GYST offers a variety of products and services including the 2.8 debut of our computer software, which guides artists through the world of the art business. Available for Windows PC (including Vista) and Mac (including Intel).
Written expressly for visual artists, GYST is a database program to help artists keep track of their artwork, business aspects, proposals, mailing lists, etc. It also includes tons of information on every aspect of an artists' career, including over 200 web links and resources for additional perspectives on business aspects of the arts.
GYST | Getting Your Shit Together's Details
Status:
In a Relationship
Here for:
Networking, Friends
Zodiac Sign:
Capricorn
Education:
Grad / professional school
Occupation:
www.gyst-ink.com
GYST | Getting Your Shit Together's Schools
California Institute Of The Arts
Valencia, CA
Graduated: N/A
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Professional
Major: Studio Art, Professional Practices
1980 to Present
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About me: VISIT OUR BLOG.
GYST: Getting Your Sh*t Together is an artist run company that applies the creativity of an artist's mind to the complex and daunting world of professional practices in contemporary art. Our mission is to support artists and arts organizations with an integrated mix of software, services and information in order to keep artists working. Founded in 2000 by Karen Atkinson as a software company, GYST's products and services now include professional practices software, a newsletter, workshops, artist resume and statement review, archiving, and consulting services.
GYST got its start in the late 1990's, Karen Atkinson used her knowledge as a media, installation, public artist, independent curator, CalArts professor, grant writer and collaborator to create one of the first professional practices course for artists in the country called Getting Your Sh*t Together. Taught at both CalArts (Valencia, CA) and Side Street Projects (Pasadena, CA), artists came from as far away as San Diego to attend a ten-week workshop. Originally, an eight hundred-page binder containing twenty years of collected resources was given to each attending student. In response to the success of the course, GYST was founded and created GYST v1.0, for MAC & PC, which included over five hundred pages of professional practices resources culled from over twenty years of lectures, resources, and teaching experience.
Since 2006, GYST has been rapidly expanding by bringing on four new team members, updating our computer software to v.2.8 for MAC & PC, building a new website, offering new products and services that are a direct response to the artist community at large.
You can now try GYST 2.8 FOR FREE by downloading it at :
GYST-INK.COM
GYST-Ink maintains ARTISTs* AT WORK, a dynamic blog which includes articles about professional practices, information, checklists, and columns about artists who run their own businesses. VISIT THE BLOG AT GYST-INK.COM/BLOG
Our team now consists of the President/Founder (Karen Atkinson), Marketing Manager (Tucker Neel), Internet Technology Manager (Jean Hester), Business Advisor (Ari Kletzky), and Office Manager (Ashley-Martin Dunn). There is also a range of other arts professionals from grant writing and gallery management experts to lawyers that are part of the GYST extended network. This dynamic team of professional artists enables GYST to expand our national mission to provide tangible professional practices information and resources to contemporary artists through various support services in order to keep artists working.
All kinds of artists, including students and art school graduates, self-taught artists, young and older artists, emerging and established artists benefit creatively, personally and professionally from having an organized and directed professional life. We believe that creating artwork and having business skills go hand-in-hand in order to avoid pitfalls, heartbreak and botched opportunities and are committed to supporting artists and arts organizations.
For further information on the GSYT Team visit GYST-INK.COM
Who I'd like to meet: Organized and unorganized artists of all disciplines, art professors, aspiring artists, established artists, aging artist, and art supporters!
