June 4 | Webinar Session 1 12:00 - 1:30pm "Building your Website: Goals & Mission" This session will help you create a map to your career through the web, with an emphasis on personal mission statements and the use of imaginative marketing tools. Defining ones self as an artist is a difficult task. It takes the patience to constantly redefine and edit one's achievements and goals, an understanding of your peers and crititcs, and a keen ability to explain yourself in direct and attractive terms.

1. Presents

3. The Beginning who I am…

5. Then…1998 VisionIntoArt began as a school project in 1998, with performances held in dance studios. VIA won an interdisciplinary grant from Juilliard which funded our first public performance at Lincoln Center Institute. The following year VIA went on to perform at key note performances at the Council on Foundation, North Carolina School for the Arts and Dickinson College.

6. Now…2007 VIA has performed over fifty trans-media performances in festivals, halls, museums, theaters and clubs across United States, Europe, Eastern Europe, and Mexico. VIA has commissioned fifteen new works from composers since 1999, and has performed over one hundred works by emerging and established composers of our day. VIA has additionally commissioned five poets, four visual artists, six filmmakers, six choreographers, four directors, five writers, three lighting designers, three sound designers, and has worked with over sixty musicians, actors and dancers as guests to the VIA core group, creating a truly interdisciplinary community.

40. A good newsletter: http://www.ps122.org/newsletter/ We use this: http://www.ymlpr.net/ Here is a constructive site on how to build a newsletter: http://desktoppub.about.com/od/newsletters/a/newsletter_part.htm Remember to include photographs of your activities, (we live in a highly visual world), and provide work samples with music or film, if relevant. As you develop in this profession, remember to keep people in the loop about your activities. Certain periods may be dry in terms of work, but if you continue to send emails, send newsletters, maintain a blog, make phone calls and maintain your contacts (without exaggerating!), work will always come.