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Artist Bootcamp: Elevator Pitch, Finding Opportunity, & Building Your Career

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Adults, Adults 55+
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We will deep into exploring how to create more opportunities for a successful career and what resources exist in the art world to do it.  We'll also develop an elevator pitch for presenting our work.

Respected journalist, popular Instagrammer, and the former longtime editor of ARTnews, Robin Cembalest trains arts professionals to communicate effectively across all editorial channels.

Over 16 years at the helm of ARTnews, she shepherded the century-old magazine into the digital era, expanding its content and training generations of interns, writers, and editors.

In 2014, she launched her business Robin Cembalest Editorial Strategies, helping art-world clients to design and implement mission-based content. She teaches professional development workshops in writing, social media, and other essential skills at art schools, residencies, museums, and professional organizations, and independently on Eventbrite.

An award-winning writer who has published widely in the art and mainstream press, Cembalest is best known today as @rcembalest, handle of her Instagram and Twitter feeds.