Notes from the Bush Artist Fellows Retreat

[cloudscudding]

Ah, I finally get around to writing up the Bush Artist retreat highlights, from the perspective of the fly on the wall. The 2008 Bush Artist Fellows are an impressive (and photogenic) bunch. Follow that link to learn more about them and their award-winning art. As I said in my earlier post, everybody was witty and charming and talented, the

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Hope & Lifetime Learning

[ladylaurel]

Both are available for anybody. You use Hope to apply to the first 2 years of college (academically speaking, not literally) though, so it shouldn't apply I think to someone who already has a BA. Lifetime learning you can use indefinitely, but it doesn't provide as much of a credit as Hope does.

[cloudscudding]

Notes shifted here from IM so that it's all in one place I can find:

nemoren wisely says, "Note that the web style guide was written & revised 4-6 years ago."

"Another good resource, if you're trying to build a website, is the open source web design site, here: http://www.oswd.org/
You can dl a pre-made CSS page layout & modify at will."

Note to self: see also chat from today about recommended changes to website navigation.

To Do

[cloudscudding]

My vague website to-do list, from chat with nemoren, also indexed here so I can find this all in one place.

I need to hub it a bit more. An RSS feed for the news page, an easy way to get on my email list, an imbedded blog or two that can in turn be syndicated elsewhere, because I believe the future of personal websites etc. is to allow people to parse and break apart and keep what they want to follow up on in such a way that they can have the choice...ok, what I want/should do actually requires its own post.

Note to self: see today's chat for more recommended improvements.

[gunn]

Mary Leir is our Leir! She teaches at MCP!

[cloudscudding]

And well, I presume!

[gunn]

I've never taken a class from her, but I sat in on her Google metrics lecture at MCP a year ago or so, and it was pretty clever.

Hello again!

[anonymous]

Glad to read you summary again, even if I only find your blog once a year... :)

I was actually glad it was more of a conversation this year - I left last year wondering if anyone would possibly take home anything they could actually apply, but this year I think there were enough conceptual ideas that people can start mulling it over without feeling like it's too much. Who knows... I'm still waiting to get an email out of the blue from artist who's sold a piece of artwork to someone who found their blog and loved it. Someday. :)

-- Nate from the Walker

PS where are those pictures at?

Re: Hello again!

[cloudscudding]

Ha! I wondered if I'd be hearing from you again....

Yes, I think it was pitched at about the right level to that group, since most of them hadn't tried anything like that before.

Re pictures - Unfortunately, this year Julie & Kevin decided that they want to keep the pictures in-house so they can control what they're used for. No online photo-set this time. :( Of course, I think this is too bad, because people usually want to see their own photographs, and now they'll have to go out of their way to request that, and...well, yes.