Dear EBOS Artists,

We are alive and well and ready to move into a new phase for the East Bay Open Studios.

Hello!

My name is Carolyn Quan and I am honored to be the new Producer of the East Bay Open Studios.

It is with much gratitude and excitement that I have accepted this role. First and foremost, I want to especially thank ProArts for giving me this opportunity to serve the community of which I am also a member of and that I care deeply about.

I wanted to reach out at this time to introduce myself and to outline the general plan moving forward so that you have a basic idea of what is going to take place.

For those of you who may not have read my bio in the ProArts newsletter. I have included it at the bottom of this newsletter so you can learn about my professional background and my skill set and qualifications for the role that I have taken on. I am a working fine artist myself and have a deep understanding of artists and our needs. I also have an extensive background in marketing and communications coupled with strong organizational skills.

I will be meeting with and consulting with a number of my advisors which include professional artists, open studio producers, artist advocates, art collectors and business consultants to determine how the event will be modified for 2017. I have also read all of the feedback forms from the 2016 event and will take it all into consideration moving forward. There is a lot to digest and process at this time.

We will be developing the new visual branding of the event, the website, event schedule, participation details, etc. throughout November and securing a venue for our Opening Celebration and Preview Exhibition. We are aiming for December for the launch of the new website for the 2017 event. The Call for Artists will begin sometime thereafter. Announcements will be made through these newsletters.

The EBOS event will continue to take place in June, but at this time the exact dates have yet to be determined. Some aspects of the event will be modified and some aspects will stay the same.

I hope that many, if not all of you, will choose to participate in the 2017 event and make this rebirth one to truly celebrate.

With gratitude and respect, Carolyn Quan

P.S. I have just finished setting up our new EBOS Facebook page and would love to have you all connect with us there, so we can begin to build our social media exposure from today forward. Please invite all of your Bay Area Facebook friends, especially the art lovers and collectors, to join us!
Here's the link - Facebook.com/EastBayOpenStudios

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Carolyn Quan • Producer/Artist • East Bay Open Studios
(415) 450-1307 • EastBayOpenStudios@gmail.com

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Carolyn Quan is an award-winning, internationally-collected Fine Artist and has over 30 years of experience working in the Commercial Design and Fine Art industries as a Graphic Designer, Art Director, Fine Art Gallery Owner, Magazine and Art Guide Publisher (including the Mission, SoMa and Oakland Art Guides), Professional Fine Artist and Open Studio Event Producer.

She and her art have been featured in over 20 publications nationwide as well as radio and television in Hawaii. As an Art Director in the 80s/90s, she worked with some of the recording industries most celebrated artists including Grateful Dead, Aretha Franklin, Eurythmics, Yes, Hall and Oates, Barry Manilow, and countless others. Her fine art photo collages have won her 11 American Art Awards and two of her collages are held in the permanent collection of art at the Kinsey Institute for Sex, Gender, and Reproduction in Bloomington, IN. Her art is and has been acquired by art collectors from around the world from Australia to Japan.

She currently produces and organizes the Annual Maui Open Studios Event and the Annual Toronto Art Blast, which is Toronto’s First City-Wide Open Studios Event. She is an artist advocate and also teaches a professional development workshop for artists called “It Takes More Than Talent - 20 Ways to Boost Your Career as a Fine Artist" and mentors emerging and mid-career artists.

In between producing open studio events, she travels the western and southwestern states showing and selling her artwork at fine art festivals. She is the recipient of the Award of Merit, in the Photography category, at the 33rd Annual La Quinta Arts Festival, which is considered one of the most prestigious art festivals in the U.S.

For more information about Carolyn's artwork and more detailed biography, please visit her website at CarolynQuan.com

To visit Carolyn's LinkedIn profile, please visit this link - linkedin.com/in/carolyn-quan