiz user's profile page (whether artist, student, college or AA2A staff) you'll see under their blog posts on the right hand side 'RSS' - selecting this will take you to the RSS feed for this Dotbiz user and may also give you options to subscribe.  You may want to use this to promote your blog by suggesting people subscribe to your RSS feed.

Best wishes

Georgia

Hi AA2A artists, students and other project fans!

Just to let you know we now have three different AA2A newsletters:

• Artists newsletter  (currently for artists on the scheme now also available as a podcast!)

• Students newsletter  (news on reps, student voting and artists/student interaction highlights)

and just out we have the:

• General newsletter  (going out to our mailing list with a biannual roundup of project news)

Enjoy and don't forget to keep us updated on your news!

Georgia

Hi AA2A Artists of 2011-12

We're working on the latest Artists newsletter and will be emailing it out to you within the next week. As well as the latest project news the newsletter has an update on fundraising, info about scheme length, claiming artists budgets, voting, student reps and more...

If you haven't received the newsletter from us within the next week please get in touch (you can message me through the site)

Georgia
AA2A National Coordinator

Hi AA2A Artists 2011/12!

I'll start by properly introducing myself, I'm the AA2A national coordinator and I work part-time on the project with Wendy Mason (AA2A national director) and Jim Pledger (AA2A administrator). I'm also a practising artist, based in London, I work mostly in sculpture, performance and film.

Well that's enough about me, now you! It is an absolute pleasure to manage this website and see day to day the new image albums and blogs you're putting up.  Thank you if you've already started sharing your work, and if you haven't yet we look forward to seeing your work soon.  If you're already in college do let people know they can see your work on this site.  Also if you put work up  onto the site you're in with a chance of being our 'Pic of the Week' on the AA2A Twitter and Facebook pages (our weekly posts showcasing work from the AA2A Dotbiz networking site).  We have to tell you we've been absolutely spoilt for choice!  Have a look at this week's:
AA2A Twitter     AA2A Facebook

If you have any trouble with image albums, have a read through Wendy's help blog:   Wendy's image album help blog  If you're still having trouble just email/message us.

More about voting soon but if you'd like to see the winning AA2A artists of last year (as voted for by students/public) they now each have a feature on our other website:  Artists Features

Best wishes

Georgia
Email:  georgia@aa2a.biz

Hi AA2A artists

Did you know that if your work has appeared in a-n, Crafts (and most other magazines) you are entitled to money!...

"Any visual work that has been published in a UK book or magazine that has an ISBN/ISSN/Barcode number on it is valid for inclusion in a Payback claim. This is even if that work is included in an advert."

You may already claim but just in case this is all new to you, I would encourage you to register with DACs and see if you can claim as it really is 'money for nothing'!  

The last day for claiming for this year is Friday 9th Sept 2011.   

If you've got any questions - please contact DACs directly: payback@dacs.org.uk

Best wishes

Georgia

BIG THANKS to the AA2A student reps!

There have been some glowing comments about students reps from the artists evaluations, so we'd like to thank them for all the work they've done this year, both in college and on this website. 

Don't forget students (and the public) can still vote for their favourite AA2A artist of 2010/11 until the end of the week

Best wishes

Georgia

Hi AA2A Artists,

Last chance to vote!

If you are still working/exhibiting in your AA2A college please could you encourage students to vote? Direct them to this site and every artists page has 'vote for this artist'.  They can vote for any artist on the scheme this year; you don't have to ask them to vote for you - although you can if you want!  Students who vote currently stand a pretty good chance of winning our prize draw, so there's something in it for them and it also really helps us spread the word about the scheme.

Public vote is also still open - don't forget you can vote for other artists too and you're welcome to tell people about that too/promote on your facebook page/your blog/twitter etc.

CLICK HERE TO GO TO VOTING PAGE

Happy voting!

Georgia