Niche
+StyleArtistic Career
Private Coaching Session with critically acclaimed
Photographic artist Aggie Villanueva,
dubbed the Grandma Moses of the American Southwest.
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Discovering niche and style is the foundation of an artistic career, yet we all seem to have great problems uncovering just what is our own style and a niche to fill.
As a freelance writer I must have heard a thousand times, "write what you know." Why, I taught that myself in my writing workshops.
I would expand that to "Write what you know and love."That is comparatively easy. I just wrote about what I loved (translate that knew). We all gravitate easily towards what we know and love. And there is no other brain that can write what formulates in our own hearts and minds.
Not so with picture-taking. When I entered the photography market I held a spanking new SLR camera, just like all other professionals use, and wondered how my picture of a landscape could be different than everyone else's.
Have you had the same trouble?
You're not alone. If you've had trouble discovering what is your own niche and style, I offer personal coaching sessions.
I'll spend one full hour on the phone with you probing what is your own niche and style.This is in addition to the time I spend time learning about you before the session.
Which brings us to your preparation.
Prior to the call, you'll need to email me several representational photos, and your resume, bio, photographer's statement, etc. Just send in whatever you have, or write them up. Don't worry about perfection. This is just so I can glimpse how you see yourself and your work, but it is a must that you send them. I'll spend time familiarizing myself with you and your work before our hour ever starts.
The hour long call is toll free.
Just contact me at the cabin, attaching all your preparations (above), after you've registered and paid (below).
Aggie's Bio: Writing since the late 70', Aggie Villanueva's first novel, Chase the Wind, Thomas Nelson 1983, was published before she was 30 and her second, Rightfully Mine, from Thomas Nelson in 1986.Villanueva freelanced throughout the 80s, also writing three craft columns and three software review columns, for national magazines. She was featured on the cover of The Christian Writer Magazine October 1983.
After teaching at writer's conferences throughout the Midwest, she founded/directed the 3-day Mid-America Fellowship of Christian Writers conferences for four years until 1990. Photographic art entered by 2007, and within two years Villanueva was dubbed the Grandma Moses of the American Southwest by her artistic peers, and is represented in several online and walk-in art galleries across the nation.
Review of Discover Your Niche & Style by ImageKind.comYour Niche or Style?
Empty Easel published a very interesting article today about discovering your artistic niche and style. Emily referenced it in one of our forum discussions. I found it particularly insightful for all artists to consider.
It got me thinking, do most artists even consider having a particular niche or style? How do these two ideas correlate with an artistic brand?The author, Aggie Villanueva, defines them in a very concise way. She mentions how finding her niche was relatively easy but that finding her style was a bit more challenging. However, as she contemplated her photos one day, a moment of inspiration struck her and she was able to discover her own particular style as well. With that she concludes:
Your niche is what you know
but…
Your style is what you love
Critically acclaimed in the June 19, 2008 issue of the Rio Grande Sun:..."Villanueva is one of those rare individuals who uses new technology...to take a digital image to a new and exciting level....With some photographers this digitizing and manipulation are evident and stumbling...not so with Villanueva's work, which is sophisticated and well thought out....She has a knack for transferring her impression of a scene to the viewer that is remarkable and almost magical."As Aggie states; "The Fairy Trail is real, folks. Welcome To My Path."
An interview from the Mobile Press Register by Thomas B. Harrison begins: "She is known as the "Grandma Moses of the American Southwest," and the nickname fits as comfortably as a well-worn pair of jeans. Aggie Villanueva is a self-taught artist, a grandmother and something of a folk hero to anyone who opts to pursue a new vocation later in life."
