In this issue of our newsletter:
If you're going to do it, do it right!
"Be a professional in whatever you do; the tale is told by the effectiveness of the product on its viewers and intended public."
- L. Ron Hubbard
ART, Chapter 4: Art in its Basics
Message from the Director
Effective Management Association Artists USA is dedicated to helping artists flourish and prosper. As stated by L. Ron Hubbard, “The artist has an enormous role in the enhancement of today’s and the creation of tomorrow’s reality.” No matter how talented, artists seldom make their living and receive fair exchange for their artistic works unless they have workable administrative and organizational tools to fall back on. With fierce competition in the art marketplace today, understanding marketing and promotion is also vital to success. That’s exactly where EMA Artists USA comes in. I urge you to become part of our movement. Read the successes below from our artist members so you can find out how much being a part of this team has benefited them in their artist endeavors.
– Leisa Collins
Featured Artist of the Month: Playwright Curt Strickland
Curt recently took home the award for Best Play in the Pend Orielle Short Play Theater Festival. In addition to writing plays, Curt writes political essays and social commentary. He is also a landscape photographer, and a former owner at Great American Art, one of the largest commercial art companies in the nation.
Curt Strickland
YOU RECENTLY WON BEST PLAY AT THE PEND ORIELLE SHORT PLAY THEATER FESTIVAL. TELL US A LITTLE ABOUT THAT.
There were 80 submissions from around the globe. Eight were chosen to be produced, including mine, each play with its own actors and director. They rehearsed for three or four weeks and presented each play before a live audience three consecutive nights, in addition to its being lived streamed.
And the audience voted my play, Speed Dating, "best play." It was both gratifying and humbling, the impact it had on the audiences.
WHAT IMPACT ARE YOU TRYING TO ACHIEVE AS A PLAYWRIGHT?
I consider art a Fourth Dynamic activity. As artists, we have a responsibility to impact society, to impel action, promote healing. As part of the EMA artists group, we all work on our admin scales as a vehicle to expand our impact and reach as artists. As a playwright, this is my Valuable Final Product:
“A well-crafted play that has an emotional and thought-provoking impact, ignites action, is laced with prophecies, and serves as a vehicle for healing.”
I am inspired by a few quotes from L. Ron Hubbard in Science of Survival:
“The artist has an enormous role in the enhancement of todays and the creation of tomorrow’s reality…. The elevation of a culture can be measured directly by the number of its people working in the field of aesthetics.” (Page 480)
“Because the artist deals in future realities, he always seeks improvements or changes in the existing reality. This makes the artist, inevitably and invariably a rebel against the status quo. The artist, day by day, by postulating the new realities of the future, accomplishes peaceful revolution." (Page 481)
Mr. Hubbard has some strong opinions about artists, and their role in society. I take that responsibility seriously. In other words, I strive to be a professional in my craft. When I write, I seek to impel, inspire action, using the power of art to heal, inspire, provoke, challenge, offer hope, and most of all—to remind us of our common humanity.
TELL US MORE ABOUT YOUR FUTURE PLANS.
Stories are the sacred offerings that nourish a culture, a nation. The soul of a nation resides in its stories. Ken Burns said, “stories liberate us from the tyrannies of the past.”
Inspired by one of America’s premier playwrights, August Wilson, I am working on a ten-play saga on America, it’s triumphs and tragedies, its heroes and villains. These are plays that seek to unearth and celebrate the nobility of the American character, asking the question, who are we?
My stories are about people straining for union, connections, justice. They are stories about discovering our shared humanity, with noble, heroic men and women, fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, all striving for a more perfect union.
And finally, these are stories about things we believe in but can’t see: faith, hope, dreams and the soul.
BEING ONE OF THE EARLY MEMBERS OF THE EMA ARTISTS GROUP, WHY DO YOU THINK ARTISTS SHOULD JOIN THIS UNIQUE GROUP?
Since this group was started, the level of production of each member is off the charts. We hold each other accountable. It serves as a sanctuary for our collective souls, saturated in validation and affirmation for our beingness as artists.
You can read more about Curt and his art on his website: CurtsView.com.
Artists in Action
Rachel Rausch-Johnson
Rachel is a portrait and event photographer in the Portland Metro area. She's been a photographer for 25 years. And she believes that photography is magic.
Rachel says, "I have truly enjoyed being a part of a group of artists who are all working towards creative and financial success. We meet every week and I get to see the other artists actually winning. My business is also benefiting from implementing the Hubbard Management Technology. And I love how we support each other, too."
Above you can see one of Rachel's fabulous portraits, and also a shot of the artist at work. Learn more about Rachel on her website, RachelRauschPhotography.com.
Astrid Reeves
Astrid's vibrant interpretation of the world around her is expressed in her bold paintings, which capture the lively colors and swirling abstract forms of nature itself.
Astrid has been active in many local art shows with great success. Below you can see her with her booth at the Fairfax Funky Flea show in Fairfax, VA back in July. This was her jumping off point and she has enjoyed participating in a number of shows since then all over Northern Virginia. Her next show is on Saturday, November 12, 2022 in the artsy Del Ray district in Alexandria, VA.
Learn more about Astrid and her art at her website: AstridsArtStudio.com.
On the Lighter Side
EMA Artists core team member, Steve Gill, has spent the last 40 years making people laugh through creating endearing work such as this. He has worked as a professional artist throughout these years, with much of the time spent traveling on his bus to shows all over the United States.
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DEFINITIONS:
Fourth Dynamic: the dynamics are the urge to survive, expressed through a spectrum, with eight divisions. These are urges for survival as or through (1) self; (2) sex, the family and the future generations; (3) groups; (4) Mankind; (5) life, all organisms; (6) matter, energy, space and time - the physical universe; (7) spirits; and (8) infinity or the Supreme Being.
Valuable Final Product: a product that can be exchanged with other activities in return for support. It is valuable because it is potentially or factually exchangeable.
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