Expert: Valerie Zwart - 11/2/2007

Question
Dear Sir!

My name is Anastasia Ponyatovskaya, I am artist.

I am intrested to make some art /exhibitions /show . I am opened for co-operations!
Also,
I am searching for a visual art agent /  promouter.
Maybe You can reccomend  to me somebody who is interested to promote me, please.
I work on batik and Oil & Watercolors painting, book illustrations, tempera, pastel.
if you have some information could you  send it to me? I am looking forward to receive an answer from you.

Sincerely yours,
Anastasia
http://arteforte.net
+35699077991

Answer
There's no shortage of artists agents. But no one is better motivated to do this than you are. I've taken a look at your site and I think you need to decide for yourself first where you'd like to work and which of your strands of work you'd like to promote. Research your market in the location you'd like to work in and start making e-contacts with artists with whom you'd like to work/with whom you have some kind of aesthetic affinity (look at their work and CV and see if there's a project/idea which suggests itself and that you'd like to develop with him/her), galleries (again see if they carry similar - but not too similar, obviously - work), and agents, if you're still inclined to go that way. Don't send links to your site, just send a few small jpegs. And send a follow up email to check if they've actually received your initial email, as some spam filters won't admit unknown emails with images in them. Some useful links:
international residencies and cooperations and opportunities:
http://www.transartists.nl/news/deadlines.html
and there's lots on the following site:
http://www.a-n.co.uk/cgi-bin/db2www.exe/home.d2w/input

There are loads of other sites offering information to emerging artists, but you'll have to narrow down your inquiry in order not to get bogged down in information and opportunities.

Best of luck,
V