Milwaukee Sketch Club: Artist Workshop Association

To whom it may concern,

Greetings. I hope that this finds you well, I’m reaching out on behalf of the Artist Workshop Association in the hopes of partnering with the Milwaukee Sketch Club .

We at the AWA have organized a series of artists’ workshops with the goal of providing these opportunities annually to artists across the country. Further, we’ve designed these workshops so that our partner organizations benefit as well. As outlined below, the idea here is to allow you to offer some excellent learning experiences for your community without having to organize traveling to the destination yourself.

In short: the AWA workshops can be offered as a great addition to your regular workshop and paint out offerings without any extra burden on you- no minimum enrollment, no hiring instructors, no organizing and booking lodging, etc.

Since we partner with local organizations across the country, even if only a one member of your community is interested in our workshops, they now have the opportunity to join us. For each member of your community that does participate, we’ll give you $100. Alternatively, it seems that you may be a group of artists, so if you would prefer, we could instead offer a discount of $100 to your members.

In 2019 we’ve organized a series of artist’s workshops:

-Jun 11- July 6 Perugia, Italy
-Aug. 10-18 Portland and the Oregon Coast Plein Air
-Oct. 5-13 Hudson Valley Plein Air

For the Perugia program we’ve partnered with the Hudson Valley Art Association to offer scholarships for young artists aged 18-24. This offering is actually a series of eight different workshops taught by eight different artists in everything from portrait painting in oils to plein air watercolors.

I’ve attached the itineraries for all three 2019 workshops so that you can look over them. You can also visit us online: www.awatrips.com and on FB and IG: @awatrips

As an artist and educator who has taught in both collegiate and community art center settings, I know that the task of organizing these types of opportunities often isn’t feasible for local organizations that may not have a large enough community to support such an endeavor, even if there is interest within the community.

This issue is what inspired the creation of AWA. We’ve organized some fantastic itineraries and workshops led by some amazing artists, and we take care of all of the logistics. We cover all bookings, on-ground transportation, payment collection, and perhaps most importantly from your point of view: insurances and liabilities are our responsibilities.

Truly, all that is required of the local organizations we partner with is that you share these opportunities with your community. Then, as mentioned above, when artists register- they’ll enter the referring school/organization, and for every member of your community that joins a workshop we’ll send you $100.

Also, we have the 2019 workshops staffed, but we are planning to rotate not only the locations but instructors as well, so perhaps we can explore having a member of your faculty lead a future workshop or organizing a local event- there are lots of options.

I have tried to be as thorough but as brief as possible in this email. Of course, if you have any questions, I would be happy to answer them. Feel free to respond to this email or call me at the number in my signature below.

I look forward to hearing back from you and hope that we can partner and share these opportunities with your community.

Regards,
James

James Adkins

Program Director
Artist Workshop Association
443-880-0011
www.awatrips.com

Instagram: @AWATRIPS

Facebook: @AWATRIPS

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note from: From: Thomas Piedt <piedt1@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 9:53 AM
Subject: Partnering to Offer Artist Workshops AWA

Morning everyone

Recently I forwarded an email offering a few art enrichment opportunities. This was a long complicated email to our group so for clarification:

The AWA (Artist Workshop Association) will provide sketch club members a $100 discount on the art enrichment opportunities listed in the forwarded email. Interested parties should let the AWA know you're a member of the Milwaukee Sketch Club to receive the discount.

Tom

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